The drama/meaning-making parts of Enders game without the story , the action, or characters you care about. It’s all the parts of Cards writing that, as a facet of his Award winning works Ender’s Game and The Speaker for the Dead made them cool and different sci fi - but as the only think in the book makes this drab and terrible to wade through.

The main characters-figure-it-out with logic leaps are hilarious too. Instead of the much more logical conclusion that Valentine isn’t Demosthenes They decide she is and since there is no proof something powerful is hiding the proof - must be AI and Jane is suddenly worrried? need other proof and not some logic deduction from nothing really.