So... Ender's Game *OT* (Off-Topic)

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Tuesday, November 05, 2013, 16:19 (3825 days ago) @ cheapLEY

I've read somewhere (hell, maybe even in the author's note in Speaker; I can't recall), that Speaker for the Dead was the novel Orson Scott Card really set out to write from the get go. But he though it needed more setup for who Andrew was before he jumped right into the Speaker story, so he wrote Ender's game. I can't recall exactly how the Ender's Game short story versus the novel come into it, but he had the idea for Speaker for the Dead first.

Pretty close, he actually didn't have Ender in mind when he was trying to write Speaker for the Dead, and he had already written the short story quite awhile before. So while he was writing the novel for Ender's Game he realized Ender IS the Speaker for the Dead. And yeah it's in one of the intros or notes from one of the books, if I remember I'll check which one when I get home.