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Caveat about Ender’s Game and Orson Scott Card: dude is a fucko whackjob irl, just pirate it lol
He also used to be the editor of Compute!magazine.
But you’re right, he Scott Adams’ed himself before Scott Adams did.
The quality of his books had been going down for a long, long time before I found out he was a bigot. Also, waaay too many child marriages.
The heck. How can an intelligent person writing such amazing books have such misinformed and hateful views?
Adding Foundations from Issac Asimov
Can someone explain the draw of foundations. I found it incredibly boring in terms of prose, structure and overall concepts.
I will admit that I straight up don’t vibe with the main gimmick, the fact that they can essentially predict the future by knowing enough about the past. Chaos theory throws a massive wrench in that idea and I found it hard to get in to the novel when so much relied on a concept that makes no sense practically.
For my part I like how psycho history is like thermodynamics. Harry seldom is not predicting the future as much as tweaking a closed system’s evolution. The galaxy is huge and populated enough to be governed by statistics, yet estill limited to be closed system. The “Mule”? I know only the French name Mulet" does throw a wrench in the whole thing aka chaos. That is why there are two foundations the second one manages the unpredictable events.
As for the writing style well that’s a matter of taste, I love Asimov’s style but am not literate enough to explain why.
