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I have a question for anyone who has already read (or written) SOTG...
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At the end of the book, Bean and his chidren are zipping away from earth, never to be heard from again...
Will we? Will there be another book in the Enderverse where Bean returns? I'm thinking that with Jane's instantaneous transportation technology and all that good stuff, that Bean could be healed.
Otherwise, just letting him blast off into nowhere until the end of time would really suck - it's not a heroic death, but rather much more of a death-in-life.
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Well, there's apparently gonna be one more book that ties the two series together, and I was thinking pretty much the way you were. Bean could probably use the instantaneous transportation to heal himself, although by the time they get 3000 or whatever years into the future, he'd probably be dead, even with the relativity(but maybe not, ). His kids could certainly live that long.
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As for curing Bean, why wouldn't stopping his pituitary glands as done with most giants after they've had their Guiness Book glory work?
It's a shame that Card used the Speaker Trilogy to follow Ender through his entire life. That being said, there could be some FUN, twisted encounters with Bean meeting Ender's erm, shall we say "posterity."
And we all thought Children of the Mind was strange taken out of context.
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great i looked at this thread thinking "how bad can the spoiler be the book isn't out yet"... so i had to order it from Amazon cos it's not out in Australia and i think i'll have to stay away from hatrack until the book gets all the way over here!
maybe i can do some memory repression therapy till then.... Posts: 46 | Registered: Dec 2004
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The official release date is March 8th but we started to see them in the bookstores last week over here in the US. I got my copy on Friday. Be careful where to look on the board. Sometimes people slips without “spoiler” notice. Of course you shouldn’t be reading this thread. Posts: 333 | Registered: Feb 2002
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I just finished it last night. I loved the book. An author like Robin Hobb writes incredibly beautiful prose, in my opinion, but she takes 10 chapters to have the protagonist meet disaster. I like OSC's tempo. In every chapter they are kicking but and taking names.
I was happy with how it ended. It wasn't happily ever after for everyone, but I think the ends were tied up as much as they could be. Things are earth were as settled as they could be. When I started reading the early chapter about Randi (was that her name?) I though, "crap, how many books is it going to take to finish this?" But I think the way they ended it worked. Obviously there is more that can be written, but it doesn't leave the earth stuff hanging.
One part that I didn't like was how the members of Ender's Jeesh, when they got together, still bantered with each other and Graff/Rackam like they were 14 years old still. Then I realized I just WANTED them to act more mature, but you could make an argument that while they managed adult geopolitical/war kinds of issues like adults, there would be good reason to suspect that their social development would be lagging.
The first chapter, with Hot Soup in China, is one of my favorites the series.
Someone should have a site where people can submit short stories about all of the Battle School grads going to the new colonies.
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I thought it would have been an interresting tie-in if Volescu's virus would have been somehow launched into space and was the start of the descoladers. Although 3000 years might be too short for the descoladers to develop, send out the probes, and then the piggies develop.
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I bet Anton's Key is probably related to what happened on Path, except, it was altered so that OCD, and more convenient control over the geniouses was the result.
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