The sequels...vary, a lot. IMHO Speaker for the Dead is brilliant on its own terms. It isn't more Ender's Game and it doesn't try to be. It's what happens after. I can't say more without spoiling it, but I'd love to discuss it with you after you've read it.
Xenocide was a goodish book but not up to the weight class of Ender's Game by any means. Children of the Mind... not so much even goodish, IMHO. Kinda lame, actually, I thought.
Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon revisit the childhood timeline from other POVs. They are better than CotM, good books and well constructed, but not up there with the first two, which had some archetypal resonance and grandeur of scale that telling the stories around them doesn't approach. But then he's not really trying to do that again, he's done it already. It's not unlike if Shakespeare had writen first Hamlet and then, a few years later, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
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Xenocide was a goodish book but not up to the weight class of Ender's Game by any means. Children of the Mind... not so much even goodish, IMHO. Kinda lame, actually, I thought.
Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon revisit the childhood timeline from other POVs. They are better than CotM, good books and well constructed, but not up there with the first two, which had some archetypal resonance and grandeur of scale that telling the stories around them doesn't approach. But then he's not really trying to do that again, he's done it already. It's not unlike if Shakespeare had writen first Hamlet and then, a few years later, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
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