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This third installment in what is apparently the "Ender quartet" moves much slower than Speaker for the Dead, with none of the increased character exploration that accompanied Speaker's comparative slowdown over Ender's Game. The sub-story involving world of Path was intriguing, but it was not enough to hold my interest in an otherwise ponderous narrative. And the ending...wow. Most obvious deus ex machina I've ever seen in fiction. Way to write yourself into a corner and then invent solutions out of thin air, Card - and yet still leave the major crisis of the story unresolved! The fleet of ships headed to destroy Lusitania at the beginning of the novel are still on their way at its close.
I have to say, I didn't think a writer who cared enough about science to show time dilation in close-to-light-speed travel would then suggest that FTL travel was possible just by *wishing* for it hard enough.
I don't think I'll be reading Children of the Mind.
I have to say, I didn't think a writer who cared enough about science to show time dilation in close-to-light-speed travel would then suggest that FTL travel was possible just by *wishing* for it hard enough.
I don't think I'll be reading Children of the Mind.
