Favorite Science Fiction Book?

hkobb7
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:15:04 +0000

And here I thought I’d be original in saying Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow. The sequels to Ender’s Game weren’t really my thing, though. The series that followed Shadow was much more “geopolitical thriller” than “science fiction”, and it was very entertaining, but the dialogue (in all the books, at least some of the time, anyway) is painfully stilted, which I guess is the product of having a load of impossibly precocious kids as your cast.

There’s a film version due out in the near future, though I’m not sure whether it will be centered in “Game” or “Shadow”, or if it will combine the two (I doubt it; the movie would be longer than the original cut of Gettysburg). And it features a lot of the trendy child actors, plus Harrison Ford, so reading the books in advance might be a good idea.