For me it depends on the extent to which the author tries to push their own personal political/social views in their books.
Orson Scott Card for example, now, I'm not going to deny that Ender's Game isn't brilliant. But a lot of his other books very rapidly descend into thinly veiled author-pushing-his-beliefs territory. There was one I read that I gave up on disgust set in a post-apocalyptic America where society had collapsed, and everybody had turned into murdering rapist cannibals, except for one tiny corner of the land which held onto their noble and decent ways, because the Mormons were so morally superior to everybody else and anybody who wanted to be saved had to become one.
Which was actually the very last OSC book I bothered with.
Another example I suppose is Tom Clancy, I adored Hunt For Red October and some of his earlier novels, but then he starts to become increasingly more frothing at the mouth and Republican-Republican-YAY-YAY-YAY DEATH TO FILTHY LIBERALS! And I just rolled my eyes and gave up.
So I guess with Lovecraft the question becomes how often does he push a racist ideology in his actual stories...
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Date: 2013-10-10 02:54 pm (UTC)Orson Scott Card for example, now, I'm not going to deny that Ender's Game isn't brilliant. But a lot of his other books very rapidly descend into thinly veiled author-pushing-his-beliefs territory. There was one I read that I gave up on disgust set in a post-apocalyptic America where society had collapsed, and everybody had turned into murdering rapist cannibals, except for one tiny corner of the land which held onto their noble and decent ways, because the Mormons were so morally superior to everybody else and anybody who wanted to be saved had to become one.
Which was actually the very last OSC book I bothered with.
Another example I suppose is Tom Clancy, I adored Hunt For Red October and some of his earlier novels, but then he starts to become increasingly more frothing at the mouth and Republican-Republican-YAY-YAY-YAY DEATH TO FILTHY LIBERALS! And I just rolled my eyes and gave up.
So I guess with Lovecraft the question becomes how often does he push a racist ideology in his actual stories...