Honestly, I’ve always been kind of “meh” about science fiction. But as I get older it appeals to me more and more. Mostly because the authors tends to be so very imaginative, so complex. My husband’s very favorite books are the Ender’s Game/Ender’s Shadow series by Orson Scott Card. He’s read and reread them since we’ve known each other. I read Ender’s Game in college but wasn’t really interested in getting further into the series.

I reread Ender’s Game in 2013 and picked up the next book, Speaker from the Dead almost as soon as I was finished. As Mr. V points out, for both Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead to have won Nebula awards in consecutive years means Speaker had to be really, really good. And it is. The science and creative thinking that go into a novel like this amaze me.