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Suri plays out well! And makes sense, as gross as it may be it does pivot around one person.

Card good at micro-conflicts still. A little too much of games within games, but that’s what the book is for so fine! This last puzzle has a lot of good intrigue. Can’t remember the resolution.

Interesting they don’t reference Iran grand Ayatollah model

Alien earth borrowed a lot of this plot!!

Interesting that a lot of his or very close guesses about future war and geopolitics, but no drone warfare on earth even though Ender fought with drones

Something insightful: (Narcissists are) hungry to find something that really matters in life.” And they hate those who have

Why would the first thing Bean and Achilles share be a “love” of Petra?!
The fucking grew up on the same streets, in the same gang, and both had disabilities that made them outcasts!

Muslims and Jews work together but all Muslims inherently want to go away from democracy of they could. Yet the west elected dictator hegemon

What kind of messed up relationships is Card modeling where no one says what they really feel, to the point where other parties have to lie or force things to happen which they THINK the other party feels “in their genes” (a gross statement)

And yet, for all card likes a dictator who doesn’t have red tape an independent system means Achilles wouldn’t be able to charm loyalty, it would be to something else entirely