Interesting tidbit: "Ender in Exile: Ganges" is now the working title for the new book. This is the first official indication I've seen of the "Ganges" subtitle - looks like the whole Virlomi idea has been adopted.
Mr. Card: could you elaborate on why the Alvin novels are the most fun to write? And while you're at it, why is it "most fun" and not "funnest"? (always wondered)
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See old thread Ganges as the Planet for more discussion on the topic of Ganges.
As to more about Ganges, see Xenocide, page 62:
quote:"...human philotic twinings go way beyond those of any other life form." "Now you're talking about that stuff that came from Ganges a thousand years ago," said Valentine..."It's all very pleasingly mystical, but nobody except Gangean Hindus takes it seriously anymore."
One thing to point out: "A thousand years ago" would have been only two thousand years before the Speaker trilogy. If Card plans to make Ganges the first planet Ender visits, it will either be before the research into philotes, or a possible plot error.
As was pointed out by Suri-Cool and in the B&N SotG discussion, the only other potential speedbump I see is that Virlomi's colony was Andhra, not Ganges. Giant, page 355:
quote: ...Virlomi herself repudiated that interpretation, writing by ansible from the colony on Andhra.
Of course, that doesn't mean that Andhra was the name of the colony, and Ganges was the eventually adopted name for some reason. But names of worlds aren't everything...I don't remember how many names there've been for Ender's colony world.
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