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Posted by stone_maiden (Member # 4071) on :

Everyone is taking the tie-in book for granted, but I'm not. Don't get me wrong or anything--I LOVE the Shadow series and the character development of the real Peter, but only because I'm sifting through the pages out of nostalgia for the former Speaker series. I loved those books, and I zealously wait for the tie-in, but what will happen if they decide not to do it at all?

Will I imagine out absurd scenarios in my pithy little mind? Probably. Will they be of the quality of this ramble? Probably.

Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :

What will happen? Probably nothing. People would be disappointed, sure, but we'd be conforted by whatever books were written in its place. Though I still think it will be written eventually. It's a great concept that I'm eager to read.

Posted by stone_maiden (Member # 4071) on :

I know that this topic's been tried and trite, but I had to say something about it when I realized that the Ender and Shadow series were my favorite books in the world.

Posted by Stephen (Member # 6078) on :

What exactly is this tie-in you speak of? What is supposed to happen in it?

Posted by Grandma Edie (Member # 5771) on :

Stephen,

The "tie-in book" refers to a possible book that Card hopes to write that will tie the Shadow Books and the Speaker Books together in one saga.

At the end of Ender's Gamewe are told that Peter, Hegemon of Earth, when dying in old age, asks his brother, Ender, to write a book to Speak for him, telling all his good and bad, just as Ender did for the Hive Queen. Presumably, this is one of the things that will happen in it.

Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

Didn't OSC say it would have something to do with Bean's Children and the Lusitanians/Descoladores? Not as much a 'bridge' book, but a final, EnderVerse capping conclusion

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner. [Wink]

Or at least that's what's been hinted at, and as I recall at one of the signings (or maybe it was all the way back at EnderCon, I can't remember now) he said that's what he wanted to do with it. I suppose it could've changed in that (rather significant) period of time but that's what I've heard. [Cool]

Hobbes

Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :

I believe the description is on PWEB. Let me go find it.

Edit: Nope, can't find it.

[ January 07, 2004, 02:54 PM: Message edited by: Julie ]