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xhonzi
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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3-Jun-2011, 1:13 PM

TheBoost said:

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.

 

From wp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game :

The book originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.[2]

Card stated that Ender's Game was written specifically to establish the character of Ender for his role of the Speaker in Speaker for the Dead, the outline for which he had written before novelizing Ender's Game.[8]