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I was wondering, how good an idea it would be if these books actually existed? As in someone, and by that I mean OSC (or someone he trusts, or experts in the fields), actually writing those books under the name of Speaker for the Dead.
Would you want to read The Hive Queen? The Hegemon? The Life of Human? And maybe even that fourth book that Ender didn't get to write, and maybe Peter would write, someday. The one about Jane.
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It would be interesting to read them. But OSC has already said that he doesn't want to write them. In the story the books changed the world(s) completely. OSC doesn't think the world is ready for a book like that. Or he doesnt' have the ability to write it. Either way I agree with him.
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I probably wouldn't read them even if he DID write them, and the smart money is on me currently reading at least one of the Ender Quartet at any given moment.
My reasons:
1. I don't think anyone could pull it off, not even OSC. The snippets we get of Life of Human are good, but I think keeping the power that any of Ender's works would have to have every single moment in a book is impossible. Plus, everyone who wants to read Hive Queen and The Hegemon and Life of Human probably already has their idea of how they want it to be, and with something as powerful and personal as what are fictional religious scriptures, vast amounts of people would be disillusioned no matter how well written they were.
2. A ridiculously high number of people name "Jedi" as their religion. There are probably more Star Wars fans than devoted followers of Ender, but as your average Joe cannot exactly pull off telekenesis, and can only do the "these are not the droids you're looking for" trick in his fantasies, Jedi doesn't have the same completeness when followed as a genuine religion. But havne't people already actually had Speakers at their funerals? This is fine, but I see it as a sad truth that as soon as religions become "organized" most of what is good about them goes away pretty quickly. Let Life of Human &etc be written, and in 100 years or so if some Speakers arent condemning all funerals that don't ever mention the dark side of the deceased even if all anyone wants to do is forget it or some such thing, then sign me up because that'll be a first.
Fiction is wonderful because we CAN imagine that what we so desperately want to have exist in realily is possible. But I don't want the amazing compassion and understanding of Ender ruined by a cold hard dose of reality.
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