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Enter the Octopus asks: So, is Orson Scott Card off your reading lists, or what? My title answers the question, but not for the obvious reasons…
Quite simply, Scott Card’s work has gone from brilliant to awful so precipitously that I really do wonder if perhaps Ender’s Game was a very lucky stroke. Or perhaps Card has become more religious as he’s grown older, and that is what has led to the deterioration of his writing ability.
Any way around, Empire was so bad that I won’t read another book by him. Interestingly, it was bad because it indulged in right-wing paranoid delusions about Progressives. The book pained a picture of human behavior that was so at odds of what I know human behavior to be that I simply couldn’t believe anyone had been paid to write it.
Ah well. We’ll always have Ender’s Game…