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- Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:36 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Authorized Ender Companion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 17253
- Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:42 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Children and War
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5509
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...
- Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:24 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Authorized Ender Companion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 17253
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:27 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Games
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3586
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:14 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bean Couldn't Have Survived
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5556
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:06 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bean Couldn't Have Survived
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5556
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:25 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bean Couldn't Have Survived
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5556
- Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:49 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Name Change?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3324
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:33 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Random EnderVerse
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2326
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...
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:28 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bugger Home Distance to Earth?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9346
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 ...
- Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:33 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Just finished Shadow of the Giant again
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7998
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...
- Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:29 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: History of 1st bugger war
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2374
- Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:58 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: The Hegemon, the Polemarch, the Strategos
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3277
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...
- Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:58 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender in Exile: in stores/libraries now - Spoilers!
- Replies: 209
- Views: 56792
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:54 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: EIE - Graff - Spoilers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4287
********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...
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:56 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bean
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14657
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...
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:04 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: How were u introduced to EG?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 32924
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 ...
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:54 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Question: Is Shadows in Flight still intended to come out?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2535
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...
- Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:24 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: EIE - Graff - Spoilers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4287
- Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:02 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: EiE - Arkanian Delphiki *SPOILERS*
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7261
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...
- Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:25 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: EG - Shadow series contradiction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2055
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...
- Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:44 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender in Exile: in stores/libraries now - Spoilers!
- Replies: 209
- Views: 56792
- Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:19 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender's Squadron Leaders
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1790
Ender's Squadron Leaders
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...
- Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:30 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Wanted: New book from OSC
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5529
- Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:26 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bean
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14657
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 ...
- Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:49 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Enderverse books and concepts I'd like explored..
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3623
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 "...
- Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:40 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Wanted: New book from OSC
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5529
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...
- Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:25 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Favorite Enderverse quotes
- Replies: 95
- Views: 51752
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...
- Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:16 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bugger Home Distance to Earth?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9346
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 sense—the Bugger home world was probably the farthest away, so the fleet that got there now had left befo...
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:54 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Similar ideaologies between U.S. governemnt and leaders in
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1567
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...
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:41 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Should Ender's books start a religion?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7268
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...
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:26 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender in Exile: in stores/libraries now - Spoilers!
- Replies: 209
- Views: 56792
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 ...
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:41 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender in Exile: in stores/libraries now - Spoilers!
- Replies: 209
- Views: 56792
(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,...
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:32 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Better commander in real military, Ender, Bean?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 17546
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 ...
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:18 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Better commander in real military, Ender, Bean?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 17546
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 Naïve and looking into his own stuff rather than trying to befriend his launch group. I...