By P.Q. Gump Sunstone’s sixth issue (Summer 1977) included a cover article titled “Endangered Species: The Single Mormon Man.” The following is a condensed reprint of a sidebar authored by Orson Scott Card under his pseudonym P.Q. Gump. AS A DIVORCED woman with a child, my dating life (such as it is) naturally includes a …
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Sacred Sci-Fi: Orson Scott Card as Mormon Mythmaker
By Christopher C. Smith Almost every culture has traditional mythologies—usually stories set in a primordial time of gods and heroes. Although in popular discourse the term “myth” typically refers only to fiction, literary critics and theologians use it to refer to any “existential” story—even a historical one. Myths explain how the world came to be, …