Poll: Series about minor characters?
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- Launchie
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Poll: Series about minor characters?
Would you like a series about the minor characters? Like Carn Carby, Crazy Tom, etc...
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- Launchie
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I said maybe. It could possibly be cool, yet I think it would be hard for it to be well written, and for us to not find too many inconsistencies. At the same time it would be interesting to see how the minor characters we grew to know and love, thought about the stuff going around them and their childhood.
I said no because, although I would love to know about the other characters' lives, I'd much rather make my own assumptions about them. I want to know the story, but sometimes too much information will ruin the mystery. It's fun to be able to ask "What if.." and make up your own story line to go with it.
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We already have the Shadow series, which shed light on a number of minor characters such as Bean, Petra, and Alai. No need to make too much of a good thing. Like human. said, it's better to leave somthing to the imagination rather than giving everyone a detailed backstory and a series of books dedicated to them.
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No; it would be too much. Besides, nobody's story can compare with Ender's in Battle School. and Bean covered Earthlife afterwards. As for backgrounds, OSC's short stories work spectacularly.
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I'd like to see series books on how say each of them did after battle school, and perhaps how they ended up on colony worlds, or whatever, how they set them up, that kind of thing.
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i think it would be great if OSC created another series, because this quote (above) says how the reader wouldn't be able to speculate and make up your own storyline etc, but i think if OSC wrote another series, because of the way he writes, there would still be a mystery at the end and lead people to thinking "What if...", because he is an amazing writer and his writing styleI'd much rather make my own assumptions about them. I want to know the story, but sometimes too much information will ruin the mystery. It's fun to be able to ask "What if.." and make up your own story line to go with it.
and, he would make a huge amount of money, so nothing really lost for him is there?
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Not a series- maybe a book, with many short stories, like said before.
However, Alai must get at least a book, and possibly a series- maybe combined with the minor characters', or with the post-Shadow series- he is perhaps the 4th most important character in the books, other then Ender and Bean (and Petra, which got her big role in the Shadow series), and we know so little about him.
However, Alai must get at least a book, and possibly a series- maybe combined with the minor characters', or with the post-Shadow series- he is perhaps the 4th most important character in the books, other then Ender and Bean (and Petra, which got her big role in the Shadow series), and we know so little about him.
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Minor Characters-Far and away YES
In the "Shadow" series, there are short snips of what life is like for Han, Virlomi, Alai, among others, that I really enjoy. I want to know WHY Han had the worst bed in his campaign against the Russians. I want to know HOW Alai got into a position of confidence in Damascus before he became Caliph. I want to know MORE about Virlomi's guerilla actions that kept the Chinese pinned down for weeks. These are great stories, and WHAT happens after they join COLMIN to go to new planets would sweeten the deal.
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Minor Characters ARE Interesting
As I read the series again, they catch my eye. The way Card writes them, I am guessing, and reguessing, and am yearning for more on the characters. I not only read for enjoyment, but to sharpen my mind against the genius children of the series. More books would be wonderful.
Anyone want to be my Demosthenes?
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I just want an "enemy" to create an ongoing political debate that will give both of us respect and a following for peace.
"And what in the name of Merlin's most baggy Y Fronts was that about?"
I just want an "enemy" to create an ongoing political debate that will give both of us respect and a following for peace.
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