Questions About Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)

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Compare Ender's Game to the rest of the series? Which of them is the best? I love Ender's Game, but I'm not sure if the rest of the series is age appropriate for me, I'm kind of afraid that it will be dull, not fast paced as YA books.

Charles Cherry Compared to the rest of the series, Ender's Game seems very simplistic. Don't get me wrong - I loved it - but the rest of the Ender series, and the Sh…moreCompared to the rest of the series, Ender's Game seems very simplistic. Don't get me wrong - I loved it - but the rest of the Ender series, and the Shadow series, are all light-years ahead of Ender's Game when it comes to writing, plot, characters, emotion, and everything that makes a great book and a great series. In fact, they just seem to get better as you go along!

By the way, I've enjoyed these novels as audio books - the production quality, narration, and so forth, are the best I've ever heard, and I listen to a LOT of audible books. The author himself says his books are best experienced by listening to them, and I agree!(less)

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Does the book ne?ed to be read in the series consecutively

Jack Vasen Absolutely, but Ender in Exile is a wild card.
I call the middle three (Speaker, Exoncide, Children) the Lusitania trilogy and it's hard to make sense…moreAbsolutely, but Ender in Exile is a wild card.
I call the middle three (Speaker, Exoncide, Children) the Lusitania trilogy and it's hard to make sense of them without reading in order. It wouldn't be too hard to read these three without Ender's Game, but I consider EG to be the gem of all the Enderverse.
Ender in Exile takes place after EG and before these three. It is really the 2nd book written 20 years or so later. It could easily be read with EG leaving these three out.
These three books are completely different than EG and somewhat different than Exile. These three spend a lot of time on what I call philosophizing. A lot.(less)

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Did Ender ever write a book for Jane, the same way he did for fomics, Piggies and Peter? I remember Jane asking him to do so in SOTD, but that never came up again.

Jack Vasen There is nothing that says he wrote a book for Jane. Because of how the story unfolds, it would seem unlikely.

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Do the descoladores show up in any of the follow up books?

Aaron "Shadows Alive" is expected to be the title of the book that is supposed to tie the Ender series and the Shadow series together and the descaladores a…more"Shadows Alive" is expected to be the title of the book that is supposed to tie the Ender series and the Shadow series together and the descaladores are supposed to play a major role in that book.(less)

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