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Reviews Of
Recently Published Science Fiction And Fantasy Books
Reviewer:
Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
Blog Address:
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January 11, 2016
Gatefather/Ender’s
Game Similarity:
Things Are Not Always
What They Seem To Be
A Review of
Orson Scott
Card Gatefather (Tor, 2015)
383pp $25.99
ISBN: 978-0-7653-2659-1
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
I highly recommend Osron Scott Card’s book
Ender’s Game (but NOT the movie,
which is a gross distortion of the book).
The story in the series it launched is not only a good read, but also
teaches us that things are not always what they seem: in this case Ender’s apparent victory was
actually Xenocide. The same principle is
found in Card’s latest book Gatefather: contrary to what seems to be the desideratum
(opening the Gate), the Gate actually should be kept shut lest a great evil is
set free.
By the way, I am not giving away the story
because the inside book jacket tells us this in its concluding paragraph! It is surprising that the publisher did not
preface this paragraph with a spoiler alert.
But the jacket did not contain the warning to the reader of the inane
actions and dialogues of the immature teens with which the book opens, for
which reason I ceased reading immediately – I could not take any more of
it! In that respect this story differs
from Ender’s Game: those dummies are not even in the same league
with Ender!
