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I just finished the thirds book xenocide and the whole time i was reading that book i always thought that the hive queen and the hegemon were the same book, one book. I just relized that they were two different books as i am reading the children of the mind. Anyone else think that?
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The Hive Queen and the Hegemon were two different stories, written at different times, but they were combined into one volume which, I believe, later included The Life Of Human.
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Yes, originally The Hive Queen and The Hegemon were written seperatly, but was combined at some point in time. Then The Life of Human was written, but I don't remember if CotM said it was combined with the previous two into one volume.
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I wonder if anyone's going to write them in full. The Hive Queen and The Hegemon, I mean. with the info we've got by now it wouldn't be too hard, right? well - for anyone who's good at writing epic poetry anyway.
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It wouldn't have to be epic poetry. Xenocide has an excerpt of The Life of Human, and it wasn't poetry at all, maybe some poetic elements, but definately prose. I think only an Ender could write it..... how about Card writes it out for us if they make a Legends III?
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I can't imagine anyone could write The Hive Queen and the Hegemon simply because of the reputation that it would need to live up to. In the Enderverse the book was influential enough to completely change the views of humanity and even create a new 'religion'.
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quote: I can't imagine anyone could write The Hive Queen and the Hegemon simply because of the reputation that it would need to live up to. In the Enderverse the book was influential enough to completely change the views of humanity and even create a new 'religion'.
Right, that's why (I think I read this in a different thread) OSC said that he would never write it, because if he wrote it, it wouldn't be nearly as good as everyone imagines it to be.
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hey Billy, your not alone it wasn't until Ender wrote "the life of human" that i realized it was Ender's Third book of speaking.
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OSC clarifies this in SOTG when he puts the actual dialogue between Ender and Peter concerning the writing of The Hegemon. Though I agree it would be interesting to read these books I think we get enough of a sense of them through Xenocide and COTM as well as SOTG that I am content.
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