but that extended UNIVERSE is EXTREMELY skewed toward tolerance. Between the three Speaker of the Dead books and the spin-off Ender's Shadow quartet that whole series was pretty influential on how I view people. It was really jarring to learn how different the guy who wrote those books was from the characters he'd created.

Like, either series is ALL ABOUT characters of wildly different backgrounds learning to coexist and prosper. The Shadow series in particular wraps up with the entire world operating under one government other than the United States and nations being recognized on cultural/ethnic grounds rather than international borders.

Maybe the strangest part of the whole OSC thing is that one of his best reviewed books, Songmaster, is specifically about a homosexual relationship.



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