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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/04/2026

Vicky Osterweil's *Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World* makes the kind of polemical, startling, illuminating argument that defines great criticism; it's the sort of book that encapsulates the reasons I read criticism: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2525-t... 1/

The Haymarket Books cover for Vicky Osterweil's 'The Extended Universe.'

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/04/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/04/28/m... 2/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/04/2026

My first brush with this kind of criticism came more than two decades ago, when I read John Kessel's classic "Creating the Innocent Killer," a critique of Orson Scott Card's *Ender's Game*, a book I'd read and enjoyed enough to re-read several times: johnjosephkessel.wixsite.com/kessel-websi... 3

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Creating the Innocent Killer | kessel-website

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