That's a good way of putting it. For all his flaws, Card is an actual writer. Many of his contemporaries never were. Of course, there's legitimate literate sci

That's a good way of putting it. For all his flaws, Card is an actual writer. Many of his contemporaries never were. Of course, there's legitimate literate science fiction out there that's among the best literature of the century. Frank Herbert and Philip Dick are going to be known as some of the greatest forces in writing; Isaac Asimov wasn't a brilliant prosist but conceptually he was in a league of his own.