Ender's Game

What elements or considerations would be important for an outer space sport? So we're going to drill a bit deeper into what we just discussed.

He says, I'm guessing it's a he, William, I would love to see an Ender's Game style arena, but what would really be entertaining to watch people compete at in space? So we've got, again, the entertainment.

I need someone to hit the floor.

I need entertaining.

Where is the risk factor that we all are going to watch someone defy the risk due to their expertise?

Right.

For those people who aren't familiar with Ender's Game, that was a novel written by Orson Scott Card a number of decades ago, where to fight an alien menace, a number of children were put into a place called the battle school.

And they were out in space and trying to figure out all kinds of new strategies and methods that the adults put them in.

But when it really hit me that writing was something people could do for their career.

It was in like ninth grade, I read Ender's Game.

And because I loved that book, I read everything I could get my hands on by Orson Scott Card, which included a bunch of books about writing.

Oh, interesting.

One, what was your favorite book series or movie series or whatever when you were like 13 years old?

My favorite book when I was 13 years old was definitely Ender's Game.

Ender's Game.

Problematic fave.

What was the thing you liked the most about Ender's Game? I

liked that kids who were smarter than the adults were acknowledged for being so instead of oppressed for being so.

Ooh, real.

I felt like a god most of the time in the Zero-G part.

And even like, it also felt very Ender's Game-like to me.

It really was smooth.

transition into into true zero g where you had complete freedom of movement to the point where i was like losing track of where up and down was uh which was a lot of fun except for when the stupid fucking demy babies were still trying to figure out where they were coming from um another great detail is how the sound goes out when you go outside the ship and you can no longer rely on the sound cues to find enemies the number of times some scorpion fucker just like jumped onto my back after i did something

I read a bookseller.com article and summarized its appeal, male protagonist, easily digestible, camaraderie is primary relationship, but it seems like it's a new enough term that we can make it mean whatever we want.

Okay, so who would like to nominate book slash series that could be considered Guy-fi? I think an easy addition could be good ol' Ender's Game.

I'd call Heinlein the grandfather of Guy-Fi, so I'd nominate Starship Troopers as well.

For the record, this genre does not appeal to me at all, TBH, but it's fun to look back at my books and say, was that Guy-Fi?

I was eight years old and saw the Next Generation episode cause an effect, and the show turned me into an instant Trekkie.

As a teenager, my best friend and I wore out his VHS copies of the Star Wars trilogy, and my uncle gave me copies of Dune, Ender's Game, and Asimov's Foundation series.

Science fiction became my favorite genre, and even today when I tend to read more non-fiction, I'll still pick up a classic sci-fi novel and devour it in a day or two.

There's something wonderfully compelling about science fiction.

Notable people include Fantasia Barrino, winner of American Idol Season 3.

Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, and Bill Tudor, founder of Tudor's Biscuit World.

Okay, that one I'm unfamiliar with, but yeah.

Well, hopefully Lydia gets it right home.

There's an entire alternative act, too, that would be so much more satisfying, fulfilling, dramatically interesting.

But also, before we get to the translator chip, which is great, and the aliens, it bears mentioning, like, we cannot ignore the existence of Ender's Game.

Ender's Game also exists.

At this point, I believe, when did it come out in literary form? I should have looked that up.

I think

I think it had already come out, yeah.

I have not seen the film because I've heard it's garbage.

85, Ender's Game came out the following year.