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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
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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Bill |
From my understanding, and I've forgotten the source, but I read somewhere that Card was done with Ender's Game, and then he had the plot for Speaker for the Dead, but had problems with the protagonist.
It wasn't until after the success of Ender's Game that he thought of using Ender as the hero--hence the very different themes of Ender's Game vs. the sequels, or the fact that several scenes in Ender's Game had to be rewritten to match the chronology of the series--so I wouldn't say that they were always meant to be together.