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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
No, I understand that ... I justy wondered if Mormonism pervaded his fiction. I mean+to say, for example, that I like CS Lewis, but I know going in that I'm going to be slammed upside the head with Christian themes. Doesn't make it a bad read ... it's just that I prefer to be prepared before I pick up something that turns out to be religious propoganda in sci-fi/fantasy clothing.
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I would say that Mormonism does not pervade all of Card's fiction. In particular, most of the "Ender" books,
Songmaster,
Treason, and many of his other works make few or no references to Mormonism (and while there are references to Christianity, I don't think they are of a proselytizing nature).
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Originally Posted by elena
apropos, I'd like to make it clear that the Lexicon site is much more thant the Lexicon book would have been.
There is, off course, all the stuff quoted from the 7 books and the companion books, while Ark on his site accepted to paraphrase and to limit the direct quoting amount when asked to (contrary to what RDR did); but the site profited by the participation and the efforts of many people, plus the fans community, which added a lot of, say, creativity to the contents of the site in the shape of essays, researches, fan arts, pictures, theories, ecc.
All this stuff was not in the book: most of the authors who were asked for an opinion didn't like the idea of their work being commercially exploited.
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That's quite interesting. I had contributed some content to the Lexicon site several years ago, and wondered if that sort of content was intended to be included in the printed Lexicon. If none of that extended commentary was going to be included, I have to agree that there wasn't much original (or worthwhile) in the proposed book.
I'm glad Steve Van der Ark wasn't the one being sued. I hope everyone involved can move on from this now.