I thought Ender was younger than his fellow launchies. So was Bean, I think.

This is set sometime in the future, so I'm going to infer that people are less supsceptible to disease and the like. Technology would be more advanced, and so would medicine. Plus, even though Earth is overcrowded, no one is confident enough that the numbers are big enough the buggers won't blow eve...

How old were the kids when they were blasted off to Battle School? I don't think the book said. And if it did, I wasn't paying attention.

It's interesting how the slang isn't used as much in Battle School as much as it's used after the war.

Now I just need to recruit someone and convert him or her to OSC fiendhood and then we can go around talking in Battle School Slang.

I don't agree with some of his views either but I've decided that the fact that I like some of his books and the fact that I don't agree with every last thought in his head is unrelated.

EG was my second OSC book. I finally forced myself to read it after my obsession with Songmaster toned down.

This forum is very sleepy. I started becoming an OSC fiend after a chance encounter in my school's library, when I just so happened to pick up Songmaster. Still my favourite book. Still love Ansset the most. After that, during a period of about two months or so, I became a true OSC fiend after I mas...