With a movie adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s popular novel Ender’s Game being released soon, QUILTBAG individuals have spoken out to challenge potential viewers to consider whether they really want to give money to Card, considering the hateful things he has said about QUILTBAG people, and the anti-equality causes he has financially supported. Like many others, I was intrigued by Ender’s Game and its sequels as a teenager, but drifted away from sci-fi and fantasy over the years. I actually first realized that I had problems with the way Card’s approach to religion in a separate book, Pastwatch, reveals an underlying tendency to objectify others. Today, when I look back on that book as a Pagan, I find a disturbing similarity in the fundamental reasoning for the two problems to stem from a single root.
CAUTION: SPOILERS for Pastwatch are ahead.
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I didn't know he was still writing, read a few of the Alvin Maker books back when.
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Thank you for this. Pastwatch is the only book I've ever torn to shreds after reading. I was particularly incensed by his assert
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When it comes to time-traveler-deliberately-changing-history stories, I highly recommend Jane Yolen's "The Traveler and the Tale"
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I may be hopelessly naive but "QUILTBAG"? I am not familiar with this idiom.
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I thought I had introduced this before, but maybe I should have linked. QUILTBAG is an expanded LGBT acronym - queer/questioning,