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    The literature of Orson Scott Card

    For discussion (and ooh-ing and aah-ing) over Orson Scott Card's works.

    Firstly, I love OSC as the only one who has ever made a prodigy-hero not annoying to me. Every other one from Young Anakin to Jonas Quinn has annoyed my socks off by knowing too much or learning too quickly. But for some reason, Ender, Bean, and Ansset never really affected me that way.

    My favorite of his is the Ender series, though picking a favorite book within that is tough. Ender's Game was amazing; I think it was one of the first books that ever affected me emotionally. It was also what got me into Science Fiction as a genre. I think my favorite is Xenocide, though; it combines a new race, several new concepts, deadly peril, and civil disobedience. I also liked Speaker for the Dead, which gave readers a completely new Ender, the exile. I like seeing Ender without Valentine, or even the thought of her, as a security blanket, and I also love seeing the way humanity judged his xenocide, and especially the fact that that he was the first to condemn it, in the Hive Queen.
    Last edited by yasureubetcha; 09 April 2005, 10:29 PM.


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