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Originally Posted by noodles
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.
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I feel the same way about Vonnegut. Sure, you could call the guy sci-fi.... but that's not the
point. Vonnegut writes about what it means to be human - he just occasionally uses some pretty far-reaching sci-fi elements to get there.