Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card is a raging homophobe, Mormon and more recently just a plain bat-shit crazy, racist ant-Obama nut. With all that furor it's hard not to inject the author into the story.

All this on the heels of the imminent movie release of Ender's Game (which prompted my reading) and the recent furor surrounding his potentially penning a Superman story arc for DC.

As a result I couldn't help read this as some metaphoric homophobe rant against the gay scourge. I mean he names the scary, alien species “buggers”. Then there's the nod to the Mormon afterlife wherein the heros “acquire” their own planet. All that's missing is magic underwear and Joseph Smith.

All that to say it's a lot more fun to read it as a LDS screed than a more literal reading about the cycle of abuse, the futility and falseness of honest communication, the abstraction of war and the loss of innocence.

You know what, forget all that. It's a great read and I hope the movie does a good job of translating it to the big screen.