> Orson Scott Card: If I knew, I would do it again. I don’t, but I have some ideas.
What works with Ender’s Game is Ender’s community-building. There’s a disparate group of kids who could be rivals, and he’s able to bind them together through his personal service to them, through his loyalty, his trustworthiness. They know he’ll never waste them, that he’s not exploiting them for his own gain.
I certainly was not conscious of it as I was writing him—I’m not much of a follower, and I’m not a good team player—and yet I created the kind of guy that I would follow.