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Pete McCutchen  
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 More options Dec 10 1999, 3:00 am
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From: Pete McCutchen <p.mccutc...@worldnet.att.net>
Date: 1999/12/10
Subject: Re: A Great New Sci-Fi Novel! (CRIT)
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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:05:25 +0100, "Etaoin Shrdlu"

<cooper17.spaml...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> I'm not certain of the POV, but my 15-year-old daughter would probably
>> mention Orson Scott Card and his two books (one of them just out):
>> _Ender's Game_ and _Ender's Shadow_

>> They cover a lot of the same time period (at least in the beginning - I
>> haven't yet read the second book).

>Umm, I distinctly remember reading (more than once) a sequel to Ender's Game
>the title of which escapes me, but it was at least ten years ago that I last
>read it, and it most emphatically wasn't called "Ender's Shadow". That was
>it--"Speaker for the Dead". So what's happened to that one, then?

_Speaker for the Dead_ still exists, as does its sequel, _Xenocide_,
which, IMO, sucked rocks.  Card followed _Xenocide_ with _Children of
the Mind_, which I have not read.

But now he's gone back to when Ender was a boy, and has written a
"companion volume" to _Ender's Game_, called _Ender's Shadow_.  Bean
is the POV character in _Ender's Shadow_, which I also have not read,
having concluded that Card is out of things to say.

Too bad, really.  I rather liked the author of _Hart's Hope_ and
_Ender's Game_.  Perhaps he'll pull a LeGuin and recover from the
effects of the Brain Eater.

--

Pete McCutchen


 
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