[ SECRET POST #3267 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3267 ⌋

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Comments

[a_potato]

I can partially understand this, because I'll fully admit that my immediate internal reaction to seeing Orson Scott Card's name is...unpleasant.

However, his liking a work, or an author, does not change the content of the work or the character of the author (I get the feeling you realize this, or this wouldn't be a secret, but I still think it's worth saying).

[(Anonymous)]

An awful person liking something doesn't make that thing awful, no. But the publicists deciding that that's the review they want to promote their stuff with is a bit of a red flag.

[a_potato]

Not necessarily. Orson Scott Card is still a famous author whose works continue to sell well, so I think it's more of a pragmatic decision that an ideological one. A lot of readers aren't concerned with what Card thinks so much as with the fact that he's the guy who wrote 'Ender's Game,' and a positive review from him makes them more likely to buy.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't be silly, a red flag how? The people who make these decisions don't choose who gets a quote based on politics or the past behavior of an author. They base it on popularity and who sells books. Like him or hate him, Orson Scott Card is a huge name in SF and continues to be. Very few editors or publicists would turn down a blurb from him based on his fame alone.