>he invents a swear word for people in his fantasy/sci-fi

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>>8469883
>he invents a whole dialect/sub-language for a novella with less than 100 pages
>affected "fans" throw the words from the dialect at random when the work is mentioned

>>8469883
>>he invents a swear word for people in his fantasy/sci-fi realm
Not bad if the swear word's evolution makes sense.

But old scifi books seem to have a tendency to be deliberately cheesy.
Ender's biggest enemy is the evil BUGGER menace, and in the second book it's the PIGGIES. Both books read like they expect to be taken seriously, which is funny.

>>8469883
Invented words are always acceptable so long as their meaning is intuitive, which is the case here.

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>>8469883

I think a lot about what he would have written if he had lived longer. I once heard it said he was moving from an obsession with Dostoevsky (whose influence can obviously be seen in his early work) and reading a great deal more Tolstoy. I don't know how true that was, but there is the stereotype of Dostoevsky being a "young man's" writer and that we move onto Tolstoy with time (a simplification, which nevertheless contains elements of truth).

As it stands I can't rank him as a great novelist, but for some reason, I get the feeling that, if he had lived longer, and really assimilated the messages of Tolstoy, using him as inspiration in same way he used Dosto, then he would have produced a truly great novel, one undeniably up there with the 20th century greats, and would have founded a stream of literature, which set itself apart by lacking the teenage elements of Dosto (the obsession with nihilism, the constant pervasive sense of drama(Dosto was the greatest playwright never to have written a play)), which plague his earlier work, and following instead the Tolstoyan model.

Instead, the 20th century became a Dostoyevskyan century, every work a lesser fragmentation of his Brothers Karamazov (Not that this is at all dismissive; it's a wonderful book), populated by exaggerated psychology, an unfounded distaste for naturalism, and a subtle conservatism (present even among the most left-wing writers of the modern and post-modern tradition) which reveals itself in the post-modern suspicion of "ideology" and "ideologues".

The death of David Foster Wallace came too early. As with Keats and Shelley, when we read his work, what is far more dominant than the actual work which stands before us is the tragic sense, which pervades his corpus, of what could have been

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What the FRAK are you taking about?

Doing a story atm where the collective workforce is known as Smithy in any setting and is talked about like a single person. Anyone being addressed directly is Smith, but obvs names are still used whenever necessary.

> What do you think guys
> Reaction would be "Huh, s'cool" Or " Lame!"

>>8470324
>I think a lot about what he would have written if he had lived longer. I once heard it said he was moving from an obsession with Dostoevsky (whose influence can obviously be seen in his early work) and reading a great deal more Tolstoy.

Where did you read that?

>>8469883
Smeghead

I never read IJ. What's the word

>>8470785
it's a reaction image, not daveposting

>>8470736
it's a pasta

>>8470798
>tfw the post that became a pasta was a response to me
Feels good

>>8469943
Enders game is a children's novel written by a mormon anon, the fuck do you expect?

>>8469883
I do not grok this post.

What is the swear word?

>>8469943
>Ender's biggest enemy is the evil BUGGER menace
Definitely Card's homophobia showing through with that one

>>8470805
embiggen

>>8470808
That isn't a swear word.

>>8470805

he dysphemized he word ' map '

You're giving me the howling fantods, anon.