@mxchara
If only Orson Scott Card wasn't such a total bastard! But as things stand, I'm glad he lost his gift for writing.

@Quasit he's a sinister figure in my own head, the creator of a fascist mythology that's extremely tempting. now I'm curious about his previous writings, before he went down the "Ender's Game" abyss.

@mxchara
I'd suggest trying "A Planet Called Treason" (1979). It's pretty good. Please note that Card rewrote and expanded it as "Treason" (1988), ruining it in the process. But even the original includes some of Card's...•odd• attitudes about homosexuality.

"Songmaster" (1980) is also powerful and compelling. But Card dials up his weirdness about gays several notches higher.

After "Ender's Game" (1985) and possibly "Speaker For The Dead"(1986), Card just descended into his own madness, repeating his schtick of creepily precocious genius children with incestuous overtones and nasty representations of homosexuality as a mental illness. His talent is gone.

Good riddance.

Edit: What the hell, I'll make this my daily recommendation. I'm too tired to work up another one.

"A Planet Called Treason" can be borrowed from the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/planetcalledtrea00card

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