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Fumesucker

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3. That narrows his change down date wise

Reply to Exultant Democracy (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 2, 2013, 06:10 PM

Jan 2013

In his 1996 novel Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, Card tells a remarkably humanistic and liberal story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastwatch:_The_Redemption_of_Christopher_Columbus

And Empire was published in 2006.

I'm starting think that 9/11 may have been the trigger for his sharp change in attitude and tone.

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Orson Scott Card Has Always Been an Asshat [View all] haikugal Jan 2013 OP

No, Card wasn't always a fascist Fumesucker Jan 2013 #1

I remember hearing that sometime in the late 80s Codeine Jan 2013 #5

The Card of today would have never written the Songmaster. Exultant Democracy Jan 2013 #2

That narrows his change down date wise Fumesucker Jan 2013 #3

Nope - he was over the edge well before that. mzteris Jan 2013 #4

I also get a feeling from some of his more homophobic Exultant Democracy Jan 2013 #6

Just read the book jambo101 Jan 2013 #7

Agree with the previous poster Moe Shinola Mar 2013 #8