I read Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide sometime in the late 80's or early 90's and probably got them from a friend, or the library. Probably the library, since that is where I got most of my reading back then.
I enjoyed those books, and some short story collections. Obviously, since this was before the internet was much help, I knew nothing about Card's religion. Its entirely possible I had never heard of the Mormon church at that point in my life - since it was a completely new thing to me when I emigrated to the United States in 1986.
What I do remember is noticing that he had this habit of writing about boys, most of his protagonists were young men. And some of the situations that he portrayed made me thing that he was gay, and not only gay, but rather enamored of children. I certainly wasn't being swayed by anything I read about Card himself (all I had read was his books and whatever was on the back of the jacket). But there you have it, in the absence of any information about the man, I was convinced that he was a member of NAMBLA.
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I enjoyed those books, and some short story collections. Obviously, since this was before the internet was much help, I knew nothing about Card's religion. Its entirely possible I had never heard of the Mormon church at that point in my life - since it was a completely new thing to me when I emigrated to the United States in 1986.
What I do remember is noticing that he had this habit of writing about boys, most of his protagonists were young men. And some of the situations that he portrayed made me thing that he was gay, and not only gay, but rather enamored of children. I certainly wasn't being swayed by anything I read about Card himself (all I had read was his books and whatever was on the back of the jacket). But there you have it, in the absence of any information about the man, I was convinced that he was a member of NAMBLA.
It was rather a shock that he was so anti-gay.