I am an avid reader of all your books and admire the versatility of your talents to different styles, subjects and situations. The strong moral honesty and clarity that runs through your novels are the true uniting force of your collection. The very different settings of the novels change but the moral dilemmas are always clear and dramatic.
One setting that would seem tailor-made for your talents and one that I have not seen you use(unless you include EG, which you could) is a sports team. Sports are the formative force in many if not most young boys of today and I think that your take on the subject would be enlightening and welcomed by many others.
-From a sports fan
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I agree that it would be cool to see something involving sport for no reason other than I am an athlete at heart and a coach in name. However, I am quite certain I have heard Mr. Card mention on an occation or two that he has never been a jock or a huge fan of the major sport of our country. So it might be difficult for him to be interested in something like that and in return it would be even more difficult to write on a topic in which he had no interest. Now... a less popular, more socially unknown sport might be cool and something he could write about with more interest. It would be way more fun to read about a small club Jai-li (sp?) team that travels around for games than about a football team or baseball team. I don't know, I'm just rambling on here... Interesting idea Roy but, doubt we'll ever see anything like that. Besides there is too much on his plate right now as it is. People around here already whine about the next Alvin book, the next two Ender books, the next Lovelock book, the next Pastwatch book, and on and on and on. Um... maybe whine is too strong of a word, let's just say there is a lot of strong encouragment for these projects to be finished first. and to be completely honest I want to see these come about too. *cough* Lovelock *cough* Weird it feels like there is a small monkey caught in my throught. Hmmm... I better go have that looked at.
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Beatnix- I think you meant Jai-Alai. Jai-Alai is the fastest ball sport played. The balls reach speed of 180 mph.
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The chance of my writing about a sports team is nil. Sports teams provided me with most of my most horrible moments in childhood; the cruelest, most selfish people I ever knew in school were the stars of sports teams. I've watched nice kids turn into monsters or victims on the basketball court. My experience is that sports teams turn otherwise civilizable people into arrogant punks OR cringing helots, and all because of relative abilities to do fundamentally useless acts.
It would be completely different if they were playing Trivial Pursuit.
Seriously, I'm not a sports guy. I don't understand team bonding. The closest I've ever come is the cast of a play. I couldn't write about sports teams because obviously I have missed everything significant about them. It remains a hole in my understanding of human experience that I haven't the slightest intention of filling.
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My next novel will be about a race of tiny elves who live in the armpits of athletes, and can only mate during moments of extreme physical exertion when the pheremones of the athlete are emitted in the greatest quantities.
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Yes, I have seen similar things happen to people due to sports. But there can be so much more. What sports means to me and many others is not found easily in modern sports, the best example to me is the NCAA tournament and all the emotion and passion that is always a part of it. At the end of the final game there is a short highlight reel played to music, "One Shining Moment" never fails to bring me goosebumps, it should be required viewing for everyone.
My crash course in understanding what sports should be:
1. Watch the NCAA tournament every year. 2. Watch Rudy, The Natural and Hoosiers in that order. That will take you from the desire and determination that sports fosters (in Rudy) to the feeling of destiny and life on a small scale that it can foster in some great players (in The Natural) to the culmination, what sports is really all about, the team and the leading of a group of individuals to a common goal (in Hoosiers).
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By the way to say that you dont understand team bonding is ridiculous, I think you are one of the preeminent experts on leadership and the emotional tightrope that a leader must walk in leading his peers.
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How about a story about an individual that had a split brain operation that altered him/her in some unusual way.
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and to be completely honest I want to see these come about too. *cough* Lovelock *cough* Weird it feels like there is a small monkey caught in my throught. Hmmm... I better go have that looked at.
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