I don't need the authors of children's books to be saints. Okay, fine - I wouldn't want to meet J.M. First of all, there's the hubbub around Orson Scott Card himself, who made some pretty damningly anti-gay remarks a while ago and also has a disconcerting range of quasi-libertarian, conspiracy-theory-inflected views about history and politics. But reading it as an adult - in particular, reading it for the first time as an adult - is really weird. The book features all kinds of things that a reader under the age of 13 would love: space battles, long zero-gravity acrobatic sequences, pre-adolescents who somehow have the privileges and responsibilities of adults. Ender's Game was published in 1985, and so a lot of kids who grew up in the 90s have happy memories of it.
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