Lots of people dislike "Ender's Game". I recall james_nicoll saying as much recently.
I liked it when I read it, and eventually chalked up the disturbing aspects of it to conscious "Starship Troopers" homage. Note also that while I'm sure he always had the thing about gayness, Card seems to have gradually drifted further into right-wing nutbag territory over time; I have vague memories that back in the Eighties some of what he wrote sounded like centrist critiques of Reaganism.
A few years back I read the long-delayed second volume of his collection of good stories of the Eighties, Future on Ice. His introductory material was absurdly cranky, consisting of equal parts excoriation of the cyberpunks and excoriation of Bill Clinton. I can certainly understand the drive to bash a US president you don't like, but doing it in a collection of stories explicitly selected from a decade in which he was not president is a little odd. Bashing the cyberpunks at least did have something to do with the 1980s, though, as Gardner Dozois remarked, it seemed like a sad reenactment of a battle that nobody could remember the reasons for any more.
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I liked it when I read it, and eventually chalked up the disturbing aspects of it to conscious "Starship Troopers" homage. Note also that while I'm sure he always had the thing about gayness, Card seems to have gradually drifted further into right-wing nutbag territory over time; I have vague memories that back in the Eighties some of what he wrote sounded like centrist critiques of Reaganism.
A few years back I read the long-delayed second volume of his collection of good stories of the Eighties, Future on Ice. His introductory material was absurdly cranky, consisting of equal parts excoriation of the cyberpunks and excoriation of Bill Clinton. I can certainly understand the drive to bash a US president you don't like, but doing it in a collection of stories explicitly selected from a decade in which he was not president is a little odd. Bashing the cyberpunks at least did have something to do with the 1980s, though, as Gardner Dozois remarked, it seemed like a sad reenactment of a battle that nobody could remember the reasons for any more.