Hot sleep
by Orson Scott Card · first published 1979
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…Orson Scott Card. It's one of his earliest works, so it isn't as well-produced as some of his later stuff, but it explores some very interesting ideas. (This story began life as a different novel called Hot Sleep. Having read both, I honestly can't remember which parts are in which version, but Card himself says he considers The Worthing Saga to be the official version) (hint: in Card's story, cryotech created…
on “The fusion energy dream is inching toward planet-saving reality” ↗I think Orson Scott Card also writes something similar in the book 'Hot Sleep'. Long story short, some people wanted to recreate society by starting a primitive colony where there was know to be iron ore under the surface. They didn't fare too well...
on “Are We Losing the Secrets of the Masters?” ↗…convincingly retold by Jo Walton: "My C shelves begin, controversially, with Orson Scott Card, who was one of my favourite authors for a long time but whom I can no longer read. I started reading him with Hot Sleep and A Planet Called Treason in the early 80s, and I stopped in 1997, so I have read absolutely everything up to then and nothing since. I stopped reading him because he said in his book on how to write…
on “Ender's Game is an Understated Story of Uncertainty” ↗