Your avatar fits you well.I was all giddy in the bookstore. 'Cause the cover is shiny.
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I guess this means OSC is Ender Wiggin's sister. LOL. I suppose the jacket text is suggesting that The Speaker for the Dead is a colony. Anyway, I haven't even seen Ender in Exile in person yet. My Public Library system actually had the book at least from the 9th of November, but there's a long waiting list for requests. Those of you who finish the book, how would you say you liked it compared to the rest of the series. (or just first impressions)OK, since no one else has picked this up, I am going to be a continuity nazi. I picked up the book today and, as is my habit, read the book jacket before diving nose first into the book. I happened across a passage in the synopsis that boggled my mind. To put it into context, I will include the sentence in question as well as the previous one. "With him went his sister, Valentine, and the core of the artificial intelligence that would become Jane. He wrote The Hive Queen and The Hegemon and his sister wrote The Speaker for the Dead.
OK, am I missing something from the 12 times I have read EG or is someone an idiot here? It was my impression that Ender wrote The Hive Queen and The Hegemon and OSC wrote Speaker for the Dead. Speaker for the Dead was the name Ender used to sign The Hive Queen. Valentine had no part in writing that book, and it is well documented in the Speaker series that she wrote histories of the Hundred Worlds. I know this is a petty error but it does not fly well with me, such a devotee to the series, EG in particular.
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I think it's the former. He's also mentioned that the opening chapter or prologue of "Shadows in Flight" might first appear as an IGMS story before the novel itself is published.I have yet to read the book and I'm likely going to get the book from Barnes and Noble's today. Also, it says on Ender in Exile's Wikipedia page that some of the Intergalactic Medicine Show stories were put in word-for-word into the book. This must mean that all along, OSC was uploading excerpts of Ender in Exile on IGMS. (in another view, this could mean that Card later decided to just put the stories together to form a novel)
Yeah, that was at ISL. I remember hearing that at least some of these small changes were deliberate; OSC didn't like how they were handled the first time, or something. Can't remember where I heard that, though I get the feeling it was somewhere around here....I've noticed some minor continuity errors when comparing EIE to the actual EG ending, such as when Ender meets up with Valentine on eros. In EG doesn't she surprises him while he is working outside of a ship.
Ha. I read the "Magician's Nephew" first. But with the "Dark is Rising" books I read the "Dark is Rising". I felt that there was something missing though as I was reading "Dark is Rising".I'd think reading them in chronological order would be as big a mistake as Reading the Magician's nephew first or Over Sea under Stone first in their respective series. Start with the first book, not the prequel.
I personally suggest that the book theoretically in pretty much any order (though I'd say it'd best to read in either chronological or publication order) but it would be good for to read each sage in order and War of Gifts and some other other stories in any order (they don't really seem contribute much to the Enderverse continuum). The order in which I read the EnderVerse books was EG, ES, SftD, SotG, AWoG, CotM, Xeno, SotH, SP, EiE (the last 3 books I haven't finished yet). As you can see, I read the books in a very strange order, I wouldn't suggest anyone do the same. This summer, I had already read EG for school and I really liked it so I read ES, and StfD. Then when I reserved the rest of the book, it seemed as if the Ender Series was amazingly popular, so some of the books took a long time to come out. For the most part I got the book in the order I read them in. (I was probably too exited to wait, which explains why I read Children of the Mind before Xenocide, something Orson Scott Card admonishes against.)reading order post EiE:
Ender's game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Shadow Series
Ender in Exile.
Ender in Exile will spoil the Shadow series for you, although I don't consider that any great loss.
I'd think reading them in chronological order would be as big a mistake as Reading the Magician's nephew first or Over Sea under Stone first in their respective series. Start with the first book, not the prequel.
I read the summary on wikipedia because I know its going to be along time before my library gets the book. Spoiler below VVVVSomething else that REALLY bugs me about this book ... I'm listening to the Audible presentation now ...
How in the heck did Ender become so eloquent? Where did he pick up all the military jargon, and learn the military codes and regulations? When did he have time to do all of that stuff.
The letters that Ender writes to Valentine sound like a 45 year old man has written them, not a 13-15 year old kid fresh out of battle school. I know Ender was always a serious kid, but I really wondered where he learned to write or converse like that. It certainly wasn't from the six years he spent in Battle school spouting kuso and toguro!! He was only out of Battle School for a total of a year by the time the voyage started.
Kuso.
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