Immaneuel_Kanter

Okay. There’s a question. I typed this up at 1 AM last night when I heard you were doing this AMA. Bear with me.

Asa, Ender's Game changed my life. I read it for the first time when I was twelve years old, all in one night. I got to the ending, didn't believe it, read the ending again, and bawled, hot tears streaming down my face. I stuffed my mouth with my pillow so my parents couldn't hear me cry at four in the morning. Orson Scott Card had chained me to a truck and dragged me without pity through a dirt road, past a lake with a boy, a girl, and a raft in the middle of it in rural North Carolina, through emotions I had never experienced before.

Ender's Game is a part of what made me who I am. This book formed how I imagine. It nurtured a love for literature, books that make you hurt. It showed me the power of words, how you can force someone to imagine what you want them to imagine, even without describing it. It made me respect stories and the power of narrative. I learned that war is something that taints you, and that lessons are more often better when they’re not black and white in their simplicity.

Ender's Game influenced the path my life is taking. I'm a creative writing undergrad, seeking graduate degrees so I can write science fiction novels and short stories professionally and teach fiction writing and sci fi literature at a university somewhere on the planet. For goodness sakes, I just did a presentation on the way Card effectively uses, or rather doesn't use, adjectives and adverbs in Ender's Game in class the other week.

I’m ecstatic that you’re embodying Ender for a whole new group of children and adults who might not have heard of him otherwise, and that your performance will expose so many new readers to the novel. I want nothing more than for this project to succeed very much.

The question: I'm sure you've heard stories like this before, about people’s deep connections to the novel. How does working on a project that means so much to so many make you feel?

The moment I heard you were Ender, I thought back to Hugo and your work with Ben Kingsley, and got real' excited. Then, I heard the girl from True Grit was going to be Petra and I lost consciousness. (I got more excited over that than you. Sorry. I'm sure you understand. I mean. Seriously. Mattie Ross is Petra. Hailee was perfectly cast.)

TL;DR: I’m probably going to weep during your movie. Don’t worry; it’s not your fault. Thanks for putting my childhood hero on the screen.

EDIT: Taking out the spoilers until I figure out why the spoiler tags worked for me and not for some of you all of you, dang nabbit.

I don't want it to be another Hollywood sci-fi piece of shit.

Your candor makes me hopeful.

Thanks for replying! Again, I wish you the best.

Thanks for letting me know. It worked fine on my end, but it might just be a side effect of a plug in.

This is the only story I am absolutely militant about spoilers for.

For downvoters, the creators of Glove and Boots hid lots of money in New York and, as far as I know, no one has managed to find it, even years later.

If I remember correctly, it was thousands of dollars.

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