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At a time where pretty much the whole of the SF community is debating whether or not to boycott the film Enders Game due to the virulant homophobia of author Orson Scott Card, this very personal history by Rany Jazayerli is well worth reading.

He paints a picture of a man of humanity and empathy who wrote “Enders Game” and it’s sequel “Speaker for the Dead”, who subsequently lost his mind in the aftermath of America’s national trauma of 9/11.

Since then Card has spend the last decade wandering deeper and deeper into the toxic swamp of far-right conspiracy theories, of which the aggressive homophobia is but the tip of the iceberg. In many ways, he’s not the same man who wrote those novels all those years ago.

If you’re debating whether to see or to boycott the film, then read Rany Jazayerli’s piece before making up your mind.