http://www.burningdoor.com/eric/archives/000605.html Comments and trackbacks for the entry "Shadow of the Hegemon" en-us eric@burningdoor.com eric@burningdoor.com Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:25:47 CDT Books Movable Type v3.14 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.burningdoor.com/eric/archives/000605.html by Orson Scott Card Well, if you liked Ender's Shadow, you'll like this book. I mean, who else is going to be reading this, right? You still have to accept the premise that the world is run by insanely intelligent teenagers sometime in the not-so-distant future. There really aren't many "sci-fi" ideas presented in this book: it's really more like the author is just using the environment he has established from the previous books as a backdrop for various moral and political quandries. The main character, Bean, continues to be intriguing: he's a unique enough character to justify continuing reading this series. So, I'll probably move right along to reading Shadow Puppets as my next book.... http://www.burningdoor.com/eric/archives/000605.html 605@http://www.burningdoor.com/eric/ Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:25:47 CDT Dancing About Architecture