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Old 05-09-2012, 12:27 PM   #13
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by DrNefario View Post
I read Ender's Game a long time ago, and thought it stood well enough alone and didn't need any expansion, so didn't read any of the others. Now I'm reading all the Hugo winners I'm going to have to read Speaker for the Dead.

The same goes for Forever War. Can't people leave things alone?
In fairness, Card wanted to write Speaker for the Dead first, but he needed a character with the right background. If I remember correctly, his wife suggested that Ender from that short story he had wrote might be the perfect character. Of course, Card then needed to flesh out Ender's Game into a full novel.

So unlike Forever War, where the idea for the sequel came years later, Ender's Game (the novel) and Speaker for the Dead were always meant to be together .

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