SOLD/SHIPPED: SIGNED 1st ed. of Orson Scott Card's "Maps In A Mirror", with EXCITING BONUSES!

[smillaraaq]

Shamelessly appropriated from inspired by sabinelagrande's awesome offer of an autographed copy of The Anita Bryant Story, and egged on by chomiji, whose giggly reaction when I floated the idea over lunch yesterday convinced me to do it, I present to you another exercise in collectible irony!

Offered: One Easton Press leather-bound first edition of Orson Scott Card's

Comments

[meganbmoore]

(do you mean 1979-1989?)

[smillaraaq]

I meant 1977, and clearly cannot type properly when giggling like a mad thing. Thank you, editing now!

[meganbmoore]

(You realize that, never having read or really paid attention to Card-yes, I know, very bad sff fan-I wasn't really familiar with WHY this was amazing...so I went to wikipedia."Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the law."...WTF?)

[smillaraaq]

If you really care to find out more, my link above in the book's title will take you to Card's own site. You can find plenty of his editorializing at length on gay marriage and sundry other issues if you poke about there long enough. I don't really care to look it up myself right now, I'm in a very good mood from posting this and really don't want to harsh my happy little buzz.

[meganbmoore]

Nah, I think I'll just chuckle over the listing and maybe post telling people with more money than me to go bid on things, and point out that it's about equal rights for everyone and blah blah blah.

[smillaraaq]

Mmmm, and while I wouldn't call myself a fan -- not just for my personal disagreement with his views, but because I've never read any of his novel-length works, not even the really big-name stuff like Ender's Game -- but just based on the short stories here, I do have immense respect for the man's talent and craft as a wordsmith. This is a gorgeous-looking collectible book, a pleasure to hold and look at, with some very wonderful short fiction in it. Unfortunately, personal circumstances around the situation in which it was given to me have ensured that it's pretty much been ignored on my bookshelf for many years, because I couldn't really bear to touch it. I've been pondering selling it for a while anyway, to clear up some much-needed shelf space and send it off to a home where it will be better loved; the sheer delightful irony of raffling it off here for this of all possible good causes finally made me get off my butt and do it.