Anyone of you read OSC's Los Angeles Times commentary on Star Trek? Some copies are still floating around.
What do you guys think? I don't know, guys. I think the Ender Quartet are still the best novels I've ever read, and I've gone to several OSC book signings already and admire OSC's card writing style and his talent for characterization, but more and more do I as a fan feel out of touch with him.
The Shadow quartet doesn't come even close to Ender Quartet, heck, I didn't even enjoy reading them. The explosion of other EG-based novels that OSC has published within the last few years, just to ride on EG's success is ruining the Enderverse. The announcement to make an Ender's Game Christmas Story... puh-lease! Let's stop the madness! I understand that OSC needs to earn money and I have no right to tell him what to do, but I totally feel like OSC is trying to squeeze every single drop of water from EG's huge success and am feeling more and more "cheated on" as an EG-fan.
And now his last commentary on why Star Trek: The Original Series totally sucked. I don't know, guys. Sure, ST:TOS has some really bad acting, cheesy props and what not, and the storylines might seem like clichee now, but back then it was revolutionary. ST:TOS is what has defined Science Fiction as we know it now. ST:TOS, a "a throwback to spaceship adventure stories with little regard for science or deeper ideas."? I am sorry, Mr. Card, call this ST: DS9, but from all the series not ST:TOS. I don't think ST:TOS is a great series (I think TNG is the crown of all Sci-Fi series), but in all honesty, I can't say that TOS lacks deeper thoughts and is all about adventures, shooting and special effects.
Sorry for the little rant. These are my thoughts, what are yours?
Minh T. Nguyen.
PS: Read this as well: http://www.syfyportal.com/features.php?id=122