Today I finished The New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott, which was excellent. Sort of a Flannery O’Connor meets Philip K. Dick meets George Saunders experience. Glowing recommendation.
Just now I started Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov.
Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card. Read it a few years back and loved it. However, nowadays I’m seeing a lot of people online saying it’s “sexist” or that “Ender is Hitler”. This isn’t a new thing, but it’s something I’ve only recently really noticed or paid attention to. Anyway, I’m going to read Speaker again to see for myself if any of these seemingly ludicrous claims actually hold any water.
I believe the backlash against Card has more to do with comments that he’s made in the media recently than with any particular work of his.