It's just that thick with goodness. I'm trying to get over my long-standing aversion to serialized fiction, just for this volume. This is one of those. I managed to get distracted away from this one, but I'm sure, not for long. I resolved a few years ago to read everything this man has written.
Shame is just the latest.
I'm making room for it, slowly. None of the other three are quite like the original Ender's Game - but the entire quartet is brilliant, with the later books being more mature, more developed, with plenty of questions of ethics and survival to keep any mind churning through the reading. So here they are, for now. To boot, these days I lack the stomach for Tepper's more hardcore feminist preaching. For years and years, this was it, the best fiction ever.