Dear SF writers of the world

[james_davis_nicoll]

I hit my lifetime tolerance for heroic tales of children drafted into draconian, high mortality super-soldier programs justified as required for the greater good sometime around the end of the novel version of Ender's Game. Please adjust your story lines accordingly.

Comments

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

I think that may be changing somewhat now that the book is required reading in middle school rather than a hand-to-hand classic. My son certainly classed it with all the holocaust fiction he was expected to read: YA is supposed to be depressing.

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

When did Ender's Game start being marketed as YA? As best as I can remember when it first came out, it was just another adult SF book. It wasn't until some years later that I saw it with a different cover being shelved in the YA section, and it struck me as deeply weird.

I mean, it's not like I would forbid a middle-school/junior-high kid under my jurisdiction to read it; but if such a kid were to ask me for suggestions, Ender's Game would not be the first book to come to mind, nor even the 500th book.

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

It can be marketed as both, I suppose. I saw Life of Pi in both the literature and young adult sections, in very different editions (differing size, cover, and font size).