I've been a fan of Card's since the short story "Songhouse" and the subsequent novel
Songmaster (which, oddly enough, featured a sympathetically portrayed gay male character). But I do find his current non-fiction writings a bit hard to stomach.
As for Rowling's lawsuit, I originally thought it was over the top, but as I now understand it, even Steve Van der Ark didn't intend to publish the book as it finally went to press-- a list of uncited quotations. It looks like his publisher was trying to make a fast buck using his name (as the author/maintainer of the HP Lexicon website). An unfortunate business all around.
