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Originally Posted by Drew  I read Ender's Game as a kid, I think. I'm less into sci-fi these days, but maybe I'll pick it up again. |
This is why I hate the tag "sci-fi". The original Star Wars worked because it was a good story set in a sci-fi world, kind of like Lord of the Rings is "fantasy".
Ender's Game fits that bill. It is an excellent story, set in a sci-fi world. The technology is mentioned insomuch as you need to enough about it to comprehend what is going on, but Card never geeks out on it. Sci-fi writers who waste pages upon pages describing obscure technological concepts, hidden behind the smallest semblance of plot, is what gives the genre a bad name.