>>Must be an interesting person to know. Years ago I went on a jag of reading his stuff and rather enjoyed a lot of it. Think I started with "Enders Game"
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>One of the great SF books of all time, and "Speaker for the Dead" was an astonishing sequel. Card is an amazing writer. A writer who really thinks hard about what he's trying to say.
Get into
Wokan Furies yet?
By the way, have we ever discussed Ross Thomas? I'm rereading (well, re-hearing actually on CD )
Chinaman's Chance He was really something special. Some of the most vivid characters I've ever met in any fiction. Good to clear the palate if somebody held your mother hostage and made you read Grisham, Ludlum, Clancy ...
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>>>OUCH! Don't poke so hard *G*... Knowing Scott, he'd prolly use either term.
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>>>>(poke in ribs)
>>>>Uh, Craig, that would be "researched", okay? :)))
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
