xhonzi said:
TheBoost said:
Someone at the library told me "Speaker for the Dead" was "brilliant". I almost hit her.
I read that Card only wrote Ender's Game as a means of setting up the book he really wanted to write- Speaker for the Dead.
If that's the case then perhaps he's a little like George Lucas. IIRC "Ender's Game" was originally a novella that he expanded. Maybe he inadvertently crafted something great.