On a related note

[james_davis_nicoll]

What should go on a Top Ten "In retrospect, what the hell were we thinking" list of once-popular SF?

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[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Ender's Game, absolutely.

I'm already at that stage with most of Heinlein. Oh, and The Stars My Destination - it's the Count Of Monte Cristo, in spaaaaaaace, and badly written. And yet, somehow, it's a classic?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I remember being rather surprised on rereading Space Viking that the casual acts of mass [1] murder carried out by the protagonist never really registered as somewhat morally iff when I read the book as a teenager.

1: On a scale perhaps an order of magnitude higher than anyone on Earth has managed.