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Hey. At first I wasn't sure where I could find a community to discuss the Ender's Game series. Then I recalled OSC thanking members of this site for their input in his acknowledgements page, so I thought I'd take a shot in the dark.
After rereading Shadow Puppets and SoTG I was curious, Volescu creates nine embryos for Bean and Petra. I also recalled a conversation between John Paul and Theresa about how they name their children. It brings me to these questions: what influenced OSC to choose the names he chose for the characters, and why did OSC choose nine as the number of embryos created?
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nine is a fairy tale number along with three and seven... at least acording to my english teacher
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Were there 12 and 3 got disposed of? Or were there always 9?
Acutally, I was reading about Catch-22 the other day and there was quite an arduous process in arriving at 22 cited on wiki. Don't know if it is worth the paper it's printed on But it was interesting. 18 and 11 were taken, and 14 was "not a funny number".
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There were always nine (three with Bean, five with Petra, one . . . somewhere.
I think it's OSC's way of showing that Petra and Bean (like many others) were only too glad to see the population restrictions end. Posts: 100 | Registered: Oct 2006
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The wiggin family had 3 kids, pooka may have been on to something. . . Third by third makes for a brilliant Nine Posts: 201 | Registered: Mar 2006
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Nine babies because you can physically control 8 with two parents and two nannies, but with 9 you need a third nanny, but the third nanny just ends up seeming embarrassingly gratuitous since she only gets one kid, so it's a really awfully awkward number of kids to have.
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But it was interesting. 18 and 11 were taken, and 14 was "not a funny number".
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