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[nederlandergirl]

I just joined the community and I want to introduce myself.
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I'm really not into sci-fi and I don't really like sci-fi movies or books (except for Monica Hughes' books, which are amazing) so it might come as a surprise that I like Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. I'm pretty much a huge Broadway- I like shows from Rent to Avenue Q to A Little Night

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[tychoish]

So this means, you're still pretty young? I mean ender's shadow came out 4 or five years ago, right?

You know that there are new Ender stories quarterly in OSC's Intergalatic Medicine Show (OSC's IGMS)...

I agree with you that the ender stuff including the speaker for the dead stories, which I really liked.

I don't think there'll be any other parallels, but you never know. Petra's story was too close to Ender's for most of the story, I think, and I think there's less that happens "afterwords" in her story, but that just conjecture.

There's a lot of really great SF out there, I think, and a lot of the kinds of stuff that is being written today isn't very much like what most of us think of as SF, as it was, even 20 years ago.

[nederlandergirl]

Yeah but it would be interesting to see the sexism she encounters seeing as there were like no girls there (I haven't read the books in a while.)

[tychoish]

as interesting as I think that would be, and as much as I love OSC, I don't know if I would trust him to do that...

[myrddinfyre]

hahahahaha

[myrddinfyre]

welcome! osc's stuff is always good for people who don't even like the genre of book, because he's all about the characters and characterization. glad you like the ender books!

[nederlandergirl]

Yeah, they were amazing, just the whole environment was so well written.

[gabo0]

I heart you. I don't like much sci-fi either, so it was a huge surprise when I ended up glued to this series. Although we have to admit it's not that sci-fi after all, especially the Shadow series. Plus, I like Harry Potter too

I loved reading scenes I had read before, opening both books (which I hadn't returned yet) and looking at the same dialogue from different points of view. That's why I loved Ender's Shadow so much too. Apart from Bean being a totally different character from Ender, I felt this book was so much more worked.. like, in writing quality. I simply loved it.

Have you read any other from any series (Ender's or Bean's)? They're amazing too, and even though my favorites are Bean's, I fell in love with the story reading Ender's side of the story. It's just a totally different theme, one about alien life 3000 years from now and the other a global war on Earth after the Formics war. It's jsut a matter of what you prefer, ethical debate or military context *grins*

I just heart them.. can't help it but get carried away

[thedorkygirl]

Do you know that there are about eight books, plus several short stories and more novels planned?

Ender's Game has two series --

(speaker series)
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind

(bean quartet)
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Giant

The Bean Quartet has a LOT with Petra.