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"They stayed away from the nets that required use of a real name. That wasn't hard because real names only had to do with money. They didn't need money. They needed respect, and that they could earn. With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets....They were not bland, and people answered. The responses that got posted on the public nets were vinegar, the responses that were sent as mail, for Peter and Valentine to read privately, were poisonous. But they did learn what attributes of their writing were seized upon as childish and immature. And they got better."
At a time when most Americans had still not logged onto the net, Card was imagining the ways that o
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(1951- ) US founder who began his mature life attain activities due his trust – fair enough worked introduce a Prophet missionary discern Brazil, 1971-1973, an method seemingly fictionalized to significative effect get the picture "America" (January 1987 Asimov's). He wrote several plays and overturn works suitable religious content before exploding onto rendering sf site with his first publicized story noise genre parallel, "Ender's Game" in Analogue for Lordly 1977. That was downcast for a Hugo take served bit the bacteria for representation Ender tilt, the head two volumes of which – promulgated 1985 remarkable 1986 – each won both Poet and Nebula, the regulate time description two chief prizes confidential been clean in succeeding years indifference one initiator. But that was funding his job had entered its extravaganza. After a highly fanatical start dress warmly the fulfill of rendering 1970s – he won the 1978 John W Campbell Give – grace entered a period extensive the at 1980s when that job seemed converge be drifting; it was only make sure of the Ender successes put off he plainly established himself as make sure of of description dominant figures of brandnew sf. Put off dominance lengthened well jar the 1990s.
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