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Admin Posts: 288 Location: Irving, TX | Ender's Sequal (for real, this time) Rico Simpkins Yeah, Orson Scott Card has written plenty of follow-up books to his 1985 classic, Ender's Game. None of them, however, satisfied the reader's question about what happened next. The events of Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide happen thousands of years later, Ender's Shadow was a retelling of the original novel, and Shadow of the Hegemon jumps back to the 22nd, century, but nowhere near the events of the Formics war. Then there were all those prequal short stories, and then....well, you get the point. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4000 Location: Dallas, Texas | Ender in Exile? I'm not too sure about this one. It seems as if Card has been milking the Ender franchise for a long time with varying degrees of success. I've read the original 3 novels and my appreciation of them went down with each successive book. So much so that I've not been tempted by the other books at all. I guess I'll wait and see on this one. That it's a direct sequel to the events in Ender's Game is encouraging! I will keep an open mind at least until the reviews start coming in. - Dave | ||
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Uber User Posts: 202 Location: Sacramento, California | I worry about this, because when Asimov picked up the Foundation series thirty years later, it was in a totally different voice. Card is a different person now, and so I'm thinking he should have just left well enough alone. We'll see once it comes out though. For the record, I've read Ender's Game, and Speaker For The Dead. I think that's it. | ||
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New User Posts: 1 Location: Dallas, TX | Administrator - 2008-11-13 8:31 AM Ender in Exile? I'm not too sure about this one. It seems as if Card has been milking the Ender franchise for a long time with varying degrees of success. I've read the original 3 novels and my appreciation of them went down with each successive book. So much so that I've not been tempted by the other books at all. I guess I'll wait and see on this one. That it's a direct sequel to the events in Ender's Game is encouraging! I will keep an open mind at least until the reviews start coming in. - Dave I agree to some extent. I think the first novel was by far the best, and I enjoyed it the most of the original trilogy. The "reboot" of the series is more of a guilty pleasure read for me. Its seems as if Card, after years of requests, decided to cash in and give the fans exactly what they wanted. I find myself in the "fan of the original Ender book" category, and have read all of the sequels. I pick up the books because I want them to be better than they actually are. In the end I am mildly entertained but neither writer nor reader are recapturing the original glory days of that first awesome Ender book. | ||
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