[Keziah]

I am planning on reading Ender's Game and thought i'd check out what the other books in the series were first. I've checked some old threads and some web sites but i just can't figure it out - could someone clear up for me what the other books are and what order they go in?
Thanks, Nac

[fortytwo]

1... Ender's Game
2... Speaker for the Dead
3... Xenocide
4... Children of the Mind

42

[kater]

5.) Enders Shadow
6.) Shadow of the Hegemon
7.) Shadow Puppets(due for release within the next three weeks)

I have to say that 5 & 6 are brilliant pieces much closer To Enders Game than 2,3 & 4 were. Enjoy

[Keziah]

Thanks 42 and kater, i never like starting a series unless i know where i'm going next.

[James Barclay]

Personally, I haven't read any others than Ender's Game and that didn't stop me enjoying what is a brilliant book.

My advice would be, read it and then decide if you want to read more...

[kater]

It will become obvious if hasn't already that I am one of those nutters standing on the corner of the street screaming "The end is nigh" only my invocation is "You must read all Orson Scott Card's books". Can I just ask NOM why you didn't follow up by reading the sequels? Oh can I also suggest the Earthborn series, bit strange but excellent, and the Tales of Alvin which is exceptionally clever and brilliantly written in terms of characterisation. Seriously NOM, Card's characterisation is a level above even yours, may be worth checking them out if you haven't already ;)

[cgw]

Some people say Speaker for the Dead is better than Enders Game. I would not say that though Speaker is good. Speaker and the rest of the series (next 2 books) are different than Enders Game.

[Ladijen]

I read Ender's Game a very long time ago and, like Nom, I haven't read any of the sequels. Because the first was so excellent, and because I already had my own ideas about what happened afterward (I didn't know that there would be sequels), I never had any desire to read the later books. Maybe I will someday, but I almost feel like reading the sequels will in some way ruin the first one for me. Has anyone else ever felt like this? The only other time I can recall was when the sequel to Gone With the Wind came out--a book I will never read.

And Kater, I agree about Card's other series...I'm reading The Call of Earth right now. Do you have any info on when he might be publishing the next Alvin Maker book?

[James Barclay]

Well, Kater, Ladijen has almost answered for me. Actually, when I read Ender's Game, I didn't know there were any others as the book was handed to me by a friend as a 'must read now' and so I did.

I probably will look at others in the series sometime but I'm trying to get through a huge stack of novels and most of them are by authors I haven't even tried yet.

I guess Card, with his admittedly excellent style and characterisation will have to wait...

[athenix]

I've read Ender's Game, and loved it. My boyfriend and I have the entire series, and while he's read them all, I have yet to. I'm in the process of moving into a permanent home (completion date? hopefully Oct. 1), so I have maybe 15 books on me, but once I reach that date, I'm having all of my belongings shipped to me, and hopefully can complete the entire series. I do, however, have Speaker for the Dead on me now, so I'm planning to read that once I finish Bedlam's Bard (Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon). My boyfriend claims that it's even better than Ender's Game, so I shall see.

Speaking of Ender's Game, there's a fantastic short story by Michael Swanwick, "Under's Game" in David Hartwell's Year's Best SF 7 anthology, parodying it. I highly recommend reading it.