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From: jjm@hou5e.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: More Orson Scott Card
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Date: Wed, 13-Jul-83 09:12:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 13 09:12:22 1983
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	Orson Scott Card is indeed one of the best new writers of recent
	years.  If you read ANYTHING by him, try to get a copy of his
	first science fiction story "Ender's Game" originally published
	in Analog magazine, and reprinted in an anthology of Card short
	stories.

	I started corresponding with Scott after that first story
	(a correspondence that I am ashamed to say I have let lapse).
	He is a very interesting person - a Mormon from Salt Lake City
	whose only previous writing experience was editing a Mormon
	magazine and writing religious plays!

	"Ender's Game" is about a group of young boys being trained
	in a special high-tech military academy, which is designed
	to find and train the next great military leader.  Ender is
	that child prodigy, and the story of his rise through the ranks
	in school is well-paced and exciting.  It would make a hell of
	a movie but Scott thinks that present film techniques are not up to
	the extensive zero-G sequences required.

	HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

	Jim McParland
	ABI - Holmdel
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