Book Review: Ender's Game

Ender is a 10 years old boy who wakes up one day in a doctor's office half naked and feeling anxious. He knows that something is missing. Because it has not met the expectations, he has removed the mental scientists monitor the militia had placed on his neck to always know what was going through your mind and senses. That same day at the college, the boys in her class noticed that your monitor has been removed planned attack in groups, what ender responds with a brutal attack on the leader of the gang, breaking ribs and almost desbaratandole an eye kicking. Inside Ender feels terrible about what he did, but he knows that the only way to prevent further fighting is making it clear that he is no coward. That afternoon, the military go to his house to pick him up to take him to a military school, and tell you that everything has been tested. Thus, Ender becomes a member of a program to train the best soldiers in preventing an alien invasion. 

Thus begins the saga of Ender, the science fiction equivalent to Harry Potter, but that does not mean it is only a copy, because this saga is more obscure and complex, intended for an audience a little more mature. The author of the saga is Orson Scott Card, and is currently made ​​up of 11 short stories, 10 novels. Personally I recommend reading the first book because it is the best of them, but anyone can get is worth it.

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

There is a book that along with the classic George Orwell's 1984 is the epitome of dystopian futures literature. In a world where all ethics and morals have given to the interests of the state, monogamy is prohibited and purposefully consume psychotropic called soma (which swallowed relieves any anxiety or mental agitation) is a civic duty, our protagonist Bernard Marx is born, an outsider in the world where he lived.

Marx, because of a problem with the incubator machine where he was born, have a mind too sharp to be adaptable to domestication that the state exercises over its people. Highlights the fact that apparently the intelligence has led Marx to develop an ethical system of beliefs which prevent you from living fully with their neighbor. Looking around, he realizes that all his fellows are being brutalized by sex, wild sports and vice, which thus do not develop a critical awareness and to fulfill their role of engagement in the great machinery is this society that Huxley raised. This clarity of mind contrasts sharply with the dull minds of Lenina Crowne, a girl whose promiscuity and poor judgment show that is one of the best and strongest links in the chain dystopian Huxley conceived.

In this society, all individuals are designed before his birth and natural reproduction is prohibited determinedly are germinated in a kind of giant incubator where they were given nutrients and chemicals needed to develop the skills that correspond to their caste. For example, a delta should be more robust and disciplined but also must have a temperament that allows you to obey the orders of a beta less race that takes care of administrative tasks and management of the state.

If you are in the college, you must be political active and this will be one of your favorites. This book could be considered the legitimate predecessor of the comic by Alan Moore "V for Vendetta" and the Matrix saga. It is said that Huxley wrote after recovering from the Great Depression that engulfed after being disillusioned with Soviet totalitarianism, whose excesses had come to condemn socialism to a slow, pathetic death throes. Highly recommended to have a good weekend at home and get to think about what happens when people become ignorant, whether out of conviction or convenience.

Any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence.

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Un mundo Feliz - Aldous Huxley

Hay un libro que junto con el clásico 1984 de George Orwell constituye el arquetipo de la literatura de futuros distópicos. En mundo donde toda ética y moral han cedido a los intereses del estado, la monogamia esta determinadamente prohibida y consumir el psicotrópico llamado soma (el cual al ingerirlo alivia cualquier tipo de ansiedad o agitación mental) es un deber civil, nace nuestro protagonista Bernard Marx, un outsider dentro del mundo donde le toco vivir.

Marx, debido a un problema con la maquina incubadora donde fue artificialmente concebido, nace con una inteligencia demasiado aguzada como para poder adaptarse a la domesticación que el estado ejerce sobre sus individuos. Resalta el hecho de que al parecer la inteligencia de Marx lo ha llevado a desarrollar un sistema ético de creencias el cual le impide convivir plenamente con su prójimo. Observando a su alrededor, se da cuenta de que todos sus congéneres están siendo embrutecidos a través del sexo, los deportes salvajes y el vicio para que de esta manera no desarrollen una conciencia critica y puedan cumplir con su papel de engrane en la gran maquinaria que es esta sociedad que Huxley plantea. Esta claridad mental contrasta fuertemente con la obtusa mentalidad de Lenina Crowne, una chica cuya promiscuidad y poco criterio ponen de manifiesto que es uno de los mejores y más fuertes eslabones en la cadena distopica de Huxley.

En esta sociedad todos los individuos son diseñados antes de su nacimiento y la reproducción natural esta determinantemente prohibida, son germinados en una especie de incubadora gigante donde se les administra los nutrientes y químicos necesarios para que desarrollen las aptitudes que corresponden a su casta. Por ejemplo, un delta mas deberá ser robusto y disciplinado pero a la vez deberá tener un temperamento que le permita acatar las ordenes de un beta menos, raza que se encarga de las labores administrativas y la gestion del estado.

Este libro podría considerarse como el antecesor legitimo del comic de Alan Moore “V de Vendetta” y de la saga Matrix. Se dice que Aldous Huxley la escribió tras haberse recuperado de la gran depresión en que se sumió tras haberse desilusionado del comunismo soviético, cuyos excesos y totalitarismos habían terminado por condenarlo a una lenta agonía. Sumamente recomendado para pasar un buen fin de semana en casa y ponerse a meditar acerca de lo que pasa cuando un pueblo se vuelve ignorante, ya sea por convicción propia y comodidad o por imposición.

Cualquier parecido con la realidad es pura y mera coincidencia.