I reread some of it recently and although his writing continues to be compelling, I don't think it's aged nearly as well as science fiction for a general population as Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead -- but if you consider it as Book of Mormon / LDS-theological-allegory fanfic, I think it is still great :) (The Holy Ghost is a spaceship computer! I love it.)
BTW, his Alvin Maker series is also Joseph Smith Fantasy America AU. I haven't reread those in a while but I remember the first several were good, and then it became very not-good as he leaned more into "hey let's have their family meet everyone in the world, including Napoleon!"
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I reread some of it recently and although his writing continues to be compelling, I don't think it's aged nearly as well as science fiction for a general population as Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead -- but if you consider it as Book of Mormon / LDS-theological-allegory fanfic, I think it is still great :) (The Holy Ghost is a spaceship computer! I love it.)
BTW, his Alvin Maker series is also Joseph Smith Fantasy America AU. I haven't reread those in a while but I remember the first several were good, and then it became very not-good as he leaned more into "hey let's have their family meet everyone in the world, including Napoleon!"