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English
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Sacred Sci-Fi : Orson Scott Card as Mormon Mythmaker
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Sunstone
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March 2011
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162
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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52-59
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"Fantasy and science fiction can be used either to challenge and replace or to support and complement traditional religious mythologies. One author who has adopted the latter strategy is Mormon novelist Orson Scott Card. Literary critic Marek Oziewicz has found in Card's fictional all the earmarks of a modern mythology. It has universals cope, creates continuity between past, present, and future, integrates emotion and morality with technology, and posits the interrelatedness of all existence. Indeed, few science fiction and fantasy authors' narratives feel as mythic as Card's. However, nearly all of of his fiction builds on the work of another modern mythmaker: Mormonism's founder Joseph Smith. Card's brand of mythmaking is deliberately and thoroughly Mormon in tone and tenor." [p. 52]