When he turned “Ender’s Game” into a novel (from his original short story), he decided to connect the two. Card actually had an idea for a book that he titled Speaker for the Dead. Well, let’s start with the least fun answer: setting up the sequel. Which is totally how all novels should end – just have a character in the last few pages invent a new religion. Awesome, right?Įnding #4: Finally, Ender invents a new religion. He talks to it and learns all about the buggers, and then he hatches (sorry for the pun) a plan to live with them in peace after he resurrects them from the brink of extinction. That seems like an interesting ending: Ender getting to reconnect and start over with his family (well, with the good parts of his family, at least).Įnding #3: After that we have Ender discovering the bugger queen pupa, which is pretty cool. He’s a governor there and he lives with his sister. Once you throw in all the stuff about what’s going on down on Earth, what with the war between someone and someone else (does it really matter?) – that could be a very satisfying ending in and of itself.Įnding #2: Next, Card throws in a bunch of stuff about Ender leaving Earth for one of the colony planets. Let’s try to figure out what those endings are here.Įnding #1: We have the end of Chapter 14, when we learn that Ender has been fighting a real war against the aliens. By the time they’re done, they have several moments where you thought “this is the ending”? This book is kind of like that. That is a very good question: what is up with this ending? Or, should we say: what’s up with all the different endings? You ever notice how some recent films seem to wrap things up…and then go on and wrap things up again.
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