quote: The novels of Orson Scott Card's Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games, and psychology.
- USAToday (On the cover of SotG)
I was just wondering, when people reminisce upon the Ender series, are action, political strategy, war games, and psychology the things that come to mind? I enjoyed the books because of the development and interactions of the various characters and their choices in the situations they had to deal with. I guess that sounds kind of general, but its true for me. The aforementioned items quoted by the USAToday seem to be the channel through which OSC built his story but were not the reason which I identified and enjoyed them.
I'm not suggesting that the quote to be changed to something like "OSC's books feature a delighful slew of interesting characters," because, well, that's lame. I was just wondering if OSC's fans like his work because of what's mentioned in the quote.
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Well, I can pretty much agree with that quote. I would assume that most good stories would have good interaction between characters(at least I would hope so). And I'd say the way they interact could fit under the psychology part of that quote. OSC seems to supply psychological reasons for why the characters do what they do and say what they say.
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I've always found that description to be a little off too. It fits the Shadow books fine, as well as the original EG, but not SftD, X, or CotM. But I guess it would sound stupid to say, "Some of the novels..."
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