Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> I wrote:
> > >
> > > 1976: The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
>
> Andrew Crystall replied
> >Cam we vote for books but NOT the sequels?
> >(IMHO, Forever Peace is mediochre and Forever Free is rubbish..)
>
> How about this. If you are voting for an entire series, state that when you
> vote. If you are voting only for a specific book in a series, state *that*
> when you vote. If there is enough of a difference to swing voting one way
> or another, we'll figure out how to add them all up then... :-)
>
> > > 1986: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
> >
> >So we count the Ender series and Ender's Shadow series as one
> >series or two?
Two, but breaking them up thusly:
I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon
II: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind
I think.
>From what I understand (and some of you probably know better than I), he
didn't originally intend for it to be Ender be Speaker for the Dead when
he first conceived it. The three I list under II form a more natural
trilogy.
Anyway, that's just an opinion, and not a totally informed one, either,
as I haven't read quite all of them. Feel free to shoot down my
opinion, but don't try to flame today, as it's rather humid here right
now and I'll only get mildly singed, and it'll make my hair even more
interesting (which is the last thing I need at this point, aside from
Sam getting his fingers all tangled up in it).
Julia
