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Posted by Clumpy (Member # 8122) on :

Kind of a specific question regarding a Christmas list [Smile]

When I originally read the Ender series I read them in books that weren't shaped like typical novels. These books weren't fat and lay flat. These paperbacks were shaped almost like old-school computer manuals or (for the LDS crowd) were the shape of hymnbooks.

Can somebody help me out? A link would be fantastic and I would be eternally in your anonymous online debt.

Posted by kacard (Member # 200) on :

From your description, you may be talking about the trade paperback editions. Your bookstores can probably order them (if they are still in print -- but I think they are).

Posted by Pegasus (Member # 10464) on :

The version that I have (the only one I have ever read) is Ender's Game + Speaker for the Dead in 1 book titled Ender's War. I haven't seen this version for sale new anywhere, it was just lent to me, apparently permantly. [Wink]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Ender's War hasn't been reprinted since 1986, IIRC. Used copies are fairly easy to find though.

Posted by neo-dragon (Member # 7168) on :

Ender's War was available through the Science Fiction Book Club as a recently as a few years ago, but not any more, I don't think.

Posted by Clumpy (Member # 8122) on :

Yes! Thanks for your help. I just found the softcover or trade paperback versions online.

Posted by DDDaysh (Member # 9499) on :

It's so weird that there are SO many print versions of the same book. I understand the reasons behind it, but it still boggles the mind!

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Originally posted by neo-dragon:
Ender's War was available through the Science Fiction Book Club as a recently as a few years ago, but not any more, I don't think.

Certainly not for quite a few years. But I had forgotten they had reprinted it after Doubleday.

Thanks for the reminder. [Smile]

Posted by neo-dragon (Member # 7168) on :

quote:
Originally posted by rivka:

quote:
Originally posted by neo-dragon:
Ender's War was available through the Science Fiction Book Club as a recently as a few years ago, but not any more, I don't think.
Certainly not for quite a few years. But I had forgotten they had reprinted it after Doubleday.

Thanks for the reminder.

Well, maybe not a few years ago, but I still have a catalog from 2001 that his it.

Posted by Pegasus (Member # 10464) on :

Out of sheer curiousness I decided to check my copy. It's a Doubleday, and the only dates listed are a © 1894 Ender's Game and © 1986 Speaker for the Dead. The dust jacket is missing, has a piece of duct tape holding it together, and coffee stains on some pages from a near miss car accident (reading while riding)

Clumpy: Sorry for the derail. [Wave]

[ November 26, 2007, 07:11 PM: Message edited by: Pegasus ]

Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :

" © 1894 Ender's Game"

The 1894 edition is one of the oldest extant editions, and one of only two available from the 19th century.

*checks carefully to avoid proving Davidson's Law*