#21stcenturydesd #zombieanthology #zombie #anthology #chelseacain #orsonscottcard #sgbrowne #amberbenson #jonathanmaberry #danielhwilson #newpurchase #bookstagram #midureads #bookishmug #bookish

> What's on your mind?

Just finished "Speaker For The Dead", Orson Scott Card.

"Jane" joins my list of "aliens" I'd most like to have as a friend

Somebody else once tried to sell me on "The Truth Will Set You Free"; I'm not buying it anymore, but it sure makes a great read.

(Some "real aliens among us" seem to have special powers against the "speaking of the truth" these days).

#SpeakerForTheDead
#OrsonScottCard
#AndrewWiggins
#CareAboutTheTruth
#ThereAreNoAlternativeFacts

In my teens I was profoundly affected by a small number of books that I read. As a result of reading them I became intensely interested in the politics of pacifism and the strategies of conflict resolution and resistance. My introduction to science fiction was a suitcase full of books given to me by my dad’s best friend. I was at that stage in a Reading Child’s life where I’d have read baked bean cans, so I plowed through an eclectic selection of books.

The first two to really affect me were Joe Haldeman’s All My Sins Remembered (1977) and Brian Stableford’s The Florians (1976). In the first—a fix-up—an intergalactic agent, selected precisely because he is conflict averse, begins to crumble as a consequence of the pressures between his childhood Buddhist upbringing and the violence he has experienced and perpetrated in his job. In the second, a man who has lost his son to a pacifist movement discovers while on a mission the power of saying “No” when faced with the threat of violence.

These books led me to the Quakers. I started attending when I was 15 and joined in my mid-20s. I pursued a master’s degree in peace studies and eventually a doctorate in peace history. At the same time I was looking out for alternatives to conflict in science fiction. Orson Scott Cards’ Speaker for the Dead (1986), with its argument that Truth is a very powerful weapon, blew me away. Judith Moffett’s anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist Pennterra (1987) and Joan Slonczewski’s Still Forms on Foxfield (1980), with its refuseniks and the calm seeking of consensus which is a feature of both novels (even if Moffett’s Quakers achieve it amazingly quickly) taught me to slow down in my own decision making. Piers Anthony’s Golem in the Gears (1986) introduced me to the concept of game play in decision making and thinking through decision trees. And Harry Harrison’s The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987) taught me about the potential for mass civil disobedience, in its depiction of a pacifist population concluding that the civil contract is so broken that it no longer needs to adhere to its side of the bargain.

Not all resistance is direct. Some is about creating a new paradigm and taking the world along with you. Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue (1984) argues that if you change the language, you change the way people think and you change the world. In the book the revolution fails, but considerable changes in our world have been brought about this way, which may be why language has become a primary target for the American presidential administration. Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) takes this even further; new language and a new mindset lead to a new religious order which remakes the world. Resistance can also be about living your life in an active mode of refusal; in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Ti-Jeanne and Gross-Jeane fight day by day to resist the world they live in, and to help others survive. In Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors (2023), resistance focuses on the power of religion as those who are not the chosen, whose prophecies do not come true, seek to shape a new way of living. Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire (2019) is about resistance to cultural imperialism on an inter-galactic scale, and Darcie Little Badger’s A Snake Falls to Earth (2021) operates at both a metaphysical and a local level.

A recent author to take on the topic of resistance is Naomi Kritzer in a trilogy of tales from 2023. The short story “Better Living Through Algorithms” exhorts workers to take control of their lives and collaborate in their leisure as an act of resistance to corporate wellness culture. “The Year Without Sunshine” is another story that emphasizes community resistance to external paradigms of sink-or-swim libertarianism, while Liberty’s Daughter sees the underclasses on a seastead—bonded laborers and the noncitizen children of citizens—use the disruption of a plague to raise their own value and force a redistribution of property. It is very utopian, but its core message is that our labor matters, solidarity is our strength, and that injustice is not inevitable; all important messages right now.

https://seattlein2025.org/2025/07/04/fantastic-fiction-resistance-2/

#ArkadyMartine #BrianStableford #DarcieLittleBadger #HarryHarrison #JoanSlonczewski #JoeHaldeman #JudithMofett #NaloHopkinson #NaomiKritzer #OctaviaButler #OrsonScottCard #PiersAnthony #SuzetteHadenElgin #VajraChandrasekera

Fantastic Fiction: Resistance: In my teens I was profoundly affected by a small number of books that I read. As a result of reading them I became intensely interested in the politics of pacifism and the str (#ArkadyMartine #BrianStableford #DarcieLittleBadger #HarryHarrison #JoanSlonczewski #JoeHaldeman #JudithMofett #NaloHopkinson #NaomiKritzer #OctaviaButler #OrsonScottCard #PiersAnthony #SuzetteHadenElgin #VajraChandrasekera)

Full post: https://seattlein2025.org/2025/07/04/fantastic-fiction-resistance-2/

Which Orson Scott Card book was this in again?

Edit: maybe Speaker for the Dead?

[image in linked post shows a man with a crown and a red robe lying on a rug, with a tree growing out of his abdomen; various other medieval characters around, some in crowns]

https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/114685614592677385

#OrsonScottCard

Finished Reading:

The Last Shadow
by
Orson Scott Card

Two Thumbs Up!
👍 🤖 👍

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Shadow

#Literature
#SciFi
#ScienceFiction
#books
#bookstodon
#coverart
#OrsonScottCard
Groups:
@books
@scifi
@Scifiart
@sciencefiction

Bienvenidos a FICCIÓPATAS en nuestro trigésimo episodio de la tercera temporada.

Hoy destripamos «El mejor día» de Orson Scott Card, que se encuentra dentro de su antología «Mapas en un espejo III: Fábulas y Fantasías» (B de Bolsillo, 2019). Orson Scott Card (24 de agosto de 1951) es un escritor estadounidense de ciencia ficción y otros géneros literarios. Su obra más conocida es «El juego de Ender». Es autor de numerosas novelas («Niños perdidos», «El cofre del tesoro») y diversas sagas como «La Saga del Retorno» o las historias de «Alvin Maker». Ganador del Nébula de 1985 y el Hugo de 1986 a la mejor novela por «El juego de Ender» y el Nébula de 1986 y Hugo de 1987 por «La voz de los muertos».

¿Conoces al autor? ¿Has leído algo de él? Háznoslo saber en los comentarios.🧐

Podéis escuchar el Episodio 30 de Ficciópatas T3:

- en iVoox a través de este enlace https://go.ivoox.com/rf/144542187
- en YouTube en https://youtu.be/cB0y-UKNbsQ
- o a través de https://linktr.ee/ficciopatas para el resto de plataformas.

Gracias a todos por vuestra fidelidad y apoyo. 😉🖖🏼

#ficciopatas #podcast #spanishwriters #victormorata
#ericluna #victormorataescritor #ericlunaescritor #victormoratawriter #ericlunawriter #relatoscortos #bookstagram #bookstagramespaña #escribirficcion
#escrituracreativa #relatos #escribirficcion #youtube
#destripamosrelatos #trigésimoepisodio #temporada3 #OrsonScottCard #Elmejordía #Mapadeespejos #FábulasyFantasías #BdeBolsillo #moraleja #cuentos
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIX83EGtYte/?igsh=eXJ0eHY1MXkzdXBj

Bienvenidos de nuevo a nuestra mesa de disección. Aquí os dejamos un adelanto de lo que se viene este domingo en el trigésimo episodio de esta tercera temporada de FICCIÓPATAS.

Feliz día. 😉🖖🏼

#victormorata #ericluna #siervosdelaguadaña #UniversoMagico #lasombradelnagual #elartedemantenerseaflote #algoteesperaeneldesierto #ficciopatas #ficciopataspodcast #podcast #temporada3 #temporada20242025 #avancepodcast #trailer #avance #destripandohistorias #orsonscottcard #elmejordía #mapadeespejos #fabulasyfantasias #bdebolsillo
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DINnqZIIpLt/?igsh=MXB6YWt6YTV3eWo2dQ==

„Kann ein Junge die Menschheit retten? [...]“ (Umschlagtext)

Natürlich stammen unglaublich viele Stoffe, die wir aus Filmen kennen, ursprünglich aus Büchern, Romanen. […]

Mehr: https://tinyurl.com/ta4u6mjf

(Übersetzung: Karl-Ulrich Burgdorf)

#lesewinter #roman #orsonscottcard #heyne #scifi #menschheit #aliens #krieg #strategie #feind #kriegslogik #lesen #leselust #leseratte #bücher #literatur

Hoy os cuento unas cositas sobre «Un planeta llamado Traición», una novela menor dentro de la obra de Orson Scott Card aunque bastante disfrutable 🚀

https://bit.ly/4bpaiTT

#cienciaficcion #orsonscottcard #scottcard #ender #fantasia #spaceopera #planetcalledtreason #planetatraicion

Milkshake Duck Status and Rationales: A list of currently known milkshake ducks, how I’m treating their work in my own consumption habits …

Read the rest: https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2024/12/22/milkshake-duck-status-and-rationales/ (#JKRowling #MilkshakeDuck #NeilGaiman #OrsonScottCard #ScottAdams #WoodyAllen)

"If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much sausage he served on the side [ed]." — Orson Scott Card — — — #OrsonScottCard #quote #quotes #pigs #slaughter #farmer #feed #food #kill #quip #choice

Nineteen books of Ender's Universe #Ender #OrsonScottCard #TORBooks #Novels #books waiting for The Queens to come out.

Ender's Gum

#DentalABook #HashtagGames #OrsonScottCard #EndersGame

#Retrocomputing & #SciFi trivia: During his brief tenure as Compute! Magazine’s book editor in 1983, #EndersGame author #OrsonScottCard contracted Craig Chamberlain to write #programming books on the #Commodore64 based on the latter’s work on the #Atari 400 and 800 Pokey Player #music system.

Chamberlain’s second Compute! book, “All About the #Commodore 64, Volume Two,” was the first appearance of #Sidplayer, which would become the US's most popular #C64 music system.

https://www.sidplayer.org/history_promotional.html

#endersgame #orsonscottcard #sf #newpurchase #midureads #books #reading #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #kibf

📚 Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card: Not the strongest book in the series, but with a series this strong, that's not at all a bad review. (#EndersSaga #OrsonScottCard)

Full post on Eclecticism: https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2023/03/20/%f0%9f%93%9a-children-of-the-mind-by-orson-scott-card/

@evildrganymede I have just started #OrsonScottCard latest series “pathfinder”. Excellent treatment of time and space physics and space travel. Hard work following the logic but well worth it. #scifi

Buying #thehive by #orsonscottcard and #aaronjohnston was a #gamble but one that I took because a. I liked #endersgame and b. #hardcover
Have you taken any #gambles that turned out well recently?
#midureads #newpurchase #kibf #scifi #reading #books #bookstagram #bookstagrammer

📚 Xenocide by Orson Scott Card: Once again, I’m struck that an author who wrote so compellingly on empathy for others failed to see how to apply his own ideas in the real world. (#Ender'sSaga #OrsonScottCard)

Full post on Eclecticism: https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2023/03/14/%f0%9f%93%9a-xenocide-by-orson-scott-card/