sci fi books discussion

what is it about ender and bean that everybody likes so much. i mean i like 'em but i dont know why...

LOL I don't remember it's been forever since I read Ender's Game. I was thinking about rereading it. Problem is I don't have my desktop atm, which is where the ebook resides.

I always wondered, what was ebook?

Ebooks are books you can get on your computer and read. Some people steal them, other people buy them. But they are downloadable books basically.

electronic books = ebooks

This is one of my fav sites:
http://www.online-literature.com/

I started Ender's Game yesterday and stayed up until almost 1 this morning :oD I love the characters. You cant help but like Ender. I should be done with it later today. Thanks for suggesting it!

LOL I thought the book started way slow but gets way better later on. :D

Finished Ender's Game last night. I was a little diappointed with the ending( hahah of Ender) is this a series? What's next?

Eliza:

http://www.iblist.com/series33.htm

That's got the list of the series. As far as I can tell they are in order. Apparently the series is still going cus one says 2008.

I was reading the book summaries, but some of them seemed out of chronological order. Sooooo I looked this up. Looks like I have a lot of reading ahead! Just in time for the Christmas break! I need to check the local libraries :o)Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia...

Publication date

Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Giant
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
Ender in Exile

Chronological order

Ender's Game
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (set during Ender's Game)
Ender's Shadow (Parallel Novel to Ender's Game as seen by Bean)
Ender in Exile (begins at the end of Ender's Game and ends after Giant leading into Speaker)
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Giant
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind

just a note, eliza, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind get really wierd, but still good.

What do you mean by "really wierd" ?

It has been so long since I read Ender's Game. At the time I had no idea that it was only one in a series. If I had known at the time I probably would have read them all, but I didn't, so I didn't.
I really did enjoy the book Ender's Game. I thought it was a facinating look into how you can manipulate people to do what you want and make it all just seem like a game.
I loved the ending of the book and have often reflected on the idea of a Speaker for the Dead.
Like I said though it was so long ago that I read it that I don't rememer a lot of the story. It was good enough for me to recommend this book to my husband and my nephew who both enjoyed reading the book.

I recommended it to a few of my students. Two picked up the book and are almost done with it. I had to smile today because I heard them recommending it to a few other guys, so I hope it spreads much like the Twilight books did here at school! reading is contagious!

First time I read it was for school. It was one of the first books I ever had to read for school that wasn't complete crap. So I am pleased. A lot of people have already read it, and those who haven't are either missing out or fail at life for not wanting to read it.

the wierdness is just that it is different then other sci-fi books.

Enders Game is the best book of all time. The other books in the series are quite good as well. If you all haven't read them, I would highly recommend them! Ender as an adult is very cool.

Ender's Game is one of my favorites. I was told that the rest of the books weren't very good, so I haven't bothered to read them. I'm rethinking that now.

good

Rustyford: The other books are just different from the first. The "Shadow Series" is much more political. The "Ender's Series" is more philisophical. If you're a fan of the typical "Sci-fi" genre, you would probably be more interested in the Ender's Series (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind) than the Shadow Series.

Rustyford - Whomever told you they suck was probably wrong. I had a friend reading them in highschool and he said they were pretty damn good.

so many of the Ender books I have to read now... haven't in a long longtime.

well read them again!

Hello everyone and thanks for the invite Olin. Now the rest of you can blame him if I get long winded. OSC is one of my favorite writers. I have read all the Ender books, Memory of Earth books, Alvin Maker books, and several others. My wife met him at a National Council for Teachers of English meeting in Atlanta and got me a signed edition of Shadow Puppets. She got to the book signing late and everyone was gone, except for a couple of people just milling around at the ends of the aisles. She commented to a friend she was with, that OSC was my favorite writer and how disappointed I was going to be when she told me about missing him when a gentleman standing with his back to them at the end of the aisle spoke up and said something like " well, you never know when he'll show back up". He turned around and introduced himself, pulled a book off a stack, signed it and told her he didn't want her husband to be disappointed. She and her friend were able to talk with him for a little bit before he left. She told me that he was a very interesting and nice person. Anyway, having read all of these books, and don't get me wrong, I love Enders Game, I believe that his writing and storytelling got better as the books continued. Enders Shadow is definitely a must read. And Stefhu is correct, Most of the shadow series is more International Political Intrigue(sp) than science fiction, but they involve a lot of the characters in the Enders Game books. If you have the time, read The Worthing Chronicles and the Memory of Earth books.

Brian:

Glad to see another OSC fan! Very cool story about the book signing. I can't wait to read the new Ender book! I also just got ahold of a copy of Songmaster which I've never read. Very excited about that too.

The student that asked to keep my Ender's Game copy just lent me Ender in Exile! He said it was his Christmas present :oD now I need to find time to read it! I hope its as good as Ender's Game :o)

Eliza wrote: "The student that asked to keep my Ender's Game copy just lent me Ender in Exile! He said it was his Christmas present :oD now I need to find time to read it! I hope its as good as Ender's Game :o)"
I still haven't gotten around to reading the rest of the Enders series. But I do hope you enjoy it. :D

I haven't finished all the books in the Ender series yet, but I would say that Speaker for the Dead is by far my favorite so far. And to get a little context I've read Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and the entire Ender's Shadow series except Shadow Puppets. I think they are all spectacular so far, but Speaker for the Dead blew my mind!

just wait til you read children of the mind!

Brian wrote: "Hello everyone and thanks for the invite Olin. Now the rest of you can blame him if I get long winded. OSC is one of my favorite writers. I have read all the Ender books, Memory of Earth books, Alv..."

I met him quite accidentally back in the 80's at a used book store. He was great. I have two books he signed. I was already in awe of him when I met him and was quite tongue tied. He was gracious and signed two Alvin books.

I agree that "The Worthington Chronicles" are great.
"Speaker for the Dead" was my favorite in the Ender saga, although I've enjoyed Bean's adventures and I am looking forward to the final(?) Earth Afire book. I also enjoyed "The Lost Gate" and wish he would add to the series.