A story about the military training of a young boy (from the age of 6), I wasn't sure I'd like Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. It begins in the vein of Robert Heinlein's Puppet Masters--a story of military action and the sacrifices that are necessary in order to triumph--and seems to justify the attitude that individual humans are meaningless in ( Read more... )

Mark Twain wrote this parody of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in 1901 to protest the government's protection of prostitution in Manila during the war in the Philippines:

Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword ( Read more... )