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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think OSC just wrote a compelling book by accident. Lender's game was pretty good, speaker was... Readable, but xenocide is hot garbage and I gave up on children of the mind because I lost any faith that it would be good after struggling through xenocide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

A Planet Called Treason was pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I actually liked Xenocide, it was an interesting juxtaposition of his writing arguing one ideal and his own xenophobic personally held ideals.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I read basically everything he put out until the 2010's? Been awhile. Won't again because I know none of it will hold up lol.

I did like some of the ideas in Shadow when I read it as a teen, especially the galaxy wide internet becoming sentient with god-like powers. FTL travel by teleporting outside the universe and then back in at a different location was wild. Especially with the twist that if you think of anything while outside the universe it could become real. So, Ender accidentally poofs a version of Peter his brother as he remembers him into existence, a tormenting sociopath.

Or a worse one I guess. The real Peter is making a hegemony back on Earth in the Shadow side series following Bean another genius kid, who can't stop growing until it kills him IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I mean, poor Bean's descendants got another set of gene editing that fixed the growth issue, but tossed in the most severe form of OCD ever, and then thrown into a ~~racist~~ romanticised, version of Japanese culture to keep them from questioning things or trying to fix the OCD.

It really doesn't surprise me that the author is shitty though, it is fairly apparent from their writing/ the way they portray most worlds being governed by Catholics a good thing.