Now i havn't read Magic Street yet, but i heard what Mr.Card had to say about it in Philly. People's darkest un-councious wishes coming true. Well at the end(ish) of Xenocide Ender travels to the outside with Miro and Ela. Miro getting a new body and Ender getting Young Val and Young Pete, kind of unconcious(except for Ela cause she was thinking of the design of the descolda to think of the new desease). Is there some kind of link between the two, i think there is.
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But your ideas tend to be on the level of "people working to build communities are admirable" and "heroes are ordinary people standing up to extraordinary forces" and "marriage isn't easy, quick, or frivolous, but it's worth it" and "live honorably even with the little stuff until the answers to the tough stuff come naturally" and "everything has consequences" and other similar themes that run through everything you write.
Oh, and "make likeable characters and then give them the worst day they'll ever have." Posts: 7790 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Yep. You've got it. That's all I know, and now nobody ever has to buy another of my books. I think I'll make up your list, Chris, into a bookmark and give it away with my books. Or at least send it to all the students who write to me in a panic saying, "Mr. Card, what is the theme of Ender's Game!"
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And yet you keep finding fun and interesting and maddening things to do with it all.
OK, I admit it, I just buy your books for the characters. The one thing that's similar about most of your protagonists is that not only would I like to know these people, I would like to be respected by these people. And yet they're not paragons of virtue who can't help but be Good. They're normal people with deep convictions who struggle just as hard, maybe harder, to be the sort of people they think they should be.
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"That's all I know, and now nobody ever has to buy another of my books."
Well, not quite. I can buy all the same paints that artists use but it's somehow not as satisfying as seeing what they do with them.
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