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- The Best Books Like DuneReading list
While it may not transport you to the spice-rich deserts of an alien planet, “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card does offer a complex blend of strategy, survival, and ethical quandaries that would satiate any “Dune” devotee. Meet young Ender Wiggin, a boy who is humanity’s last hope against the formidable insectoid…
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Ender’s Game is a classic science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card, which tells the story of a young boy’s recruitment into an interstellar war. The government is trying to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, so they breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. Andrew…
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- Jeremy KaplowitzInterview
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card meant a lot to me growing and it is an absolute shame that Card turned out to be a pretty terrible person. I recommend that anyone who hasn’t read it should pirate Ender’s Game.
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- Carol E. ReileyInterview
The books I recommend the most are also my all-time favorite books, and they are: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. All for very different reasons. I’ve reread them multiple times. Growing up, I also loved Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud…
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Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson. Pure indulgence! The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell: a brilliant “first-contact” novel that becomes a serious meditation on faith, the problem of evil, and personhood. The sequel, Children of God, is a tour de force follow-up that manages to get its readers to…
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