Orson Scott Card is going to write "Iron Man" comics

[thehefner]

"Ultimate Iron Man," to be precise.

I've never read ENDER'S GAME, but considering it's one of the all time favorite novels of at least three of my friends, maybe I should now. And maybe I should be excited about this news. Currently, I am just intrigued.

Thought I'd just throw that one out there, since I imagine the folks here would get more out of that news than I.

Comments

[surrealname.livejournal.com]

WOOT, ENDER'S GAME!

[ortugatay.livejournal.com]

I'm not even a big science fiction person, but that book is one of THE best I have ever read--hands down. In the past year I've reread it at least twice. I'd recommend giving it a try if you ever have the time.

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

Ender's Game is one of the best science fiction novels I've ever read. The first time I read it all in one go (I was a very lonely freshman in college) and then flipped it around and started it again. It's that good. I reread it every few years, and yeah: it's still that good.

But ya know what? I haven't liked everything Card wrote. The initial set of sequels to Ender's Game (Xenocide, Speaker for the Dead, another one so boring I can't even remember its name) didn't thrill me. I didn't care for Speaker for the Dead, not even when I reread it a few months ago. It won both the Hugo and the Nebula (prizes by the fans and the writers, respectively; it's a hell of a book to win both), but I can't help but think they were trying to award Ender's Game again. The second set of sequels were much better, and more in keeping with Ender's Game, but they were only good to my mind, and kind of petered out.

Oddly, my second-favorite of his books may be Saints, which isn't sci-fi at all; it's historical fiction.

I don't go out of my way to read anything of his. Much of it is very good, much is so-so. But damn, to have had one truly amazing book is more than any author can ask.

[lariel.livejournal.com]

I'm actually quite a fan of Enchantment, that fantasy novel of his that came out a few years ago... But I like a lot of fantasy, and also fairy tales.