This is a book review (co-written with Tim Miller) of Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card. And more than likely could contain what some might consider to be spoilers for the upcoming Ender’s Game movie.
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The 1985 science fiction novel, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, takes place in a time when humanity has encountered an enemy other than himself, a nonhuman enemy from outer space. When we first encountered the enemy, called buggers because of their resemblance to insects, we almost lost our species to their advanced or different fighting methods. One brave soul managed to wipe out their second advance and for now, humanity has won a reprieve.
But, we also know this lull in our attempted extermination won’t last forever and humanity must prepare for that next encounter. The plan is not to wait for the buggers but to send armed forces to attack the bugger’s home planet led by the best and brightest military-minded humans.
{“In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister, Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut–young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.”}
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MM9 is from VIZ Media/Haikasoru… and written by Hiroshi Yamamoto, translated by Nathan Collins.
The book is rated “T” for Teen, but I have to say, teen rated or not, this was a fun and entertaining read. But I’m a bit biased on the genre covered by the publication.
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MM9 is a book for the giant monster fan in all of us. We are taken to a world where giant monsters exist and are are treated like weather phenomenon or earthquakes.
This is a world that reminds me very much of what I anticipate will be like Guillermo del Toro‘s upcoming movie, Pacific Rim, that has to do with giant monsters and how humanity deals with them.
But MM9 is different and is a fun read.
In MM9, the world is populated by monsters of different shapes and sizes and an organization is set up to discover and deal with them. The monsters can range from plant size to, well, monster-sized big!
The monsters are tracked by the staff in the Meteorological Agency, Monsterological Measures Department (MMD), an anti-monster squad. And they call their monsters kaiju. When the MMD discovers a monster, they rank it, depending on a combination of destructive potential and size. The monster scale ranges from up to MM9… Monster Magnitude 9. This is the biggest and baddest of the monsters.
The story or set of stories takes us through a few cases with the MMD, ranging from a simple but fascinating sea monster to one big daddy of a monster that threatens the very fabric of humanity.
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