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Spotlight on Fandoms: Ender's Game
Monday, November 10th, 2008 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endsthegameSorry this is late! I was tuckered out from driving yesterday, alas alas. But here we go! Spotlight on Ender's Game, guys.
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"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
Ender's Game is considered one of the great sci-fi novels of modern times (and chances are a good chunk of you folks has already read it). Written by Orson Scott Card, it spawned many, many (generally bad) sequels, a parallel novel called Ender's Shadow, and a lot of essays on the somewhat freaky morality of one mr. Card as displayed in the book. I'm not going to go into the sequels here, and I'm only going to gently brush over Ender's Shadow-- a book which also spawned its own line of sequels.
Let's just say that in my opinion, beyond arguably Speaker for the Dead, they're only worth reading if you want to know how much drugs Orson started doing after his books started selling.
The many, many drugs.
Anyway! SPOILERS BELOW, OH EM GEE.
( Let's start with the main plot. And the subplot. Or: Len gets very TL;DR, again. )
( And advance to the characters. Hopefully less tl;dr. )
( And why I love it. )
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"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
Ender's Game is considered one of the great sci-fi novels of modern times (and chances are a good chunk of you folks has already read it). Written by Orson Scott Card, it spawned many, many (generally bad) sequels, a parallel novel called Ender's Shadow, and a lot of essays on the somewhat freaky morality of one mr. Card as displayed in the book. I'm not going to go into the sequels here, and I'm only going to gently brush over Ender's Shadow-- a book which also spawned its own line of sequels.
Let's just say that in my opinion, beyond arguably Speaker for the Dead, they're only worth reading if you want to know how much drugs Orson started doing after his books started selling.
The many, many drugs.
Anyway! SPOILERS BELOW, OH EM GEE.
( Let's start with the main plot. And the subplot. Or: Len gets very TL;DR, again. )
( And advance to the characters. Hopefully less tl;dr. )
( And why I love it. )