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Impro Connections in Ender’s Game

‘At Battle School Fighting Is Compulsory’ says the banner over the title of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.  This has the reputation of a sci-fi classic and I was prompted to read it when Thiagi mentioned it in his presentation at the Applied Improvisation Network conference in Chicago.

 

My context for reading it is that most of the books I read are non-fiction, and I enjoy peppering these with the occasional luxurious dip into a fictional universe.

 

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