If you compare Enders Game the book to Starship Troopers the book you can see two very different takes on the context of the military, individuals and citizenry. With Enders you have to wait six or seven books to realize it was a mass of people and events behind what in the first book is played out as a monologue. Also in Enders Game we see the siblings as Locke and Demosthenes doing for politics what Ender is doing for the war effort, that is a pair of monologues  running the show. Starship Troopers on the other hand shows group think, collaborative effort and a socio/poltical system that requires all who want the title to do the heavy lifting. More a chorus to Enders Game solos.Â
(and yes Ender learns how the power of friendship is important…but he learsn it is important in order to support his grand solo in the key of me. That he regrets his actions, again..me me me me me. )
In which John answers real questions from real nerdfighters in a Question Tuesday on a Friday. The W
