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Posted by confusedthird (Member # 13178) on :
 
How come in Ender's Stocking Valentine says they've moved into a different house, one Ender will never know but in Shadow of the Hegemon Bean walks up to the old family home where Ender grew up and Mrs. Wiggin is there asking if he's lost and invites him in once she realizes who he is. Both cannot be canon but yet... hmm
 

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Posted by vineyarddawg (Member # 13007) on :
 
Let me explain... no, there is too much. Let me sum up: The Enderverse has quite a number of continuity issues where newer material contradicts older material. This is one of them.
 

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Posted by DustinDopps (Member # 12640) on :
 
There was a page you were supposed to print out and put in Shadow of the Hegemon in place of the error. Or something. I remember reading about it, but never did it.

In other words, it's a glaring error and there was nothing they could do to fix it because by the time they noticed the book had been published.
 

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Posted by Geraine (Member # 9913) on :
 
Maybe they just rented the old one out for a while, then moved back?
 

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Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
 
Well, as retcons go, I think that one's in the uncanny valley between convincing and hilariously Rube Goldberg-esque.
 

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Posted by millernumber1 (Member # 9894) on :
 
I thought Shadow of the Hegemon they explicitly say that it's not the house he grew up in?
 

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Posted by millernumber1 (Member # 9894) on :
 
Yup, just checked it - on p171 in the paperback, Theresa says "He didn't grow up here and we don't give tours."
 

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Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
 

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Originally posted by millernumber1:
I thought Shadow of the Hegemon they explicitly say that it's not the house he grew up in?

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