Just finished this OSC sequel to Ender's Shadow. Though I'm not particularly fond of
the veiled proselytizing in both these books, they are well written and interesting.
Perhaps even more interesting is Mr. Cards after word. He recommends Guns Germs and
Steel ("...should be required reading by everyone who writes history or historical
fiction, just so they understand the ground rules") Dis's Clinton's foreign policy
("How likely is it that someone who took part in the Clinton administration's immoral
decision to launch unprovoked attacks on Afghanistan and the Sudan in the late summer
of 1998 would be able to write a novel in which the political exigencies that led to
these criminal acts are accurately recounted.") And some harsh criticism of America
(...America is now a nation in decline, and my people have little will to be well led.
America's past and its resources make it a major player for the nonce, but nations of
small resources but strong will can change the cour!
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se of history, as the Huns, the Mongols and the Arabs have shown, sometimes to
devastating effect, and as the people of the Ganges have shown far more pacifically")
Kind of interesting stuff from an American Mormon Science Fiction (among other things)
writer. Especially the America in decline stuff in light of recent discussions.
Doug
Who's not sure he doesn't have a point.
