> -----Original Message----- > From: Ronn!Blankenship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:58 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: RE: Science Fiction In General... > > > At 11:51 AM 12/22/03, Horn, John wrote: > >It gets a bit preachy but that's to be expected from OSC. > > > > Well, what do you expect when he only gets to preach for real > on the fourth > Sunday of every month, and then only on a topic that's > assigned to him, and > that only for about twenty minutes?
You mean Fast Sunday? Why only the last Sunday of the month? http://www.hatrack.com/research/student-papers/porschet.shtml "Card has won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1986 for Ender's Game and in 1987 for its sequel,Speaker for the Dead. To this day he is the only author to win these prestigious awards in two consecutive years. Card has lived in California, Utah, and Arizona. He served a two year mission in Brazil for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Card is a very dedicated member of the Mormon church and serves as a Sunday school teacher in his ward. " And it continues on... "The majority of Card's writing has an emphasis on Mormonism, whether it is talked about in his story, or whether it is just recognized by Mormon readers; it is there. In Card's Homecoming Saga (The Memory of Earth, The Call of Earth, The Ships of Earth, Earthfall, Earthborn), he tells the story of the Book of Mormon. The main character in the Alvin Maker series is obviously, to any member of the Mormon church, modeled after Joseph Smith. The family in this series (Seventh Son, Red Prophet, Prentice Alvin, Alvin Journeyman) moves away from Vermont because of bad farm land. Joseph Smith's family left Vermont for the same reason(Porschet). In Seventh Son, the main character, Alvin has a leg operation at about the same age Joseph Smith was when he had a similar leg operation. The account of this operation is recorded by Joseph's mother, Lucy Mack Smith (Smith 54). The Alvin Maker series is a combination of American history, Mormon history, and folk magic. In a personal letter that I received from Orson Scott Card regarding what influenced his writing style, vision, and genre the most, he said: "...the culture that created me was a mixture of my family, the LDS church... the public culture of America in that era (as expressed through television, radio, news, prevailing public views and issues), and the culture of Santa Clara and Mesa in particular, especially of the educational system in those two cities..." " I read book 1 and 2 of the Homecoming series, and came to the same conclusion - it's clearly influenced by the Book of Mormon. Nerd From behind the Zion Curtain > > > > From the collection "Hymns We Would Actually Sing": > > "Come listen to a high councilor drone, And try to stay > awake, It's good he speaks just once a month, 'Cuz that's all > that we can take. He's given the same talk so many times That > even he is bored, If I cannot keep my eyes open I just hope I > will not snore." > > > > -- Ronn! :) > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
