Orson Scott Card is an Asshat

[mburbank]

Okay, this is a close to religous prejudice as you're ever going to hear me get.

Ready?

Orson is a Mormon. Anyone familliar with their belief system?

In addition;

He writes series sci fi. Not 'trilogies'. Not a single multi-book series. He writes franchises.

He also likes himself better than any sci fi writer since Ellison, and for my money he nevr wrote anything as good.

He is a genre writer on the level of Stephen King. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I've read a lot of both of them, and enjoyed them. In paper back they both give a fine return on the dollar.

But King doesn't present himself as anything but a good storyteller. Orson thinks the light of the universe shiones out his bung whenever he bends over.

On the other hand, I'm rather enjoying his Iron Man comic book. Or I will be until about the fifth issue when he inevitably starts with the irritating "I bet you never spent a lt of time really thinking deep religous thoughts like me" psuedo-Mormon ideology into it.

In short, there is no need at all to take anything this guy says with even the faintest degree of seriousness. There's nothing wromng with being a good pulp writer. There is a whole lot wrong with being a good pulp writer with delusions of grandeur. That's what got us Scientology.