: Re: How can I determine the public opinion of an author? I recently asked a question which cited a book by Orson Scott Card, How to Write Fantasy & Science-Fiction. Orson Scott Card is the

I suspect the answer is you can't easily find the meaningful reputation of an author.

The first problem is a question of which authority do you wish to trust on the issue. We'll make a fictional Bob, who is willing to answer this question for you. Send him author names and he'll tell you their reputation. The question of why do you think that he has a better sense of author reputation than you comes immediately to mind and plays strongly into the next point.

No community is a monolith. Some believe that any author with great sales should be respected, others seem to think that any author with great sales is producing trash and should be ignored. Parse it by genre, age, gender and who knows what else and you'll get very different results depending on who you ask.

There's also the issue that authors have more than one reputation. Taking OSC, his politics have a horrible reputation among most people who know them. For some that colors all he does, for others he might be a fine author and might even have good advice on writing, but they'd never want to have dinner with the man.

Given all that, the idea that there might be somewhere you could look up an author's reputation seems daunting.

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