Funk Babblings

BTW, the gay marriage thing gives me another reason to wonder why so many people like Orson Scott Card so much.

Because he's one of the most brilliant science fiction authors out there. I'll grant that his column on gay marriage and the state of democracy was a diatribe worthy of Demosthenes in "Ender's Game." But the fact that I disagree with him politically does not negate his creativity. After having read many of his books, I was surprised to learn that he was Mormon. He does not shove his religion down readers' throats, unlike oh, say, Tracy Hickman. (I was a bit disturbed at how black and white good and evil were portrayed in "War of Souls.") In fact, with the exceptions of Jane Yolen and M.K. Wren, I think most of my favorite science fiction and fantasy authors are a bit "right" of my beliefs. I'm not quite sure why that is. The people who share my morals don't get my taste in literature, and the people who read what I do don't get my politics. Oh, well.