Sci-Fi Geekdom

In honor of the boy-to-be inside of me, I have been rereading the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card. The first book, Ender's Game, was written in the 1970s and it clearly outlines the internet, usergroups and a number of other future inventions that we now live with everyday. The protagonist is a very young, hyper-intelligent boy who is taken away from his parents and trained to be a fighter/strategist in a war against an alien life form called "the buggers". Rumor has it that they intend to make a movie of the first book and include parts of an auxiliary book called Ender's Shadow. I imagine it will be live-action, though the book would be best served through animation.

"Do you think that human parents, once they bear young, are ever truly free again? If life to you means independence, a completely unfettered freedom to do as you like, then none of the sentient creatures is alive. None of us is ever fully free." Orson Scott Card, from Xenocide.

Posted by Molli at June 24, 2002 06:10 AM