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Old 07-22-2013, 07:11 PM   #61
Hamlet53
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
From Amazon's Book Description for Ender's Game:



The "Buggers" are an invasive insectoid alien species that threaten the survival of humanity. If anyone but Orson Scott Card had christened them with that name, I probably wouldn't think anything about it, but coming from him, it just sounds like a cruel joke from a cold heart.

If this wins, I won't be reading it.
Oh my gosh! I read Ender's Game a while a back and that had never occurred to me. I just took “bugger” as appropriate nickname for a hated “insectoid alien species.” Of course that was before I knew anything about Card or his views.
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