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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Huh. From that OSC link:
When I have a gay character in my fiction, I say so right in the book. I don't wait until after it has had all its initial sales to mention it.
Does Card actually have gay characters in his books? How does he treat them? I admit I've never read anything by him (I missed Ender's Game during those crucial high school years), but I just assumed that his books would reflect his anti-gay stance by not including any gay characters.
Man, I kind of miss those old Harlequin Presents now. Ah, innocent 18 year old secretaries who fall under the spell of their (always swarthy) much-older alpha male boss (secret baby subplot optional).
Looks like Presents is still offering those, although with more glitz, and so is Harlequin Romance. Her Skeikh Boss! His Pregnant Housekeeper!
they may be selling, but I am not buying, no matter how huge my Penny Jordan collection was at 13. Things scarred me for life.
It amazes me that they're still so popular. Presents and Romance are virtually the same line. I think the only differences may be length and degree of on-camera sex.
they may be selling, but I am not buying, no matter how huge my Penny Jordan collection was at 13. Things scarred me for life.
She was the Harlequin author I had a huge collection of too!
Her books were like crack! Patriarchy-addled, colonialist-approved crack, but crack just the same.
I can't recall an openly gay character in an OSC book, no.
I remember one. He revealed his gayness by trembling with desire when helping a (male) child character change his clothes. Don't remember if he was merely fired or executed.
I think it was in Wyrms. At any rate it was in the same novel in which a female child character revealed the depth of her evil while being raped.
Does Card actually have gay characters in his books? How does he treat them? I admit I've never read anything by him (I missed Ender's Game during those crucial high school years), but I just assumed that his books would reflect his anti-gay stance by not including any gay characters.
Yeah, I was wondering that, too.
I should never ever read OSC's opinions on anything. I try not to let it detract from my enjoyment of his fiction, but it's hard.
It pains me that he's a family friend.
Does Card actually have gay characters in his books? How does he treat them?
He was all the rage in the SF circles I frequented back in the day -- it was in NC, and he was winning all sorts of awards while living in Greensboro. I don't remember the subject coming up in his work or otherwise then.
On the other hand, I haven't read everything he wrote.