Orson Scott Card Quotes
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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At the time Japan had a strong Fascist military wing and the army was not under the control of the civilian government. The government diplomats were less aggressive and expansionist as the military was. The Japanese diplomats would assure other governments like the United States of their peaceful intentions and then the Japanese army would do something that was completely contradictory. As the militarist wing gained domination over the government, the diplomats would strategically lie, and then claim what whatever the army did, was done be rogue officers and was not part of government policy. See {627085}.
The colonists did not have great support from England before the Revolution especially with science and technology were British policy was to keep the colonies dependent on the mother country. As a result many Americans had to be very ingenious in order to function and they invented many clever ways of doing things without the right tools and equipment. Under wartime conditions this served them well.
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003).
