Imagine you’re a fighter pilot, and you’re going to do a hull run to blow up some important part of some giant space ship. You have a mental map of the ship’s structure, and it’s probably “right side up”, so while navigating along the hull you’re probably going to orient your fighter to your mental model to take that much off your very heavy cognitive load.
I remember the first four being good. I seem to recall liking Ender’s Shadow, but that may have been nostalgia for the original. Didn’t read any beyond that.
What’s crazy is that those first four are deeply about how important empathy is, even for thinking beings that are so drastically different from ourselves that that seem utterly alien. And then, yadda yadda yadda, you should only borrow them from the library or buy them from a used book store.
Imagine you’re a fighter pilot, and you’re going to do a hull run to blow up some important part of some giant space ship. You have a mental map of the ship’s structure, and it’s probably “right side up”, so while navigating along the hull you’re probably going to orient your fighter to your mental model to take that much off your very heavy cognitive load.
“The enemy’s gate is down.”
I’ve only read the first book. Are the others worth putting up with the author being a shitheel?
I remember the first four being good. I seem to recall liking Ender’s Shadow, but that may have been nostalgia for the original. Didn’t read any beyond that.
What’s crazy is that those first four are deeply about how important empathy is, even for thinking beings that are so drastically different from ourselves that that seem utterly alien. And then, yadda yadda yadda, you should only borrow them from the library or buy them from a used book store.