Ooh so Orson Scott Card has been writing more Ender books. Is that good or bad?
Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender’s first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays.
The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older students, doesn’t see it that way. He thinks that giving gifts isn’t exactly a religious observation, and on Sinterklaas Day he tucks a present into another student’s shoe.
This small act of rebellion sets off a battle royal between the students and the staff, but some surprising alliances form when Ender comes up against a new student, Zeck Morgan. The War over Santa Claus will force everyone to make a choice.
Dink Meeker doesn’t interest me much though. Not an important character. Then again, even Bean wasn’t great. I guess I wouldn’t mind reading the book, although nothing comes close to Ender’s Game. It was probably coz Ender’s Game was a story he really wanted to tell, and everything was built around it, and has never been able to leave it.
The other book Intergalactic Medicine Show, while set in Ender Universe, doesn’t seem to have Ender in it. Bleh.