oof, i’ve tried but the eugenics in it is nauseating i literally couldnt get through it. especially the ender’s shadow series, used to love those side books but the eugenics shit is like 10x worse than in the main books
Oh yeah it’s real bad, but I also like Dune which is chock full of eugenics and it is pretty clear even in the shadow spinoff that all they did was create narcissistic monsters.
Also both Ender’s siblings are pretty prescient in terms of the rise of social media influencer celebs now that I think of it.
I also maintain (and my memory is very foggy) the one story about the other kid that ends up spilling the beans and telling all the other kids that were subject to the same project they put Ender through was pretty good where he, at the last moment tells them what they are doing, was pretty good.
I haven’t read the spinoff series in about 25 years.
oof, i’ve tried but the eugenics in it is nauseating i literally couldnt get through it. especially the ender’s shadow series, used to love those side books but the eugenics shit is like 10x worse than in the main books
Oh yeah it’s real bad, but I also like Dune which is chock full of eugenics and it is pretty clear even in the shadow spinoff that all they did was create narcissistic monsters.
Also both Ender’s siblings are pretty prescient in terms of the rise of social media influencer celebs now that I think of it.
I also maintain (and my memory is very foggy) the one story about the other kid that ends up spilling the beans and telling all the other kids that were subject to the same project they put Ender through was pretty good where he, at the last moment tells them what they are doing, was pretty good.
I haven’t read the spinoff series in about 25 years.