Does anybody remember what the book about aliens all alone was called that OSC mentioned? The one that you really have to guess about the aliens culture?
Posted by Jasmine (Member # 7370) on :
OMG i went but was that the part when he mentioned the piggies and a lady said she had nightmare about?
Posted by theamazeeaz (Member # 6970) on :
I think that was what began the tangent, yeah.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
I mentioned one book that put you entirely inside a different culture, but it was a far-future human culture. That was ENGINE SUMMER by John Crowley.
Then i mentioned books that were from a primarily alien point of view (Rebecca Brown Ore's Being Alien and Becoming Alien) and most particularly her short story "Projectile Weapons and Wild Alien Water."
I did NOT mention but should have the brilliant novels by Octavia Butler in the Xenogenesis series: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago. A real experience in discovering and getting into a truly alien mindset.
Posted by AntiCool (Member # 7386) on :
Argh!!! I already have too many books in my queue already!
Posted by Jasmine (Member # 7370) on :
great! another book i need to read.
Mr. Card, completely off topic but, i forgot to tell you in Boston, my friend who LOVES Peter wants to say that you must get a really hot kid to play Peter. And i sent you the email with my poem, and was wondering if you ever got it?
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but was that the part when he mentioned the piggies and a lady said she had nightmare about?