When I read the book with my class of high tech gamers it put a real different spin on the book. When I read it the internet was not a place to hang with friends and play games (I am not sure if it existed then). My students do play war games with people in other countries. They were rather shocked to think that they could really be fighting a war. The essays that came out of that thought was really incredible.
Yeah, it’s pretty amazing how forward thinking Orson Scott Card was. Wars being fought from afar? Children playing war games? Anonymous influence over a network of computers? Preposterous, of course. None of that could…
Actually ever…
Happen… :rolleyes:
You are correct it could never happen. :eek:
What do you think the first three Call of Duty’s were about?
Military officers from the future came back to our time and created that game. Then they sent cyborgs back to World War II with the ability to receive signals from our time. Since the cyborgs were a bit like Stormtroopers they were set to be controlled by kids from the present day.
In the original history we lost that war.
It’s kind of like Terminator meets Ender’s Game.
It has happened before, It won’t happen again.
Does that mean in HALO we are fighting a war in the future from the past, PWNing all them n00bs jr high style
No, Halo is pure fiction. The new mission is to genetically engineer a race of super creatures to fight against the evil alien races that won’t accept Christianity as their religion. 
This long awaited game will be called Spore.
I read Ender’s Game over the summer; I was pretty impressed by it. It was a very interesting read, though rather long winded. I felt sure the book was going to end several times during my read but to no avail.
The zero-g fighting was quite excellent and made me think about space in a way I never had before.
I thought that Ender's siblings were a bit odd and not completely believable, if not very interesting. Very smart children indeed.
The game Ender plays was probably my favorite part of the entire book. The bit with the giant and everything beyond it was fascinating. All in all it was a good book with a few weird flaws.
Also, Card is virulently homophobic and mormon? I'm not sure at that latter point but he's definitely written some hateful things about gay people. But I don't think that diminishes his work.It doesn’t diminish Ender’s Game… but more of his unorthodox world views sneak into the later books of the series… which I read, because once I start something I finish it, but none of them lived up to Ender’s Game. Except for Ender’s Shadow, except that got weird too with Petra and 16 year olds having a gazillion babies.
What it has done is made me resolved never to buy anything that will allow a penny of revenue to get to that man.
Yeah - I got it off a *chan site in a pdf(er, not that I condone piracy). So I didn’t feel too bad about it once I learned of his views.
He’s a serious Mormon. The other point seems to be true (he has written negatively about homosexuality.) I’m not sure how to deal with this. There are plenty of people that I wouldn’t want to associate with who created works I love.
I think the same about Ayn Rand. She also expressed ‘disgust’ with homosexuality in general but I still really enjoy Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
Whacha gonna do?
Write a script where she has a mad relationship with Helena Baron Carter.
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Nevermind.
Considering how romance tends to be treated in Rand’s novels, it would most definitely be mad. Mad and violent. Also, aristocratic.
Hey - that doesn’t look to bad! I’ll have to check out the first issue!
awsome!! book the squals are good:)
It was one of the group reads last year? Maybe? Or was it the year before that? I don’t remember. Anyways, the discussion thread can be found here, feel free to jump in and revive the thread. Or really with any of the group reads thus far.
And ETA: welcome, demolitionplayer57, I hadn’t seen you around before 