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Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
I adore NK Jemisin. One of my recent (past 10 years?) favorites.
Never read any, but between you and [MENTION=30438]Ralif Redhammer[/MENTION] saying how much you like, I just ordered The Fifth Season.
I adore NK Jemisin. One of my recent (past 10 years?) favorites.
Never read any, but between you and [MENTION=30438]Ralif Redhammer[/MENTION] saying how much you like, I just ordered The Fifth Season.
I'm with you. I read it as the military complex did the unspeakable and Ender's morale anguish was because of that. Reading further books (which I don't recommend, they aren't as good) seems to hold that up.
Never read any, but between you and [MENTION=30438]Ralif Redhammer[/MENTION] saying how much you like, I just ordered The Fifth Season.
Thanks for reminding me of these. I picked up Sorcerer because some reviewer said it read like Samuel Delenay + hip-hop. Then, of course, it went on the (virtual) pile of books I didn't get around to reading.Now I’m reading Kai Ashante Wilson’s follow-up to Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, A Taste of Honey.
This is a popular late take on Ender's... but I don't find it to be a particularly good read on the novel. It's not about justifying genocide. That opinion developed after the Brain Eater et Card's brain and a lot of former fans felt the need to demonstrate everything Card wrote was always awful forever.I hope this book is only popular because it is a power fantasy for bullied video game nerds. Not because space-Hitler is cool.
The Hitler reference certainly is hyperbolic, but the defense of genocide isn't. How is genocide repudiated in this novel? Ender is literally forgiven by the species he killed. Humanity, who's planet is overpopulted, got to colonized prepared planets thanks to his genocide. Humanity feels there are no space threats anymore with the Formics dead. Ender is rewarded for his genocide by being the governor and then judge of a colony. He gets to start a religion. Everyone says he isn't responsable for the genocide. That he was tricked into it. Humans celebrate Ender. Ender's teachers and the military are put on trial and they are found (and Ender indirectly) not guilty. No one is guilty of genocide. Ender isn't scarred physically or psychologically.This is a popular late take on Ender's... but I don't find it to be a particularly good read on the novel. It's not about justifying genocide.
I'm not familiar with other stuff Card wrote, so my take all comes from Ender's Game. As for Card, all I know about his politics are his takes on same sex unions, which means little when it comes to genocide (one hopes at least).That opinion developed after the Brain Eater et Card's brain and a lot of former fans felt the need to demonstrate everything Card wrote was always awful forever.
How is genocide repudiated in this novel?