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Rate Nat'l Organization for Marriage Just Keeps Adding the Crazies

Original at Queerty external link    Wed, Apr 22

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 NY Then how about NOM chief Maggie Gallagher welcoming her hatred equal Orson Scott Card, who just joined the organization's board. Who's Card, you ask? He's the science fiction writer and Mormon Times columnist filled with idiot logic. ...

Rate Orson Scott Card goes YA steampunk

Original at Crows Nest external link    Fri, Mar 6

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. He recently began a long term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. Card currently lives in Greensboro, ...

Rate Orson Scott Card Signs with Simon Pulse

Original at Publishers Weekly external link    Thu, Mar 5

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 NY When Card’s iconic Ender’s Game came out in 1985, she said, “the teen market didn’t exist” to the extent it does now. Card also has a daughter who is “about the right age,” Bova said, “which may have inspired him” to go in this direction. ...

Rate Petersen No Longer Involved in Ender’s Game

Original at Screenhead external link    Wed, Jan 7

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By Hollywood Speaking to The Los Angeles Times, sci-fi author Orson Scott Card revealed that Wolfgang Petersen is no longer attached to direct the big-screen adaptation of the author’s sci-fi novel classic Ender’s Game. Card disclosed that he did not feel comfortable with the movie’s direction and...

Rate How Orson Scott Card Sees Ender's Game Game

Original at Kotaku.com external link    Wed, Dec 24

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MTV.com  NY - The Ender’s Game games will immerse you in the experience of different aspects of the life of these kids who train together in order to fight the war. ... Orson Scott Card Has Ambitious Dreams For ‘Ender’s Game’ Video Games MTV.com Une ITW d’Orson Scott Card Actusf

Rate Ender in Exile, by Orson Scott Card

Original at John's external link    Tue, Dec 23

Embarrassing but true: I'm still a sucker for books in the Ender's Game "series." I know it's an artifice to put that in quotes, but I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about. Look, I know Card is totally bonkers, and I know not only how each story is ...

Rate Ender in Exile / Orson Scott Card

Original at SF Reviews.Net external link    Mon, Dec 8

Card reboots the Ender saga yet again, without nearly the success of 1998's "Ender's Shadow". This book is the tale of Ender's trek to his first colony world with his sister Valentine. Not bad for much of its length. But the story too often favors melodrama over drama, paints Ender as a Christ f...

Rate Shadow of the Hegemon / Orson Scott Card

Original at SF Reviews.Net external link    Mon, Dec 8

Card follows his surprisingly successful "Ender's Shadow" with this sequel, which reads mostly like a straightforward action-adventure and military thriller. Enjoyable, but mostly on a superficial level, and not always a smooth ride when it comes to plausibility. (***)

Rate An Interview with Author Orson Scott Card

Original at Blogcritics external link    Tue, Nov 25

By Fitz A while back, Orson Scott Card was kind enough to leave a comment on one of my posts about his story "Stonefather" (released recently in novella form). We had a short e-mail conversation after that and he graciously agreed to let me interview him.Orson Scott Card is the author of such importa...

Rate What A Card: Honesty, it's such a lonely word

Original at What A Card external link    Tue, Nov 25

11/08: Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card (Not great, but tied up some lose ends. Felt more like some cobbled together short stories.) 11/08: Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser (Enjoyable!) 11/08: Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. ...

Rate cougartex: What If Prop 8 Lost?

Original at cougartex external link    Sat, Nov 22

I was reading this from Orson Scott Card tonight and it prompted the question: What if Prop 8 lost? Citing Helaman 16:20-21, Card had this insight about the "No on 8" crowd:. Their story is that we Mormons somehow oppress them and force ...

Rate A Sunday Review

Original at realtegan (Blogspot) external link    Sun, Oct 26

By Tegan The intro to "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card convinced me that I don't want to read any more books or stories by Card (it was the longest of the intros and made him sound like a bombastic self-absorbed moron). ...

Rate Ender's Mortgage

Original at National Review Online Blogs external link    Thu, Oct 23

Who'd have thought Orson Scott Card would turn out to be the voice of reason on the housing meltdown? Card, in a piece headlined, "Would the Last Hone... . . .

Rate Dork Calling Orson

Original at Sadly, No! external link    Wed, Oct 22

By D. Aristophanes Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights? By Orson Scott Card Damn that other party! Damn them straight to Mormon hell! Card doesn’t list all the rules that were loosened by Republicans, but here’s a nice summation. Mr. Card?

Rate Confederate Yankee: Orson Scott Card <em>Rips</em> the MSM

Original at Confederate Yankee external link    Mon, Oct 20

Card is a nut by the way....have you read Ender's Game?, one of the greatest Science Fiction Novel's ever, and I mean ever, but you'd have to be a little crazy and a lot brilliant to write it. As far as Obama and his supporters, ...

Rate Opinion: “A Short Response to Richard Packham’s ‘A Response to Orson Scott Card’s article: Book of Mormon: Artifact or Artifice?’” by grego

Original at Book of Mormon Notes external link    Fri, Sep 12

By grego “A Short Response to Richard Packham’s ‘A Response to Orson Scott Card’s article: Book of Mormon: Artifact or Artifice?’” Card has not read his Book of Mormon very carefully: He should look up “chariots” in the index.” I’ll close with this quote from Brigham Young:

Rate Inside Joke Theatre - Randy Lander's Blog: Orson Scott Card ...

Original at Inside Joke Theatre external link    Sun, Aug 24

By Randy I'm going to figure out what my profits are on the issues of Ender's Game, and when the miniseries is complete, I'm gonna write out a check to a Gay Rights charity here in Austin, and then I'm going to send a nice note to Mr. Card ...

Rate Orson Scott Card is a homophobe

Original at tangentspace.net external link    Wed, Aug 13

By Alex I’ve been silent for a long time, but after reading about Orson Scott Card’s ridiculous position on gay marriage, I feel compelled to say something. Like, wtf would Ender or Bean say? Did you think about that Mr. Card? ...

Year 2007

 

Rate New ParentDish Feature: What are your kids reading?

Original at Blogging Baby external link    Wed, May 2

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By Jen Creer My oldest son has been eating Orson Scott Card books lately. He started with Ender's Game, and I think he has read at least seven Card novels in the past two weeks. It's hard to keep up with what he has read.

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