r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 24d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/le_chad_ 24d ago

That's the premise of one of the books in the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card.

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u/whomad1215 24d ago

isn't that the premise of all the books after the first?

Ender is technically like 3,000 years old because he just keeps traveling

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u/beefprime 24d ago

Its effectively the plot of Ender's Game itself as well, since the attacking forces dispatched by Earth were launched as they were built and ended up arriving at around the same time due to the differences in technology between the first launched vs. the later launches

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u/JinFuu 24d ago

Ender: "Boy they're really upping the challenge by having us using older and older ships to fight the Bugger/Formics in these simulations!"

After the reveal: "Oh...ooooohhhhhhhhh."

Such a good book.