Hey look, I'm deep into all of his (Ender series), I've alwready worked off the Ender Saga, and I'm halfway though the Shadow Saga. You see in my bookstores (as I'm sure its the same in your book stores) Card's novels are always in stock, I mean that would be like having a movie store that dosen't carry the Star-Wars flicks, or "Gone with the wind" as apposed to some really obscure titles. So I went to go buy the "Shadow of the Hegemon" and my world was turned upside down. I always thought that I knew the order of all of his books. I originally thought that the Ender Series went:
Ender's Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind Shadow of Ender Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets
But then when I went to pick up "Shadow of the Hegemon" I saw this hardback book I never saw before. It was called "Shadow of the Giant!" I was dumbfounded. I've never heard reference to this book or anything, and so I looked in the front of "Shadow of the Hedgemon" to see about the order of books, but that was changed to, and down at the bottom of the list there was another book called "Meetings." ......So, two new books that I have never heard of much less seen. They seemed obscure, and now I'm starting to worry. Are these official books of the Ender series? (The ender series encompassing both the Ender and Shadow Sagas)
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Shadow of the Giant is the eighth and final Ender novel (well, for now anyway - search this forum for more on that). First Meetings is a collection of four short stories that occur before and between the Enderverse novels.
Posted by X12 (Member # 5867) on :
To help you out a bit:
In the Ender (specific) series: Ender's Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind
In the Bean (specific) series: Eder's Shadow Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of a Giant
Then you have First Meetings (in the Enderverse), that, which like El JT de Spang said, are a compilation of 3 ss that fill in some blanks in the stories, and, of course, the original Ender's Game ss.
The chronological order (well, as close as can be ) is:
"The Polish Boy" (First Meetings [in the Enderverse]) "Teacher's Pest" (First Meetings [in the Enderverse]) Ender's Game* "Ender's Game" (First Meetings [in the Enderverse])* Ender's Shadow* Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of a Giant "The Investment Counselor" (First Meetings [in the Enderverse]) (approx.) Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind
* = Parralel stories
Of course, Senior OSC has other plans too, which we'll be the first to read .
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Senior OSC? Is there a Junior OSC? Posted by Wesley (Member # 7963) on :
Thank you, this is magnificent information.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
There's a story called "Mazer in Prison" (though the title may change) which takes place before any of these. Just to make things more confusing. Of course, I just wrote it and it won't be published for a few months or maybe weeks ... so for right now, except for a few title alterations (THE Giant), the order is as stated above.
Posted by ssywak (Member # 807) on :
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