[quote]anonym wrote:
If we start letting little kids train at what they are interested in, before you know it, we will have a nation with a ridiculous surplus of cowboys, astronauts, pirates, and princesses.[/quote]
Can we ever really have too many astronauts?
I thought that book was amazing when I was… 14? I re-read it again in my 20s and thought it was shite. I say, if you want to read Orson Scott Card, don’t. Read Asimov instead.
[quote]Malevolence wrote:
I thought that book was amazing when I was… 14? I re-read it again in my 20s and thought it was shite. I say, if you want to read Orson Scott Card, don’t. Read Asimov instead.[/quote]
Asimov is great. Really premium sci-fi. The thing is…Card doesnt try to pull you in through the science fiction aspect of his writing. He has a strong focus on human nature. Good versus evil. In some instances his characters may not behave as we would in real life, but we hope we would.
Ender’s Game was never even meant to be a novel. Card only expanded it into a novel (used to only be a real science fictiony short story) to set up his other books. The next novel in the series is ‘Speaker for the Dead’ give it a read. Maybe you’ll like it.