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Mr Card, with your 8 "core" books, First Meetings, these four, and all the others you're doing - why don't you publish an aiding book of "how to read this saga", what comes before what, how you designed the books' connection and all the rest?
You could have a book of an introduction to your endless saga! (And if you had the whole saga in a single, paperback volume, it would look like a single Tom Clancy book.)
What do you say? JH
P.S. I'm a little creative today. I've gone bonkers.
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Is an entire book really needed to explain the saga? It could just be the foreword in the next book. I really don't see how it could take more than a few paragraphs. Hell, I'd volunteer to write it for Mr. Card if he's busy! Imagine, an insightful and comprehensive foreword written by a dedicated fan! He could make a contest out of it. Fans submit an entry of 500 words or less (or however long he wants it to be) and Mr. Card picks the best and publishes it in the next book. But he'd probably never have time to read all the submissions... Okay, that's not gonna happen. Or he could simply include an Enderverse timeline at the front of the book or something.
As for the whole saga in one volume, I think it's a bit too much for that. If each of the 8 books averages 350 pages, we're looking at around 2800 pages total. That's more than twice as long as The Lord of the Rings!
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We're not talking 8 books, we're talking 13, going on to 15 or whatever (counting "First Meetings" as one telling).
If Mr Card gets 20 books about Ender, Bean and the reast, we're talking about an introductory book, and Mr Card will need to re-release the finalised version of it - with all introductions taken off, but incorporated into a whole new Encyclopaedic book.
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Good idea. But, it would seem to me, you are asking an awful lot of OSC. More work and all that jazz, you know?
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Oh, I see. You're talking about farther down the road. I don't think that that OSC will write that many more Ender related books though. He'd have to open it up to other authors, and I don't think that I want him to do that...
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My opinion is that a complete book would be kind of... too much. Perhaps he could just make a very short, sweet, and simple 'guide to books' in the front of the books that just says the books in chronological order.
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