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Yes, I will be seeing Ender’s Game this weekend. Yes I realize Orson Scott Card is a homophobic bag of dicks.

He’s not getting a dime from the movie box office.

Of course he’ll make money as book sales are going up. But, it’s one of my probably two favorite books of all time (The Other being Canticle for Leibowitz). It’s a book I reread maybe once a decade and that I give some credit for helping me survive being a teen. It’s a book I unreservedly recommend to anyone.

You can be an asshole and still write great books.

I’ve been looking forward to this movie for years. I didn’t think it would ever be made, honestly.

And if this movie tanks, Orson Scott Card will still be in more or less the same position as he was at the start. Others might not be, though. Asa Butterfield is still up and coming as far as Hollywood is concerned. If the movie does poorly that might stall his career. And there are a helluva lot more people involved with this movie.

Card had no creative control. So that means Gavin Hood (who directed and wrote the screenplay) put up Ender’s Game the way he saw it.

Frankly I was shocked when I found out how much of a raging homophobe Card is; most of his books don’t show that. I think as he’s gotten older he’s gotten more rigid and curmudgeonly.

You can send me hate if you want, call me wrong. You’re entitled to your opinion as well as anyone else. Still seeing the movie this weekend.

Orson Scott Card accuses Obama of preparing to set up a dictatorship

http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2013-05-09-1.html

Holy crap this article. Now, he pretends to couch it as “Just a thought experiment,” but then goes on to compare Obama to both Neville Chamberlain and Augustus Cesear (!)

Oh and then later in the article talks about how Obama will use “young urban men” to form his police state army

“But it sure sounds plausible, doesn’t it? Because, like a good fiction writer, I made sure this scenario fit the facts we already have – the way Obama already acts, the way his supporters act, and the way dictators have come to power in republics in the past.

Just keep your head down, and you’ll be OK. Unless your children repeat at school things you said in the privacy of your home. Unless an Obama crony wants your house or your job. Unless you tell the wrong joke to the wrong people. Unless you have already written or said dangerous things that will come back to get you shot trying to avoid arrest …

Just kidding. Because if I really believed this stuff, would I actually write this essay?”

Yeah. I don’t believe you think this entirely made up. Seen to much other stuff from Card’s mind of late. And that’s not even going into his anti-homosexual stuff.

Look, Ender’s Game is a brilliant book and one of my favorites. I’ll see the movie. But I’m pretty sure the author has long since jumped off the deep end.