"What," I wondered, "is OSC up to?"

[james_davis_nicoll]

Not every question requires an answer.

Comments

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

"But I can't watch the mistreatment of children. I just can't."

hmm. iirc, mistreatment of children is not an uncommon event in a number of his stories.

[martin-wisse.livejournal.com]

That struck me as well. For somebody whose work (or at least his early work, like e.g. Songbird) regularly not only features child abuse, but _justified_ child abuse, this is an interesting confession to make.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Let's be fair: writing mistreatment of children and advocating mistreatment of children isn't watching mistreatment of children.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Ha. Beat me to noting that technicality.

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

Well, that may be the one thing I don't bash OSC for. I can't, either, and I wrote a child dead in a pogrom, once.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

There is a difference between "wrote a child dead ... once" and "many of my early works* focus the plot around explicit child abuse, often sexual.

* I stopped reading after the Mormonism-retold-as-American-fantasy books.

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

That's fair.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Which are the Mormonism retold as fantasy books? I've read the first three Ender books and a few of his short stories. And, yes, I plan to read them. I frequently engage with Mormon elders and managed to convert one to atheism. It helps to understand the worldview.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Are you thinking of the Alvin Maker books?

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

The Tales of Alvin Maker. IIRC I lost it when the protagonist turned a black person white.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Dearie, dearie me. And thank you.