It’s brief, but it gets a B+. Here’s part of the review:
Empire, a cautionary adventure about a second U.S. Civil War between liberals and conservatives, is a similarly blistering read. Card plots hard-boiled action just as well as Tom Clancy, and layers in character detail and dialogue you’ll never find in a Jack Ryan novel.

Well, to be somewhat fair, Card is conservative on abortion, gay marriage and a few other things.

But a lot of the anger or misconceptions come from his political rhetoric. If you read his essays at ornery.org, he doesn’t pull punches and lets the vitrol towards the left roll. He takes quite a few potshots at the right as well, but 80% of his political writings for the last 5+ years have been aimed at attacking the left for abandoning what he thinks should be the core of the Democratic party.

And he’s not very nice about it – Card seems to have reached a point in his life where he no longer cares whether people think he is politically reasonable or accomodating.

So I can see why many liberals, rather than see if his criticisms have any value, would prefer to lump him in with “the wacko right” since in a binary world view, that would be the only place they could put him without taking him seriously.

BTW – outside of the war on terrorism, isn’t Card pretty much a Nibley-like Liberal? He favors strong gun control, socialized health care, more welfare and a bunch else. I don’t quite understand how some pretty blatant liberals like say Lieberman are considered conservative. Weird.

Style wise, definitely none of the brooding of Speaker for the Dead or the metaphysical discussions of Xenocide. Its much closer to the his Shadow books than the rest of his writing, but it is much faster paced compared to everything else.

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And there’s a Mormon President. What more could you want?

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72093-0.html?tw=wn_index_2

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=112906B

http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/11/30/orson_scott_card_confounds_the_far_left/

http://edwardwillett.blogspot.com/2006/11/orson-scott-card-interview.html

http://www.hatrack.com/ubb/main/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=004577

Review isn’t online yet, though. And I’m too lazy to type in an excerpt.