I have always been a fan of good stories. I’m a huge fan of stories with happy endings, and especially when the story is the story of me. Well, aren’t you? Don’t you want a happy ending? One of my, scratch that. I think I can safely say, my favorite author is the amazing Orson Scott Card. It started for me, as like many others, with Ender’s Game. This quickly led to the rest of the Ender series. I remember eagerly awaiting the next book in the series. It continued with the Homecoming series and The Alvin Maker series. While I have not read all of his writings, I have read the majority. I dare say that it is obvious by the viewing my personal library that there are more books by Card than any other author.
Two things in particular that I like about Card is his way with characters. From Ender on, Card has wrapped me up in the characters in his stories. Then the stories themselves, though works of fiction mostly, are so rooted in reality and believable that you almost expect them to be true. His stories like Treasure Box and Empire based so firmly in today and the characters so much like you and me, that you expect them to really happen.
Card is amazing in the depth of his research for his books. This is one of the things that makes his writing so amazingly good. The wealth of knowledge and wisdom of human interaction that Card has attained, is equaled by very few. Whether his books are set in the present, the past or the future, Card is ‘spot on’ with his portrayal. This is another of the many things that fascinate me.
I was sent and article about a speech that Orson Scott Card gave recently, in which he talked about story telling. The story that Card tells, sadly is not Fiction. It is the story of America. More specifically, it is the story of the dismantling of America. No, not by the Republicans or the Democrats. Not by this left-wing fanatic or that right-wing liberal. No, the dismantling has not done by any political party of movement.
Card has built and destroyed many civilizations in his stories, including the recent Empire. Two recent notations on hatrack.com, the official Orson Scott Card website, confirm the depth to which Card understands people and society. So it is with great interest that I read the excerpt of his speech. If you think think you know about the dismantling of America, I encourage you to read his speech. If you are concerned with maintaining the American society as we have know it for over 200 years or if you are interested in building a new and better society, then I strongly encourage to you listen to the story that Orson Scot Card tells.
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