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A member from pweb, don't think he's regularily active.

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If you think about it, situations very similar to those in Ender's Game are happening at the present. With all those video games featuring killing and other considered objectionable objectives, one might start to question the effect of such games on the psychology of people, specifically in child st...

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I worked on the Noodle's wiki for a while until I got bored (I was really the only one contributing for a year or so), and frankly, I think my writing kinda sucked. I'd be nice to see some well written (hopefully) and comprehensive Enderverse info.

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Speaking of the rules of war, there are the Geneva Conventions, however it doesn't seem like anyone is really following it nowadays.

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Silly American. Ever hear of free health care?

Having heard a whole bunch of stuff on the news about people not being able to pay medical bill and not having insurance, it's hard to think otherwise.

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If I remember right, he was beaten up and then thrown into the streets.

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Something on the subject of medicine in Ender's Shadow, this is something I thought of a while ago. In Ender's Shadow, Ulysses is run over by a truck and has to spend sometime in a hospital. My question is, who pays for his medical bills?

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What? Can anyone provide a passage of this?

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I know that in speaker for the dead, there was an "SC" system in place based on the adoption of the starways code, something I forgot what it was. Throughout the book this was the standard timekeeping system. But then this to the best of my knowledge, this was abandoned in Xenocide and all subsequen...

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I am also confused about how the IF knew what planet was the Buggers' home world. Even if the pattern the Formics colonized planets was a straight line, and even if the IF traced the line of colonized planets further outward, how could they have known, "Ah, this is far enough, there are definately ...

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It usually seems as if sometimes science and other logical explanations for stuff is sacrificed for what the author believes to be an interesting plot twist. The Ender series is no exception. Since we don't exactly know the exact nature of Bean's illness (that is no one's written hundreds of pages o...

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That basically sums it up.

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The Polemarch and Hegemon have not always been of the nationalities they were during the Second Invasion, but it is said that the Strategos had always been a Jew, but it didn't specify if they were Israeli. Spoiler Select to View ( that is until Bean as appointed ). About the Polemarch, I don't thin...

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every time I see the name Quim though, I still shake my head a bit. I wonder if OSC is gonna change that the way he changed the term bugger to formic. :D I can't believe I've just now realized what "google define Quim" was all about. :roll: I suppose that's why he killed off the character Quim.

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********spoilers******** (highlight below to read) OK wait, Shakespeare is the first Bugger world to be colonized, the world ender is the governor of. Ganges is where Ender confronts Randall/Arkanian and gets the s*** beat out of him. this is in the letter from Ender to Graff, thus Graff died in Ir...

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You guys keep talking about amputations and possibly keeping Bean alive long enough for him to come into play in Shadows of Flight. But OSC wont enter him into the book as an amputated vegetable who cant move and is too big to fit into a spaceship. What use is there to that other than excite fans w...

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There have been many instances where I have had a book sit around before I read it and it turned out to be good. Unfortunately if I read a book and wasn't immediately hooked, I tend to put it aside, and sometimes not pick it up again. I probably missed many a good book this way. Last year, I had to ...

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When I write Shadows in Flight, in which YP plays a major role, one thing is certain: He will NOT "be" Ender. But he will be a person who makes his life decisions from the same deep moral/causal core. Different experiences will shape him differently, of course. what I will NOT do is attempt to show...

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Ender in Exile EiE

Uh, dude? Near death? I believe that Graff already died by the end. I'm pretty sure the last thing he was shown doing was burning up Ender's letter and then I think a little later they said he died, but I'm not 100% sure.

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If you read the afterword, Card explains that initially the conflict on Ganges was going to be the central story of the book, but somewhere along the way he decided to focus on Shakespeare colony instead. I've read the afterword twice but I don't remember anything like that. Guess I'll just have to...

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Here's another likely contradiction: In Ender's Game, Ender thinks that his fart collection is in his socks, but Alai reminds him "We don't wear socks anymore.". It was set in stone that at Battle School, the kids don't wear socks. Then in A War of Gifts, people would give stockings to one another a...

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With all the ways OSC has screwed up the stories, I kind of wish he or someone else would just rewrite the entire EnderVerse but somewhat having the same story. What does everyone else think?

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While researching for Orson Scott Card wiki, I stumbled upon this paragraph in Ender's Game: Mazer explained. He wasn't going to control ships anymore. "You've reached the next phase of your training. You have experience in every level of strategy, but now it's time for you to concentrate on command...

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Technically speaking, any literate person could write those books. Even I could: One day, there was a bunch of aliens and then some mean person called Ender blew them out of the universe.

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Since the introduction of the "Stasis" in Ender in Exile, couldn't Bean and co. just go into stasis for the duration of the flight? People in Stasis wouldn't age (at least not that much) according to Ender in Exile. And since Bean's departure to space happens chronologically after Ender's flight to ...

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First off, I think is would be incredibility unrealistic that someone from the 22nd century could create a super virus that destroys entire planetary ecosystems, I can't see how anything the humans would make could be so complex as to actually be almost intelligent. the Colony's name is "Path" and "...

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Well JK Rowling wrote "Quidditch through the Ages", which was a book mentioned in Harry Potter just like "The Hive Queen" was in Ender. But The writings of the Speaker for the Dead would be on a whole other level compared to QttA. QttA was merely mean as a little thing to expand the universe, wherea...

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More quotes: (Some are in my signature) "And no one is a better observer of the folkways of the adolescent male than the adolescent female." - Shadow of the Hegemon, Sister Carlotta "... Some times lies were more dependable than the truth" - Ender's Game "He [Locke] has influence but he doesn't have...

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There were only twenty starships in the human fleet, each with four fighters. And they were the oldest design, sluggish compared to some of the fighters they'd had in earlier battles. It made senseâ€”the Bugger home world was probably the farthest away, so the fleet that got there now had left befo...

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I'm pretty sure that the Bugger's were the ones who made the first strike. In fact, the humans didn't even know about their existence until they attacked. Also, I don't think that even if the humans knew about the Buggers and the Buggers hadn't attacked, they probably wouldn't attack the Buggers unl...

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I think that there wouldn't be much in the Ender books to base a religion off of. According to Wikipedia, a religion is "A of way of life based on tenets (or a belief system) about the ultimate power". Although I don't really know for certain what the "ultimate power" is, there seems to be nothing o...

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I got a headache reading the first couple of chapters at the bookstore. I hate how he makes the characters mention things like, "That will never happen" or something where they talk about an event that will occur in the future and we know that it is going to happen but they don't. He has done that ...

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(Note that this is a combination of one of my previous post and a new post) Right now, I'm at about chapter 20 or so (I don't really want to bother to check) (I'm at the part where Val and Ender get to Ganges) and although I haven't finished it 100%, there are a few thing I'd like to say. First off,...

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I meant to say "Strategist" instead of "Commander", actually, and I probably misunderstood the exact meaning of "Commander". Ender was a commander who's subordinates and people he knew loved him much and they continued to for long after he went away; he was a natral leader and commander. So I think ...

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I personally would say Bean was better, though there was one trait that Bean was missing, and that was leadership, the ability to know your soldiers and subordinates. Bean was shown in Ender's Shadow to be a bit NaÃ¯ve and looking into his own stuff rather than trying to befriend his launch group. I...

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