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I used to read my father's books. He had just taken out Seventh Son, so I picked it up and started reading it (I was 11 at the time). I then found out my father owned Ender's Game. After reading that, I ransacked the library for anything by him. I haven't read everything, but I'm working on it! He's one of the first authors that I'm actually willing to try all of his works (Dean Koontz being another).
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The Memory of Earth. The Homecoming series was in my high school library, but oddly enough the Ender Series wasn't (not until I bought the collection of paperbacks and donated them as an alumnus gift last year). Anways, I picked it up arbitrarily one day and decided that a world in which women rule wouldn't be too bad to read about. And then I was hooked and had to read the rest of the series.
For not being a huge science fiction fan, I guess I've read more sci fi than anything in the last few years owing mostly to my growing Card collection.
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A book didn't introduce me to Orson Scott Card, A periodical did.
In August of 1977, in Analog, I was privilaged enough to be exposed to Ender's Game which had a profound, and immediate effect on my life. The story haunted me for years. Only a few of my close friends knew the phrase "The enemy's gate is down," when I trotted it out.
Those that knew the phrase always wanted to discuss this wonderful story.
Years passed. I was into Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson in 1984, and had not even been exposed to David Brin yet (thanks to my wife, I later discovered Startide Rising and was hooked). It was years after the publication of the novel that I discovered that it had been written.
And what an expansion on the story that was. We got to go inside Peter and Valentine's heads! Wow! I was blown away, and I can't make this statement strong enough to convey just how much!
I later turned my wife on to the novel. She was hopelessly hooked (one good turn deserves another).
Thanks OSC. We've now read the whole series, or both series, if you like. And we'll probably get the next few books, and the DVD when it comes out, and the merchandise, and, well, everything!
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have you read any of his other books Erik S?
i was on vacation and i went to the bookstore and had to get my mom a present, so i just bought enders game, then my mom said it was really good so i read it... now i'm hooked
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That's really great that you took your mom's advice - I don't really care for her taste in literature. I don't care for Grisham, King, Diane Motts Davidson and the like. I could do without all the, for lack of a better word, suspense, that those authors' books ritually entail. No, as for me, I'm a sci-fi kind of person. Hail the Almighty OSC !!
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down"
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Ender's Game was my first OSC book, which was recommended to me by a member of another online community.
I keep reading OSC for a couple of reasons. For one, he wrote so many books, and he's still writing more. At this point in time, if you just started reading OSC this year, as I did, you can read a ton of books and not worry about running out. Also, I've always been fascinated with ideas presented by sci-fi books, but most get so technical and boring that I just turn to their movie counterparts. OSC has an intriguing scientific imaginations, as well as a down-to-earth approach that deals with human emotions.
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Way back in junior high I first read Ender's Game. Now, I've re-read the entire series a few times, along with a few of his other series.
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Ksig, I have only read all of the Ender universe stuff. I have Treason right now in my book queue, but haven't started it yet.
After a few months on this forum, I am very interested in reading the Alvin Maker stuff. Sounds very entertaining!
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I always considered myself something of a sci-fi nut. One day in Jr. High as I walked into the library I saw on a book rack a copy of Ender's Game. The cover was pretty cool looking, with the fighter ship and the futuristic looking horizon. Plus it had 2 littl award stars on it. That was enough for me.
Sci-fi-check (though not nearly as much a sci-fi story as I anticipated. That is a good thing though) Cool cover-check Awards-check 300+ page book (when my peers were whining about 100+ pages)-check
Got me started! I have read all the books in the Enderverse now multiple times (for most), and the Homecoming series. Need to now branch out to the Alvin series.
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He's one of the first authors that I'm actually willing to try all of his works (Dean Koontz being another).
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