Out of Pod Experience

Which nearby universe are you living in ?

This upcoming release is the first of the series to have such.

The last part is what makes the book unique.

Ah. Now I follow you.


Gone with the Wind ? The Shining ? Harry Potter Films? Clockwork Orange ? Wizard of Oz (1939) ? War of the World ? Contact ? Dune (Syfy Mini) ? Cloud Atlas ? The Handmaid's Tale ?

I can go on..........

Card has done a "Spider Robinson;" gone completely certifiable bonkers. He used write well, then got preachy... I can live with that. Heinlein did it, and whilst it was annoying, you could kinda filter it out. But where he is now? No thanks. None of my $$, either.

I really had liked Card's novel "SongMaster" back around 1980. Upon a recent perusal, it contains a really really disturbing anti-gay subtext.

It was already there.

Early post-Venice Film Fest Comments for "Gravity":

""At once the most realistic and beautifully choreographed film ever set in space, Gravity is a thrillingly realized survival story spiked with interludes of breath-catching tension and startling surprise."

"........while Bullock is aces in by far the best film she's ever been in."

""As scripted by Cuaron and his son Jonas, this tale of one woman's grim expedition into the unknown is a nerve-shredding suspenser, a daring study in extreme isolation, and one of the most sophisticated and enveloping visions of space travel yet realized onscreen."

"...a howl in the wilderness that sucks the breath from your lungs. It comes blowing in from the ether like some weightless black nightmare, hanging planet Earth at crazy angles behind the action."

".....the director’s long-overdue follow-up to “Children of Men” is at once a nervy experiment in blockbuster minimalism and a film of robust movie-movie thrills, restoring a sense of wonder, terror and possibility to the bigscreen that should inspire awe among critics and audiences worldwide."

"Somewhere, one imagines, the spirits of Stanley Kubrick and Max Ophuls are looking down in admiration."

I don't see the big deal about him being anti-gay marriage. Just about a billion other people are anti-gay marriage too. Just what the author's opinions about certain issues have to do with his book that has nothing to do with said issues is a mystery to me. Now this boycott of the film and such by the pro-gay marriage team is just ridiculous and hypocritical. Let the man believe what he wants to believe. Sure, he's a **** but who cares? Why is it such a big deal?

I'm not going to give him a dime so he can use it to defend things like California Prop 8 again.

Many others will.

That's your choice to make, but it's just his opinion. It's not like he's running for president and plans to ban gay marriage or anything. Am I missing something? What if the boss of CCP were anti-gay marriage? Would you stop playing Eve? How does his opinion on the subject affect your life? That's what I'm getting at. Is the movie going to be homophobic? I seriously doubt it, as the book doesn't even get close to the subject. I'm pro-gay marriage, but if I wrote a movie that had nothing to do with it, how would it affect people who were anti-gay marriage?

I dunno, the book just seemed a little meh. Of course it's just my opinion, but having heard so many people rant and rave about it, I was rather disappointed. Maybe I was expecting too much. Maybe I should've read it in 1984 when I was 6 years old. Ok, the twist (if you want to call it that) was interesting and inventive, but I had already figured it out by the time I got there.

Just as there are requirements for having one's criticisms taken seriously, there are also requirements for having one's praises taken seriously.

So you would stop enjoying something you enjoy because the creator has a different set of values than you, even when it wouldn't affect your life in any way? Why? Don't you think that's a little hypocritical? That's something right out of the Republican Party playbook.

What's he going to do with the millions he'll make off of it...buy a new house and a new car and invest it, right? You act like he will be able to wield giant anti-gay armies capable of taking Glee off the air and preventing gay marriage in certain states. He's a science fiction writer whose skill is debatable, and he's an arrogant tool. He's not a threat. He's not Chick Fil A, who are owned by a multinational conglomerate and whose toxic attitude towards equality REALLY CAN affect the political landscape with lobbying.

I'm pro-gay marriage, but if a band I like isn't pro-gay marriage, I'm not going to stop listening to them. That's some PMRC mentality right there. That's the road to censorship and, ironically, intolerance.

Furthermore, if you're boycotting him solely over Prop 8, MOVE OUT OF CALIFORNIA. Orson Scott Card isn't keeping you from getting gay married; the state of California would be. Do you really wanna live in California anyway?