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A friend of mine yesterday just finished reading "Xenocide", the (third?) book in the Ender's Game series. He was angry because it didn't seem to be very much about Ender and he was complaining about how every book after Ender's Game was horrible because it's so different from Ender's Game and bla bla bla bla bla. I countered this statement with something I believe everyone should accept. I think everyone would think the books after Ender's Game were great if they didn't have Ender's Game to compare them to. Take Ender's Game out of the picture and you have some pretty great science fiction books with spaceships, aliens, and mystery. Did it ever occur to any of you that would side with my friend in this argument that maybe the other books aren't different from Ender's Game, Ender's Game is different from the other books? Why do we call it the Ender's Game series at all? Shouldn't it be the Speaker For the Dead series, or something of the sort? Ender's Game is a pretty good prequel to a series of some of my favorite science fiction books. prequel. preeeeequel. PREEEEEEEEEEEEEAJKSFBDUIGRWOINELASDVJBEUGISDNXSKGWELSKNDFJSGRKEALNDX DGFA

Why not read the actual prequels to Enders game? You know, Earth Unaware, Earth Afire(?)

Don't forget the shadows series, or Ender in exile

ACH0225 wrote:Why not read the actual prequels to Enders game? You know, Earth Unaware, Earth Afire(?)

I'll look into this. I didn't even know of those book's existence until you mentioned it...

Oh, and I got this off wikipedia so I don't know how reliable this is but.... It sounds right to me:

"Card first wrote Ender's Game as a novelette, but went back and expanded it into a novel so he could use Ender as a main character in another novel, Speaker for the Dead."

He didn't even plan on Ender's Game's existence in the series until he decided Ender needed a back story. Aaaaaand.... BAM! A prequel was born.