There’s a pretty clear delineation in the quality of Card’s work. Around the Bush administration, he really lost his enjoyment of writing fiction and went full into angry old man mode and the quality of his work took a nose dive.

If you’re going to read him, use that dividing line. He was an amazing author who lost it but kept writing.

A key moment that contributed to that was probably the death of his 17-year-old son to cerebral palsy in 2000.