Hiiiiii! As a trusted sci-fi enjoyer, what are your thoughts on enders game? I’ve never read it, but I see a lot of people put it on their essentials lists. I know the author is very mormon, so I’m just if it’s still worth a read or not.

oh goodness. it's been probably a decade since i read ender's game! my friend was obsessed with the series at the time and so before the movie came out i read it and honestly hm. i remember being SHOCKED by the twist like. SHOOK to my CORE, the intergalactic implications the ramifications the DRAMA. the story itself was mostly "meh" but this was before i started to really Love scifi (didn't happen til i was around 15-ish?) and hated reading scifi novels, so i can't say if my view is the most reflective of the quality! i had no idea he was a mormon though omg? odds are theres shit i missed at the time. im pretty sure that it and its successive novels are pretty staunchly anti-war and anti-genocide (like not even subtly) which is why i was initially confused as to why the marines sometimes have their recruits read it ? cant think of what message *they* get out of it considering it ends with a child being traumatized after being manipulated and used by the military (like???). but anyways! this is all to say that conceptually i fucks with it and upon reflection what i can remember was very cool and fascinating, but i cant in good conscience say either way because i dont have a solid view :pensive emoji: