absolutely fantastic work. and i loved Ender's Game. it was brilliant. but SFtD was moving and was one of the best sf treatments of the issues around colonialism i've read.

>which is something that orson scott card definitely doesn't
>do today. i have almost as much problem with him as a book
>mercenary as i do with his politics.

yeah. the parallel ender's ish has gotten out of hand. the first couple were cool. but they had already started to feel mass produced and had lost my interest before i started paying attention to OSC's politics and careening into assholishness.
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>the original ender's game wasn't special. the stuff that
>appealed to adolescent readers was there but the novel didn't
>get a lot of it's best stuff until he had to recontextualize
>it while writing speaker for the dead.


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