Reading

[asterroc]

Popping around after a link from sclerotic_rings led me to this sci-fi short story. It starts off kinda slow, narrating the tale through letters between a biologist husband in Colombia and his wife back in the US, but the pace picks up rapidly by the end. I won't spoil it too much for you, but the premise is that a cult breaks out around the world of men who feel it is their duty to kill all the women in the world, and the search for what is really going on.

This one is by the same author (Alice B. Sheldon / Raccoona Sheldon / James Tiptree Jr. used pseudonyms liberally, and she's quite a character in her own right) and I will read it next.

Comments

[meig.livejournal.com]

I liked these a lot.

[demigoth.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I've been meaning to check out her writing for a little while. Thanks for the linky!

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

THanks for the recs -- won't get to them soon, but I love sci-fi short stories.

Just finally read Ender's Game -- meant to read it for years, but kept forgetting to do something about it. Found it in an airport on Monday and finished on Tuesday. Happy :) .

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

A lot of the subsequent books have a different feel to them - what I really liked about that one is that Card was the only author I read as a child to really "get" gifted kids - we were just like every other kid out there, except that we're entirely different. Having taught gifted kids for a few summers as an adult, I still feel that way about gifted children.

The sequals are mostly the same characters as adults, and so were less interesting to me in my youth. "Ender's Shadow" (one of the more recent additions to the series) however, is the same time period as "Ender's Game" but from the point of view of the young Bean, so it was also excellent, but the others were all sorts of political stuff. I think I should read them again now as an adult, and I might appreciate them more.

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

Read the Speaker for the Dead, at least. It's Ender, but mature. He completely captures what that means. It's a quietly beautiful book. The rest of the books are eh.