ender's game is a photocopy of the haldemann book 'forever war'. EG is maybe better-liked by kids but it gets war wrong. Haldemann wrote forever war after coming back from vietnam.
> ender's game is a photocopy of the haldemann book 'forever war'.
No, it really isn't. Certainly they deal with many of the same themes, and if you want to say that Haldemann does a much better job then I can probably agree with that, but accusing Ender's Game of being a mere rip-off just because they address similar topics is silly.
similar topics, at similar settings, in similar order. especially if you remember that speaker for the dead was written first; OSC created EG as a prequel, liked it better, and published first. Speaker for the dead probably comes from card's life experience being a mormon missionary (hint: the piggies are the brown people he went to convert). Ender's Game comes from his life experience reading haldemann.
(OSC is also a weird and outspoken homophobe; easy to see him (a) misunderstanding forever war and (b) liking it for the wrong reasons).
Look, card is clearly the better writer between the two of them. He added a lot. But if you want to put forward war fiction as a case for empathy, it's irresponsible to look at EG before FW.
You can certainly say that Ender's Game makes a poor case for empathy, and you can make a case that it was inspired by The Forever War. But that's very different from saying it's a "photocopy".
> Ender's Game was written specifically to establish the character of Ender for his role of the Speaker in Speaker for the Dead, the outline for which he had written before novelizing Ender's Game.
Forever war goes a lot less into the psychology of the individual and more into the societal psychology, but only barely because it takes place over such a huge timescale.
The continuation of enders war do go into much more societal factors.
