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Well, it won't be coming out this year after all.

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Well, I guess two great books in one year is still good.
 

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Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
 
"it will NOT be sappy and sweet."

Thank God! I get really sick and tired of xmas episodes of Cartoon or book X that always has a sappy xmas episode. Like c'mon it should be the goal of a TV series to teach morals through metaphors or the equivilent of subliminal messaging it should be taught through the actions of the characters NOT from the mouths of the characters themselves.
 

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Posted by dab (Member # 7847) on :
 
As much as I am looking forward to this book, and am dissapointed at the delay, I hope this extra year will give some inspiration to a better title than "Christmas in Battleschool". Surely there is a more marketable title that would suit the same purpose.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
my . . . new . . . magazine . . . ?!


 

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my . . . new . . . magazine . . . ?!

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I'll be doing Advent Rising instead.

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Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:
You'll be playing it? Didn't that game come out a month ago? [/QB]

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he'll be writing the book that goes with and farther than the story in the game

please pay attention
 

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Posted by neo-dragon (Member # 7168) on :
 
So I guess it'll be quite a while before we see "Shadows in Flight", or the tentatively titled "Ender in Exile"... Oh well. Patience is a virtue.
 

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Posted by Jiminy (Member # 7917) on :
 
Patience is your MOM'S virtue. I want Ender in Exile in my mailbox tomorrow morning or I'm gonna go upstairs and throw my legos all over the room again.
 

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Posted by neo-dragon (Member # 7168) on :
 
I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm only so patient because I have access to a time machine. I've already gone into the future and gotten copies of all forthcoming Ender books. They're all great! I've also seen the Ender's Game movie. They got the perfect kid to play Ender! The film wins best picture, and breaks Titanic's box office record.
 

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Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
 
At the risk of annoying our host...


Bean crept over the ducting to get a better look. The man kept bustling about, always blocking the monitor, but Bean had learned how to be patient in the streets of Rotterdam. Impatient boys died. Bean was a survivor.

Finally he got a clear shot and watched as a password was entered. Bean memorized it easily and began backing up, inch by inch, to return to his barracks before anyone noticed. It took him nearly a half hour before he emerged, naked and filthy, from the vent grill.

After he climbed into bed and let his breathing patterns follow their natural rhythm into what would appear to be deep sleep, he slid his desk out and, curled around it to keep it invisible from prying eyes, logged in.

"CLAUS," he typed. "PASSWORD: KRING01." Amateur.

Long lists of Battle School students streamed past, each one with a "naughty" or "nice" designation. Obviously chosen arbitrarily, he noticed, as the labels had little to do with actual student performance and everything to do with how charming or personally ingratiating the students were. Such was the way of the world, even when you were no longer in the world.

Bean called up the list again and started changing some of the labels. Not all of them, just a few, here and there, to make sure that Ender's jeesh would get the recognition they deserved. Such largesse might be wasted on Bean himself, having never experienced the heady anticipation and family joys of Christmas, but it would help bond the others into a closer unit. That would be important, Bean knew. Soldiers without presents would feel less than the others, inadequate, left out.

He had finished -- after a quick mental struggle he decided to change his own listing to "nice" as well so as not to stand out -- and moved to sign off when he noticed another list. One keystroke and he was looking at the staff records.

In the darkness, Bean smiled. Oh, you've been a naughty boy, Graff...
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Nicely done, Chris.
 

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Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
 
it would be sinterklaas me thinks y'know dutch upbringing.
 

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Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
 
Who, Bean? Bean wasn't brought up Dutch. Remember, the Netherlands had become such an internationalized place that most people there didn't even speak Dutch.

Actually, Bean didn't have an "upbringing" at all. If anything, he was brought up Battle School.
 

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Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
 
Still, Whenever he mentions Santa he says Sinterklass or something similarily spelt.
 

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Posted by JohnHansen (Member # 41) on :
 
OSC mentioned the postponement of his "precious" Christmas at Battleschool book. I believe he said something about his publisher not being willing to work a miracle for him to get it out by this Christmas.

He also mentioned something about writing the novelization of Advent Rising having previously written the dialog for the game.

And he mentioned that he would soon be publishing quarterly an electronic SF magazine. I don't recall whether he said it was purely Sci-Fi or whether it was generically speculative fiction and would include Fantasy as well. The magazine will be a paid subscription access sort of thing. He mentioned something like $2.00 or $2.50 - along those lines, at least. He said other authors would be given permission to write stories for the publication about characters in the Ender universe - excluding characters that OSC has used or will use. It sounded very interesting.

John Hansen
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Chris, for a minute there I was sure I was losing my mind.

I liked the original, but the slight changes do make for better flow.
 

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Posted by ailurophobic (Member # 8343) on :
 
Chris. That was the most brilliant thing EVER.
 

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Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
 
Guess what. We're postponing Christmas at Battle School till next Christmas. We're working instead to get Advent Rising done ASAP. Got to have our priorities here.

But the Dink Meeker portion of the story will probably be a short story in the second issue of Orson Scott Card's Fantasy Book, which will probably come out in November.
 

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Posted by CRash (Member # 7754) on :
 
November? Cool! That just made my day.
 

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Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
 
Where can we find the first edition?
 

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Posted by R. Ann Dryden (Member # 8186) on :
 
It isn't out yet. OSC will make an announcement, I am sure.

I'm really looking forward to it.
 

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Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
 
Thanks!
 

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Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
 
Cool!
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
I'm so confused . . . is "Orson Scott Card's Fantasy Book" the name of this new magazine? And it publishes science fiction? Does it pay/is it open to submissions?

And what is "Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest?" Is it something else entirely? Is OSC connected to it?


 

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Posted by R. Ann Dryden (Member # 8186) on :
 
I'm hoping OSC will answer this question. As far as Apex is concerned, as far as I know he is not connected.

My story "Respite" will be appearing in the first issue of the magazine, but I hesitate to disclose too many details about it before OSC himself releases the information.

And right now the only submissions he is accepting (except mine because he turned my application down, saying I didn't need to take the class, he already wanted to buy my story) are from former boot campers.
 

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