Extract: OSC: I am definitely writing a novel that takes place after the events of Children of the Mind, which brings together a few threads from the Shadow books and all the dangling threads from the Speaker trilogy (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind). That one will be called Shadows in Flight. I will also write a novel about Mazer Rackham that is a prequel to the whole series. It is also possible that Tor Books and I will initiate a series of novels (or at least short story anthologies) by other writers about what happened to the kids from Ender's Jeesh after the events of Shadow of the Giant. But no final decision has yet been made on that. But if we don't find writers who can create stories that in my judgment carry on the kind of story I tried to write in my Ender stories, we simply won't do it. Better not to do it at all than to do it badly. And...this next Christmas [2005], we will publish A Battle School Christmas (or some variation on that title), which takes place before Ender comes to Battle School. It will not be a "feel-good" Christmas book in the normal vein -- for one thing, angels and miracles have no place in serious science fiction. It will be as tough a story of kids training for war as any of the other stories in the series. And some of the kids who end up in Ender's Jeesh will be in the book.
quote:PGA: Out of all the Battle School graduates, which character is most like the young Orson Scott Card and why?
OSC: None of them. I was never that smart and never that willing to submit to authority. I would have been one of the kids turned down for Battle School, who then told anybody who listened that Battle School only tested for a certain kind of intelligence and actually the smartest and most creative kids were never sent up into space. But I wouldn't have believed it myself and would have considered myself a failure all my life because I hadn't been chosen
So basically, the answer is Peter. Interesting.
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YEAH!!! I remember, probably five years ago, writing an e-mail to the site administrator asking about a sequel to Children of the Mind. I was kindly, but firmly, told that there would never be a sequel. I'm so glad that OSC changed his mind. YEAH!!!
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My word! Its official! More Ender books. *Pounding Chest to Restart Heart*
I can't wait but did anyone else think that the Ender in First Meetings sounded different than the Ender we know. It has been a while since OSC last wrote ender. Does anyone think that the Ender in these new books might have a different feel and in doing so take something away from the story?
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I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!! After reading SotG, i was all sad cuz there wouldn't be anymore books on ender and bean, etc. Now there's gonna be another one YES!!!
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"Does anyone think that the Ender in these new books might have a different feel and in doing so take something away from the story?"
Where do you see any suggestion that Ender will be in any of these new books? Do you mean Neo-Peter?
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Wow, at least three more promised Enderverse books. I'm particularily looking forward to the Mazer Rackham novel, since it will give OSC a chance to make a fresh new story without any need for re-introducing already-developed characters. I hope it makes a pretty good stand-alone novel.
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I hope they have Ender as the main character in the sequal to Children of the Mind. I have never, and will probably never, read the Enderverse novels. My main Interest was always Ender. As soon as he left the picture as center stage, I no longer continued reading the series.
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"I hope they have Ender as the main character in the sequal to Children of the Mind."
Have you read Children of the Mind? Because it would be a very, very dull book indeed if the Ender at the end of that book were the main character in its sequel. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Tom you were right in your post earlier but OSC himself is now asking for a Ender related title and this book would have Ender so my fears are real. I am not terribly worried because of how good a writer he is but it is a point to ponder.
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Actually the book OSC is speaker of would take place well before CotM. Currect me if I'm wrong, I'm too lazy to look it back up, but he's talking about a story about Ender after leaving the first colony. During the time of "Speaker" while he is still young. So, don't fear. Ender will not have taken the turn yet into the character you grew to like less. Posts: 1294 | Registered: Oct 2003
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Yeah, the title of the after-CotM book is "Shadows in Flight" and Ender isn't in it (except insofar is Peter, operated by Ender's aiua, "is" ender).
The book with Ender in the title will be after Giant and before Speaker, and Ender will definitely be in it - ender the teenager or young adult, not ender the middle-aged guy looking for a family.
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I know at a signing you said that you didn't want to write a book after COTM since you felt that especially with the Desecoladors (can't remember how to spell that, sorry ) the moral dilema was so simple, and really, not even a dilema. Does this mean that it will mostly be about Peter (and his companion ) in a "quest" for power/recognition for Lustiana?
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By the way, even if you don't respond to this question, something inside of me is telling me you're going to object to the use of the word "quest", though I'm not yet sure why. So if that little voice is right, I apologize.
quote: Yeah, the title of the after-CotM book is "Shadows in Flight" and Ender isn't in it (except insofar is Peter, operated by Ender's aiua, "is" ender).
The book with Ender in the title will be after Giant and before Speaker, and Ender will definitely be in it - ender the teenager or young adult, not ender the middle-aged guy looking for a family.
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I think most of us would like to know more about the Descoladores (Heh, I'm not sure if that's right either). But I'm not sure what a whole novel based around them would be like. There would be the obvious question of Ramen or Varelse, of course, which could lead to some interesting plot-lines, but a lot of that kind of stuff was covered in the Speaker books.
But I'm just blowing hot air, since I won't be writing the novel. However, it's good to know that whatever Card does with it, it'll be good!
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