This is the conclusion of the parallel stories of Peter Wiggin and Bean (a.k.a. Julian Delphiki) from Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game. I didn’t think it was that good. As I said before, Mr. Card’s Hegemon series have this critical problem of making these kids to be so smart that his writings [...]
I think the Card’s contrived way of telling a story — the way that makes it seems that the whole story is told by an omniscient, ethical being — becomes more apparent in Shadow Puppets. I was tempted to defend him that this is because he was trying to tell a story within the bigger [...]
Although this should be no surprise to me at all, I am periodically reminded that there are always others that have already thought of something that I come up with. Over the Labor Day weekend, I finished a new science fiction, Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card. This is a part of the popular Ender’s [...]