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Xenocide (Ender Saga) by Orson Scott Card – Review

Xenocide is the fourth novel in the Ender series, and the penultimate of the series overall – even though it is succeeded by the “Shadow” series. I know this review is going to be messy. It’s hard to summarise the ideas and thoughts in this series here, but I’ll try.
If you’ve read Speaker For The [...]

Speaker For The Dead (Orson Scott Card) Review

Speaker For The Dead is the second book in the “Ender” series by Orson Scott Card. It follows “Ender’s Game” – but, really, it’s a very different book. Again, warning: spoilers abound!
It’s now 3,000 years since the events in the first book. Due to the intricacies of time dilation at lightspeed travel, Ender is still [...]

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card – Review

Ender’s Game is one of those classics of Science Fiction that I had never got around to reading, but now I’m glad I did.
The story is set in a fantastical future in which the human race is struggling to avoid overcrowding and is just getting over a war with a race of insect-like creatures nicknamed [...]