![]() This aspect of the novel sits squarely in the foreground and is obvious from the fact that much of the novel’s enduring appeal lies in the fact that it is one enormous Geek power fantasy about a super-smart kid who beats the shit out of his bullies, gets all the cool friends and saves the day despite being misunderstood and persecuted. On the one hand, the story (originally published as a novella in Analog) is a throwback to the golden age of science fiction where genocidal space captains were not seen as particularly problematic characters. Having now watched the film and re-read the novel, I am struck by the fact that Ender’s Game sits rather uncomfortably between two different stools: ![]() Quite possibly the single most commercially successful science fiction novel of all time, Ender’s Game tells the story of a gifted child who is groomed, recruited and trained to become the military commander who will defend Earth against an imminent and unavoidable attack by a race of inscrutable ant-like aliens known as the Formics (the novel’s ambiguously homophobic term ‘buggers’ having been dropped from the film due to the negative press surrounding Card’s activities as an anti-LGBT spokesperson and activist). Videovista has my review of Gavin Hood’s cinematic adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s sinister science fiction novel Ender’s Game. Ballard James Salter Japan Japanese Film Kim Longinotto Last Night LGBT Literary Criticism Manga Masters of Cinema Maurice Pialat Misogyny Noir Olivier Assayas Ooku Pedro Almodovar Politics Postmodernism Psychological Thriller Psychology Racism Religion review Roman Polanski Science Fiction Sexism Short Fiction Some Thoughts On Stalker Stripp'd Theory THE ZONE Thriller TV Video Games Videovista Search Search for: Tag Cloud 2014 2015 American Film Andrei Tarkovsky Anime Art House Art House Film Blasphemous Geometries British Film Capitalism Claude Chabrol Colin Barrett Comedy Comics Consumerism Crime Crime Film criticism Death Documentaries Documentary Empathy Existentialism Fantasy Feminism Film film criticism Film Juice FilmJuice French Film Fumi Yoshinaga Futurismic gender Genre Gestalt Mash GLBT Hadrian's Wall Heart of Darkness Horror J.
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