If you’ve read much of the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre, you’ve probably heard of Orson Scott Card. Probably best known for his “Ender” series (beginning with Ender’s Game), he has authored dozens of books and short stories as well as having worked on scripts, comic book novelizations, video game dialogs, and many other projects.
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The Redemption of Planet Earth
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged alternate history, armageddon, atone, author, bacteria, Beowulf, blight, blink, burst, construst, dead, death, denial, destroy, disillusionment, doom, doomsday, eco group, eco warrior, economy, end, Ender, Ender's Game, European, extinction, fantasy, fearmongering, fertile, fiction, giant, global, global warming, government, Homo sapiens, hopeless, human nature, ignorance, imminent, intelligence, invulnerable, knowledge, millenia, New World, nuclear, Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch, personal, planet, pollute, prophecy, quasar, red, Redemption of Christopher Columbus, religion, religious, rule, safety, sci-fi, science fiction, scientist, social, species, stability, stable, survive, time, Wal-Mart, world, zealot on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A New Voice
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged 1970, 1980, accident, advice, author, bargain, beautiful, betrayal, bin, book, bookstore, chance, change, character, child, classroom, coma, comeback, Constant Reader, consumer, death, disappoint, doctors, favorites, genre, gorgeous, Hawke's Harbor, hope, love, minority, mistake, moving, novel, personal, plot, publish, rating, reading, record, recovery, required, review, Rumble Fish, S E Hinton, serious, story, stranger, striking, supernatural, surprise, suspicious, Taming the Star Runner, temptation, Tex, That Was Then This Is Now, The Outsiders, touching, treasure, vampire, voice, wary, wrenching, young adult on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Before I leave yet again, on yet another trip to last at least two weeks, I thought I would share some thoughts on the most recent addition to my reading materials.
Very few people haven’t heard of S. E. Hinton, a young adult genre author who makes the required reading list in most if not all [...]
For the Word-Addicts Among Us…
Posted in General Mischief, Personal Insights, Poetry, Readings, tagged Amazon, author, board, book, competition, discussion, Ex Libris, Facebook, fiction, free, Good Reads, Gucci, Jimmy Choo, literature, MySpace, non-fiction, Poetry, read, review, Stephen King, stories, story, tale, tome, true, Twitter, widget, wordpress, writer on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone with more than a cursory glance at the history of this blog may have noticed several book-based posts. See, I like books. I like readings stories of peoples and places and things; whether or not they are true makes little difference. An author (Stephen King, I think?) once described fiction as [...]
Much Admired
Posted in General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged article, author, book, essay, family, fan, friends, letter, mail, story, thank-you, writer on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Though it often feels like it, I realize I do not experience most things in this life alone. What I mean is, I’m not the only person to ever have experienced a given thing. Reknown author C. S. Lewis once noted, “Nothing, I suspect, is more astonishing in any man’s life than the [...]
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