spring reading

[reddressgnome]

The CarpetMakers is a translation from German, written by Andreas Eschbach and endorsed by Orson Scott Card. I don't actually think I've read anything by OSC; if i did it was a long time ago, but he's definitely a big name in Sci Fi, so I picked up this book. It's good, along the lines of Ursula LeGuin, who I adore. It's fairly poetic, and I'm not

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[inthane]

Orson Scott Card is kind of famous in the sci-fi world. He wrote a really good story a long time ago (Ender's Game) which he really hasn't topped since. He's also a hard-core Mormon, and rabid neoconservative supporter; there was an essay he wrote where he referred to Islam as an evil religion IIRC - or words to that effect. He's since mellowed his statement a bit, but he's really off the deep end WRT the "war on terror" - thinks that genocide should be allowed, that the Democrats don't have a snowball's chance in Hell of doing right in this conflict, etc.

I can't find the original essay right now, but in poking around he seems to be pretty good at seeing what's going on, just missing the real point that those of us in opposition to the methods being used are making.

1491 was indeed an awesome book. Did you pick it up because of the Ars book thread?

[reddressgnome]

yup. but i think it's a bit ambitious as a reading club book. :p