I think an awesome Idea and what I would love to see is a companion book for the ender series. the hive queen and the hegemon and the life of human.. it would be hard as I think many fan s would expect so much but even 3 separate shorts or what ever. What dose everyone else think would it be worth reading?
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I'd be pretty interested in the speaking of San Angelo. Or some of the letters that got Locke and Demosthenes into power. Unfortunately, Card is not actually any of his brilliant characters. He just suggests we imagine something and fill in the blanks.
Posted by Neon cricket (Member # 9729) on :
I am sure we are all aware that these are fictional character. I think what made the book in the enderverse so strong was that Speakers tell all good, bad, secret and unspeakable. it dose not take brilliance of a fictional character it takes the Imagination of a wrighter and the imagination of the reader.
Posted by Carl Conrad Coreander (Member # 7851) on :
I don't like that idea. thethiefhekindlyspoke.pbwiki.com
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Posted by hatrkr81 (Member # 9317) on :
Sure it would be worth reading if it was ever written, but I don't think it ever will be written. Like Pooka says, "we imagine something and fill in the blanks". And that works for me! For us fans of the Enderverse or Card in general, it would be an exciting read, but it may not go over so well with the general public or general sci-fi reader. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it wouldn't be very profitable. I think it would be cool to see something like this in IGMS, maybe some Locke and Demosthenes articles as Pooka mentioned. I think it would go over well with the IGMS crowd.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
I don't know, I've always thought that "world"-like series don't need to explain everything. There are always loose ends, more or less important. There are always hints of more, but sometimes you can deduce what that "more" was without needing it to be written.
We were given the motives for which Locke's and Demostene's articles were so powerful. We already know Peter the Hegemon and the Hive Queen. We've lived with the Pequeninos. We were there most of the times, no need for a recap.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
The Hive Queen gets a pretty good synopsis. I even wrote an essay that incorporated part of it once, also the Borg and Serenity. It was something along the lines of uniformity vs. conformity.
There is not much to the Hegemon, but I guess we get that in the Shadow series, though the massacres are not things Peter was directly responsible for in the way the original sketch from Ender's Game made it sound.
The life of Human, as I recall, was kind of in between, but since most of the book had been about the discovery of that information, it didn't have the same sense of mystery as the Hive Queen. Well, now I'm thinking about it, Isn't the Life of Human in first person?
Posted by CRash (Member # 7754) on :
I would rather read something like pooka suggested, San Angelo's speaking.
I don't want to know what characters in the story have written; I want to know more about the characters themselves. Besides, Ender is the one who wrote the books, and OSC isn't Ender. Not to hurt anyone's feelings, but I think many people would be disappointed with the outcome.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
There was a thread about how he could write someone smarter than him a while back.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I've been trying to extract all the information I can about San Angelo from SFtD. Andrew spoke his death about 40 years before Starways Congress was established. He has quotes guiding the establishment of Filhos monasteries apparently during his lifetime. The Pope recognized the order about 1600 SC, and they had already assumed the leadership of most catholic schools before the colinization of Lusitania, prior to 1900 SC.
Also mentioned is that one of main reasons for the founding of Starways Congress was religious persecution.
It is a common expression that Christ has no hands but ours. I think San Angelo's response to this would be that likewise he has no minds but ours, with which to work his will in the worlds. His mind is all-powerful, and shall one day embrace us, but we are created to love God and serve one another with our whole being, including the mind. As Charity is God's work of the hands, Hope is God's work of the mind. Or maybe Faith. Faith being that mental activity by which we manifest what we behold. How important, then, to keep an eye single to the Glory of God.
I have to say reading Pope Benedicts's speech last week and the seriousness with which he treated God's reason has really affected my thinking on this.