Couldn't seem to find it so I'll just ask: Has OSC anywhere given answer as to whether Shadow of the Giant is the definitivly last instalment in the Ender saga?
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Anomander:
quote: sfd: Is this the last of the Ender-related novels, or do you have some more ideas you'd like to explore?
OSC: As I developed the Shadow series and made decisions about how the books would end, it became clear that there was a wonderful story to tell at the very end of the series, after Children of the Mind, that would bind the two storylines together. And just yesterday (7 March), I realized that Shadow of the Giant leaves a tantalizing thread involving a woman and her son who are on a colony planet, and their story opens up wonderfully well if Ender himself goes to that world upon leaving his first colony planet. So there'll be another book between Shadow of the Giant and Speaker for the Dead. However, that doesn't change the fact that the storyline of the four Shadow books is closed with Shadow of the Giant. What I hadn't realized until I was well along in the series was that it would really be as much Peter's story as Bean's. And it's Peter's story that ends the Shadow series at four.
Is a snippet of an interview given this year and posted HERE which I got to through a link here from this site.
It has also been addressed several times on the other side in various threads, but since the above is a good synopsis in his own words, I chose to answer you with that.
Farmgirl
Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
Its been somewhat decided that theres two books, one for before Speaker yet after EG and other after Children of the Mind and after SoTG.