I stopped by my local public library today and checked out David Lubar's young adult novel "Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie". The title sounded funny, and I needed something to read, so I grabbed it.
Anyway, as I was reading it at one point, the main character Scott mentions that he's reading Ender's Game. Two pages later, he says:
"Remember how I hoped Ender's Game would be good? Well, it was beyond that. I could hardly put it down."
I was excited! Apparently, Lubar has good taste in literature!
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
That's a good book too. I read it a few weeks ago.
Posted by genius00345 (Member # 8206) on :
I may have discovered Lubar's motive for planting this reference. Turns out he's a Tor author as well. He even plugs OSC on this page at his website.
I'm interested in finding more of his writings now. I was browsing his website and found that he wrote a piece that was featured in Nickelodeon Magazine (which, as one of my guilty pleasures, at 16, I still have a subscription to) that I read and enjoyed.
Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
Actually, authors have next to no motivation to plug each other's fiction in the text of their novels, beyond simply admiring (or in some cases, detesting) one another's work.
It's not like a movie or a game that the publisher/studio might try to finance or cross-promote with some product placement.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
You forgot two very important words, ARND: "so far" .
Posted by genius00345 (Member # 8206) on :
Sarcasm is hard to show in text. I wasn't really suggesting that Lubar was 'plugging' OSC. It was just a joke...although maybe he was trying to cash in on the popularity of OSC...(( < sarcasm))
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Also notice the character's name was Scott; as in Orson Scott Card.
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