[ale] [OT] Science Fiction

[Michael Hirsch]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com>wrote:

>   If you like Clarke’s style (including getting to the emotion of his
> characters) you’d probably enjoy Orson Scott Card’s stuff as well.
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> Oddly enough Clarke wrote the book “2001: A Space Odyssey “ AFTER the
> movie.
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> It boggles my mind that after all these years they’ve made a movie of
> Card’s “Ender’s Game”.    I’ve not seen it because I fear it will be
> disappointing like many SciFi movies purported to be based on books of the
> same title.   (I still gnash my teeth whenever Starship Troopers is being
> shown.)
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Go ahead and see the movie.   Unlike Starship Troopers it is quite true to
the book.  And unlike Dune, they didn't try to get everything into the
book.  The whole Locke/Demosthenese subplot is excluded, and the book is
much more about action than it is about the growth of Ender as a leader,
but I still liked it and wasn't offended by it varying from the book.

Michael
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