If you liked Labyrinth because of the more female-centric Dan Brown type of story, you absolutely should check out Katherine Neville's The Eight. It's an amazing complex book with an incredible heroine and it was written in the 70s/80s but has much in common with the themes/general adventure of and is often likened to/considered a superior precursor of The DaVinci Code. I've met Katherine a few times in person too and she's pretty fantastic. She was one of the few women working in international banking in the late 70s/early 80s when the book was published and she weaves that into the novel as well. :)
I wasn't deliberately looking for Dan Brown-esque fiction, but a friend loaned me Labyrinth when I was injured. So the timing worked out. (I've never actually read any Dan Brown. Hah!) But plotty stories with interesting female characters are always fun. I may check out Neville's book, thanks.
I should really check out Ender in Exile. I like reading about Luisitania best, but I'm definitely hooked on the characters.
I quite enjoyed it. And it does work well to fill in the gaps between Ender's Game and Xenocide. I always thought those two books were a bit too different from each other--the grown Andrew, while always scarred by his battle-driven childhood, is different enough from his younger self that I'm guessing some of the audience just gave up while attempting Xenocide. (For me the mystery of WHAT IS UP WITH THE PIGGIES, WHAT ARE THEY, HOW DO THEY REPRODUCE?!?! was a big motivating factor to keep reading, until I felt more at home with the new large cast of characters.)
Hee, these Orson Scott Card books have been on my to-be-read pile for at least three years (someone on my Flist recced them), and I've never found time to get started on them.
I think Ender's Game through Children of the Mind are some of the best sci-fi books out there. Well-imagined alien races that are truly distinct from humans, questions about what it means to be sentient... and all of this wrapped in a plot that's compelling enough to make readers like me (I don't normally have much interest in alien species, real or imagined) keep reading.
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Hee! Well, now I have.
I should really check out Ender in Exile. I like reading about Luisitania best, but I'm definitely hooked on the characters.
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I quite enjoyed it. And it does work well to fill in the gaps between Ender's Game and Xenocide. I always thought those two books were a bit too different from each other--the grown Andrew, while always scarred by his battle-driven childhood, is different enough from his younger self that I'm guessing some of the audience just gave up while attempting Xenocide. (For me the mystery of WHAT IS UP WITH THE PIGGIES, WHAT ARE THEY, HOW DO THEY REPRODUCE?!?! was a big motivating factor to keep reading, until I felt more at home with the new large cast of characters.)
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Too many books, too few hours in a day...
ETA: enjoy your vacation ;)
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But yes, way more books than time.
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