| WNx, what you descirbed was the spin-off of Ender's Game, the Ender's Shadow series, the Ender's Game series itself drops off substantially after Ender's Game, it became a very sappy story about the dangers of further contact with aliens and our effect on alien civilizations (should we be the ones who discovered them). I love the Ender's Game book, but not the rest of the books in that particular series, the Ender's Shadow series is however AWESOME! I am re-reading that series for the..... sixth time, I have already read those books one this year but they are so good I am reading them again. Shadow of the Giant, very good ending to the series, assuming it is an ending, I have heard rumors another Shadow book is planned. If I was a woman I probably would have cried when I read Shadow of the Giant. Very, very good reads all around.
Orson Scott Card is not Tom Clancy, there are no dry parts in his books where he goes into great detail to explain the inner workings of every little piece of equipment.
According to my political science teacher, the United States today is trying to do the same thing as Peter Wiggin in the Ender's Shadow series.
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Please note that 98% of what I say is my opinion and/or my "version" of the facts. Most of what I say is rumor with little to no evidence to back it up, just something I picked up somewhere.
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