This all makes the Twilight saga not just the first great Mormon work of literature (pace Orson Scott Card), but the first great cultural product of the 21st century.

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Author Orson Scott Card gave us an Internet-like network 15 years ago in Ender's Game, a novel in which message boards were used as propaganda vehicles to take over the world.

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This consequence as led to speculation by science fiction authors Joe Haldeman and Orson Scott Card that people could travel in spaceships at near-light speed for what to them would be only days or weeks, but would be centuries back on Earth.

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