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Over the last few weeks, the Internet has been abuzz with sci-fi fan reaction to writer OrsonScott Card's most recent posts for the Mormon Times ( Science on gays falls short and State job is not to redefine marriage ) about homosexuality and gay marriage. Though he has been outspoken on the issue of homosexuality as far back as 1990 , it has only recently attracted great attention....
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I somehow missed this line when I posted about OrsonScott Card's astonishingly idiotic screed about gay marriage, but Andrew Sullivan noticed it. How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it...
Can an author's opinion ruin the fiction he produced? For Wired's GeekDad blog , it can. Especially if the author has outed himself as a disgusting homophobe of the worst kind: Now it's two decades later, and OrsonScott Card has written a strongly anti-gay screed that goes so far as to propose active rebellion to ensure that marriage is legally defined to his liking. Like many others...
Looks like scifi writer OrsonScott Card can now add a Malkin award to his Hugo and Nebula awards. "Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children...
OrsonScott Card , via Sully (can’t help it): If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die,” The more anti-gay activists realize that their wishes aren’t Constitutional, the happier I’ll be. [...]
Science Fiction writer OrsonScott Card is best known for his Ender books, a series centered on children recruited to fight an interstellar war against invading Buggers led by Queens. From The Mormon Times: How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to [...]
At the end of sacrament meeting last Sunday, the bishop says, "Next week, our ward and the Colfax Ward will be meeting together. Sacrament meeting will begin at 1 p.m. That will be our only meeting, so don't prepare lessons for quorum and auxiliary meetings."
Science fiction writer and devout Mormon OrsonScott Card would rather overthrow the government than live in a country that accepts gay marriage: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it [...]
You’ve seen it in Entertainment Weekly, now get your first look behind the scenes of Ender’s Game in the ENDER’S GAME SKETCHBOOK, courtesy of Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! Click over to http://marvel.com/digitalcomics/titles/Ender%7Eapos%7Es_Game_Sketchbook.2008.1 and get your look at the creative process behind the graphic fiction adaption of OrsonScott Card’s award winning novel!...
This is so batshit insane, even OrsonScott Card has got to be saying to himself, “wow, that’s more batshit insane than the batshit insane thoughts that course through my batshit insane brain!” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans today to announce an unusual marketing pitch to the U.S. government: Rent us space on [...]
SF/fantasy editor Edmund R. Schubert told SCI FI Wire that his new anthology, OrsonScott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, collects a selection of stories from the first four issues of the webzine of the same name, which is edited by Schubert and was founded and is published by SF author OrsonScott Card.
... Neil Gaiman voices the introduction to Fritz Leiber's classic Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser stories. OrsonScott Card explains how Ray Bradbury makes the ordinary extraordinary in Something Wicked This Way Comes . This month's guest editor is S. M. Stirling . Fans of Christopher Paolini's Inheritance books may be interested in the online game Vroengard Academy and the current sweepstakes...
One Writer, One World, One Darkened AlleyThursday, August 14, 2008Advertisin'! Now this is an attack ad:posted by Demosthenes at | About Me Name: Demosthenes A political blogger using a pseudonym inspired by both the historical orator and OrsonScott Card's use of pseudonyms in the "Ender's Game" books. For more, . No further connection to Card's work is expressed or implied.Previous...
There is no gap whatsoever between the stories of Xenocide and its successor, Children of the Mind . The latter picks up the story exactly where the former left off. But between the books there was a five-year lag in the real world. Xenocide came out in 1991 and Children of the Mind in 1996. Why would that be?--especially when, as OrsonScott Card explains in an afterword to the audio...
