This novella is more like the Card I know and love. His last few books have left something to be desired, but this makes you realize he can still write. It is a short story about Zeck, a boy in Ender’s toon, that is nonviolent and does not want to go to Battle School. A confrontation happens when he actually gets there that causes religious feelings to escalate. This is a great sideline story to the overarching tale of Ender. I loved reading about the characters we know and love in a new and different setting. Obviously a novel cannot encompass ever detail that happens during a time frame (imagine how long they’d be!) but there are certain books where reading stories such as this help enrich the stories previously told. I loved this short read and hope there will be more like it in the future. But I still have to ask, “Whatever happened to his last Women of Genesis book?”