"Ender in Exile" by OSC?

[RoJoHen]

So I was at Borders this afternoon, and what do I see? A new sequel to "Ender's Game"!

"Ender's Game" is my favorite novel, and I love (to varying degrees) all of the sequels. I'm glad Orson Scott Card is keeping the universe going, as I love these characters. This novel is one of those "lost era" type stories. It takes place immediately after "Ender's Game," and is the story of child Ender leaving Earth to go off and colonize planets.

I'm pretty excited. Last winter we got the little Ender Christmas book, which had a couple short stories. I enjoyed that as a little piece of the Enderverse, but I'm looking forward to jumping into this new adventure.

 

[ATimson]

I liked Ender in Exile about two-thirds of the way through. Unfortunately, the last third or so felt rather rushed to me--they were originally what Ender in Exile was supposed to be about, and I can't help but wonder if they deserved their own book.

 

[SalvorHardin]

I really liked Ender's Game but never really got around to reading any of the other books in the series...
I guess I should get to it one of these days

 

[Starbreaker]

I do not like Orson Scott Card, but I do like Ender's Game and I have been meaning to get around to Speaker for the Dead, but It just never happens.

 

[Ruaidhri]

I stopped reading OSC after I sifted through Empire. His writing has a consistent trait that always irritates the hell out of me, even when I'm enjoying the story. His main characters tend to be too smart.

There's a lot of "We could do this to beat the enemy! But they may already know that were going to do that, so we'll do the opposite! But they may know that we know that they know, soooooooo...." And so on, ad infinitum.

Really, really turns me off his stuff.

 

[Technobuilder]

I read the original Ender's Game Quartet about 15 years ago around the age of 10 or 11 enjoying it quite a bit...

Eventually, I followed it up with Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, & Shadow Puppets right after I started university about 6 years ago.

I never did get around to reading Shadow of the Giant, as things kept coming up and I eventually lost interest, but knowing that the books have continued in some form, piques my curiosity enough to go back and maybe take another look.

I still remember being so proud of the fact that at the ripe old age of "just hitting double digits" I'd finished 4 books of 300+ pages in a little less than a week.

Nowadays, it's just what I do. I've always got a book with me, but back then... It was impressive.

Nostalgia aside, I'd have to agree with Ruaidhri than OSC's style can be a bit irksome if you're not willing to allow for it.

 

[RoJoHen]

I do not like Orson Scott Card, but I do like Ender's Game and I have been meaning to get around to Speaker for the Dead, but It just never happens.

"Speaker for the Dead" is easily just as good as "Ender's Game," but it's a completely different kind of story.

 

[Trent Roman]

I liked Ender in Exile about two-thirds of the way through. Unfortunately, the last third or so felt rather rushed to me--they were originally what Ender in Exile was supposed to be about, and I can't help but wonder if they deserved their own book.

That seems to happen a lot with Card, judging by his introductions in my editions of the Ender books - he spends so much time developing the set-up that by the time he gets to the ideas he actually wants to talk about, he has to put it off to another book.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[CorporalClegg]

I stopped reading OSC after I sifted through Empire. His writing has a consistent trait that always irritates the hell out of me, even when I'm enjoying the story. His main characters tend to be too smart.

There's a lot of "We could do this to beat the enemy! But they may already know that were going to do that, so we'll do the opposite! But they may know that we know that they know, soooooooo...." And so on, ad infinitum.

Really, really turns me off his stuff.

My problem with OSC is his politics. And it isn't even that I don't like them, it's that the books (Especially the Bean saga) became is own bully pulpit.

And I do prefer the main saga a lot more: Game is great, Speaker excellent, and Xeno and Children are just kind of meh. (I've often thought the last two would have been better served truncated down and merged into one book and make it a trilogy.)

No idea what this last one is, but I'm sure I'll read it one of these days.

 

[OmahaStar]

I do not like Orson Scott Card

Agreed. None of his books will pass the threshold of my home.

 

[ATimson]

And I do prefer the main saga a lot more: Game is great, Speaker excellent, and Xeno and Children are just kind of meh. (I've often thought the last two would have been better served truncated down and merged into one book and make it a trilogy.)

The last two were supposed to be one book, but (as Trent Roman alluded to above) they were expanded into two when Card got off his intended track.

No idea what this last one is, but I'm sure I'll read it one of these days.

It's a mishmash of both; it expands the last chapter of Ender's Game, but also serves to tie off at least one loose end from the Bean series in the process. (In a way that will probably make no sense to anybody who hasn't read at least Ender's Shadow, if not the rest of the Bean books. But at least it's a fairly apolitical loose end.)