On a related note

[james_davis_nicoll]

What should go on a Top Ten "In retrospect, what the hell were we thinking" list of once-popular SF?

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[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

a belief I'd characterise as naive

A good way to show case this is that OSC's fiction is often less heavily soaked in his politics than say Pournelle's tends to be, despite OSC being genuinely crazier and more regressive (if such a thing is possible) than Pournelle.

Now an author's deep psychological issues tend to be a bit harder for them to control...

And please don't tell me he lives anywhere near Glasgow.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, Card still prefers a republic to a monarchy. Pournelle, it's harder to say.