{"id":290,"date":"2008-12-19T00:25:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T04:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/19\/review-of-a-war-of-gifts-by-orson-scott-card\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T23:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T03:00:29","slug":"review-of-a-war-of-gifts-by-orson-scott-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Review of A War of Gifts, by Orson Scott Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image338\" height=\"207\" alt=\"war_of_gifts.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/war_of_gifts.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A War of Gifts,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>An Ender Story,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Orson Scott Card<\/p>\n<p>Tor, Tom Doherty Associates, New York, 2007.\u00a0 126 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Christmas story that takes you into Ender&#8217;s world.\u00a0 We follow the story of Zeck, who&#8217;s been brought up to believe that Santa is a form of Satan.\u00a0 When Zeck is sent to Battle School, he refuses to participate or ever fire a weapon, because he also believes that War is not a valid field of study.<\/p>\n<p>Then a Dutch boy puts out his shoe for Sinterklaas, and gets a Sinterklaas poem.\u00a0 This starts a trend of the students, where religion is forbidden, finding subversive ways to celebrate Christmas, claiming it&#8217;s a national observance, not a religious one.<\/p>\n<p>As the &#8220;war of gifts&#8221; escalates, Zeck&#8217;s life is touched in a way that he doesn&#8217;t expect.<\/p>\n<p>A nice Christmas story, quite different from typical ones.\u00a0 Ender fans will especially enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0765312824\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/war_of_gifts.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/war_of_gifts.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A War of Gifts, An Ender Story, by Orson Scott Card Tor, Tom Doherty Associates, New York, 2007.\u00a0 126 pages. Here&#8217;s a Christmas story that takes you into Ender&#8217;s world.\u00a0 We follow the story of Zeck, who&#8217;s been brought up to believe that Santa is a form of Satan.\u00a0 When Zeck is sent to Battle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-fiction-review","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}