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After a certain number of words, everything Orson Scott Card writes is at risk of devolving into the exact same plot: 1. Character glimpses a new way of life.
by fennecfoxen 15y ago
After a certain number of words, everything Orson Scott Card writes is at risk of devolving into the exact same plot:
1. Character glimpses a new way of life.
2. Character is misunderstood and persecuted by society.
3. Character collects followers and heads off into the middle of the wilderness to found a new society.
This is an effective summary of not only the Ender's Game series but his Homecoming saga, Alvin Maker series, Lovelock, Wyrms, Treason, and probably a few others.
See also: Salt Lake City.
- sp332 15y agoYou know how almost half of his writing is Mormon (LDS) fiction? Well, maybe all of it is :)
- jff 15y agoThe Homecoming saga is literally the Book of Mormon... IN SPAAAAAACE! It sort of holds up until the last book, then he completely loses it--I was able to sort of read the early books simply as S.F. but eventually it got too Mormon for me to handle.