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“I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one. Or at least as close as we’re going to get.”

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card

Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card

Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card

First Meetings by Orson Scott Card

A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card

September 5, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I am rereading all of  the Ender books and reading a handful for the first time. I am not really interesting in investigating Card as a person because he’s not a very good person, but in the novels themselves. Sometimes there’s carry over between the things that makes Card undesirable, but much of the time, the novels are wholly separate.   Ender’s Game – 5/5 Stars I first read this book in high school, and I had no clue what it was all about going […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: A War of Gifts, Ender in Exile, Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, First Meetings, Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:482 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: A War of Gifts, Ender in Exile, Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, First Meetings, Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon ·
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“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”

June 9, 2017 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

I was always a voracious reader but in reality I recycled the same 10 or 15 books a year with a few new ones sprinkled in for good measure. This isn’t a bad system but it would have made for a very repetitive Cannonball profile and one thing my CBR journey has pushed me to do in the past three and a half years is to read new books: different genres and entire author oeuvres etc. So now that I’m on my fourth year I figure […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

Caitlin_D's CBR9 Review No:63 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card ·
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If you think you’ve been here before, you have.

September 25, 2015 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

First off, the rating. The Last Colony is a solid 4.5. I found the book delightful. Scalzi unpacked a little bit more of his universe, and ends the book with a punch, but not in a way that I felt suckered into continuing the series. It was just a final crescendo to a great adventure, and I was left wanting more. Which leads to my second point: Zoe’s Tale was fairly pointless. It’s a retelling of The Last Colony. Literally. It’s the exact same story, […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: deja vu, Ender's Game, octogenarians

ingres77's CBR7 Review No:18 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: deja vu, Ender's Game, octogenarians ·
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