Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995)
by Crito on Friday November 29, 2013 @05:40AM
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The reason why people don't pick up on Card's shit writing while reading Enders Game is because in Enders Game he substitutes "actually writing complex characters that develop as the story progresses" with "child characters who merely become less foolish as the story progresses". It is a surprisingly common cop-out, making a character a child is a great way to disguise the fact that they only grow in one dimension.
Re:How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995)
by sanoli on Friday November 29, 2013 @06:04AM
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I didn't even think Eder's Game was great or anything. Just an ok SF story. Now, reading your argument, it makes sense. Back in my mind I was probably thinking "What's so great about these little kids learning some shit and growing a couple of years?"
What I also know is he's a pretty terrible writer - Ender's Game is fantastic, but the sequels are progressively worse and worse in a horrifying fashion that boggles the mind until you realise that OSC is someone who has a very, very basic understanding (or lack thereof) of human relationships and politics... Makes one think that Ender's Game was a bit of a fluke.
But that's totally off-topic.