#ender quartet

[macbethz]

Ender arrives on Lusitania

this is a concept that's been floating around my head for a long time, loosely based on the virgin of the lilies

[flutenby]

Reading the Ender quartet and found no homophobia (like obvious enough to make me note it when I'm drawn into the plot) until page 327 of the 4th book. So close. But then we get uhh "as a woman loves a man" and that's 1000 kinds of gross

[macbethz]

hegemony

tfw you are the clone of humanity’s greatest leader made from his brothers memories of you as his childhood tormentor 

[peroxxideprincess]

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

Children of the mind, Orson Scott Card

[appley-snow]

"Don't trifle with this, Peter," said Wang-Mu. "Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent."

Orson Scott Card, calling himself out in Children of the Mind

[coverspy]

Xenocide, Orson Scott Card (F, 20s, khaki rain coat, black Converse shoes, well-read mass market copy, L train)

[coconutwirelessfiji]

Wang-Mu had been glad enough to leave Path. But she was by no means certain that Pacifica was the world where she wanted to live the rest of her life. Especially if she was to stay with Peter, for there was no chance he would be content for long with the slower, more lackadaisical timeflow of life in the islands. Truth be known, it was too slow for her, too. She loved her time with the Samoans, but the impatience to be doing something was growing inside her. Perhaps those who grew up among these people might somehow sublimate their ambition, or perhaps there was something in the racial genotype that suppressed it or replaced it, but Wang-Mu's incessant drive to strengthen and expand her role in life was certainly not going to go away just because of a luau on the beach, however much she enjoyed it and would treasure the memory of it.

Children of the Mind, Orson Scott Card

[frenchfrybowties]

My brother got me the Ender quartet for Christmas and I love Xenocide so much. Now I need the bean saga.