Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card, has a kick-ass, awesome plot about the genetically engineered superfreaks brainwashed by the PTB. It also has several other plots I found lame and boring.
It's the third in the Ender's Game trilogy, which Card should've stopped writing when he was ahead. Ender's Game is awesome and if you haven't, you should read it. The sequel, Speaker for the Dead, has really badass concepts and really terribly poor execution. The third is Xenocide, and after that I don't rec reading. I tried and failed.
Last comment, sorry. The problem with an issue like the one you posted here is I find it extremely difficult to reply to in any reasonable amount of time. I actually felt similarly about your gender/toy post. I typed several very long replies to that post, didn't get near to what I wanted to say, and ended up deleting them because I knew I wouldn't have time to expound on it properly. I find on lj it works better if you really narrow down the topic, but of course in doing so you lose the richness of a fuller, broader discussion. Eek. Oh, well.
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Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card, has a kick-ass, awesome plot about the genetically engineered superfreaks brainwashed by the PTB. It also has several other plots I found lame and boring.
It's the third in the Ender's Game trilogy, which Card should've stopped writing when he was ahead. Ender's Game is awesome and if you haven't, you should read it. The sequel, Speaker for the Dead, has really badass concepts and really terribly poor execution. The third is Xenocide, and after that I don't rec reading. I tried and failed.
Last comment, sorry. The problem with an issue like the one you posted here is I find it extremely difficult to reply to in any reasonable amount of time. I actually felt similarly about your gender/toy post. I typed several very long replies to that post, didn't get near to what I wanted to say, and ended up deleting them because I knew I wouldn't have time to expound on it properly. I find on lj it works better if you really narrow down the topic, but of course in doing so you lose the richness of a fuller, broader discussion. Eek. Oh, well.