What Books Would You Recomend For a Lover Of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow (Sci-fi and Fantasy Prefferred

Question

I loved the two books so much, I want to know what other members who have fell in love with these books also like.

I have lookd for many books but none have matched the Quality of these two.

Recommednations of Sci-fi or Fantasy books/series' would be gretly appreciated..

thenks!!!

I have the rest of the shadow and ender series, still need to read it,

would love a few more suggestions,

will try out eddings, king, brooks, and other suggested for sure.

Answer 1

I'm no expert on sci-fi, only recently getting into it. But I do love the old-classics like "1984", "Fahrenheit 451", very good. "Brave New World" is decent. But the newest book I liked was "Bar code Tattoo." You may also want to check barnesandnoble.com, you can read reviews, get more recommendations and read summaries, very useful.

Answer 2

You may already be familiar with these--but there are many sequels to those books. Ender's Game has Speaker For The Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Ender's Shadow has Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant. If you have read those sequels...you might be interested in some of Orson Scott Card's other works. The Worthing Saga is intriguing and enjoyable in my opinion. The other "space" series by OSC is not as good in my opinion...it starts with The Memory of Earth...I want to say the series is called Homecoming Earth...but I'm not 100% sure on that. I would recommend sticking with Orson Scott Card until you've exhausted those resources--I did and have enjoyed almost everything he's written.

The only other sci-fi books I've enjoyed anywhere close to Ender's Game are some of the Star Wars novels...the newer ones...I believe they're called the New Jedi order. The writing is great for the most part--there are many different writers in the series--and they're very exciting.

I've seen Dune (the newer version) and enjoyed it, but I haven't read the books...so I don't know if they'd be worth recommending or not. I've read mixed reviews on those.

Answer 3

First off, you did finish btoh series ending with Children of the Mind (Ender's Game) and Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow), right?

Sci-fi's great, but after reading through both series, you should have a more open view on literature, history, and the world. Shadow develops into a world war scenario (without nukes) and Game develops into an ethics on colonization and consciousness conflict.

Try 1632 by Eric Flint and the American Empire Series by Harry Turtledove. 1632 is about how a West-Virginian Town gets teleported into 17th century Germany during Cardinal Richelieu's reign and the 30 Year's War. The series still isn't finished (1634: The Ram's Rebellion cam out in April) and has an interactive community website.

American Empire is alternate history continuing from the original Guns of the South by Turtledove in which the Confederacy wins the Civil War. AE takes place following WW1 (Turtledove wrote the corresponding series for WW1 as well) where the USA, allied with the Central Powers, defeated Canada, the Confederacy, Japan, and Britain. Here there are about 20 simultaneous storylines and 40 different characters to watch after, but the intense action never gets confusing since Turtledove clearly distinguishes and never overextends specific scenes.

Turtledove is now finishing the Alternate WW2 series for AE and has written another WW2 alternate series in which aliens arrive in 1942 and Eisenhower, Togo, Stalin, Hitler, and Churchill all have to unify humanity against the invaders (this series also has a sequel series taking place in modern day called Second Contact when the aliens return).

Hope this helps!!

Answer 4

I'm not familiar with either of these, but have you ever tried David Eddings? He's got a couple of great fantasy series.
Also, try Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon, I know he's horror, but this one is definately in the Fantasy genre.
And don't forget Tolkein's LOTR, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.
You could also try Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty series - it's along the lines of "what happened once she was rescued" (it is fantasy, but also very adult content oriented)

Answer 5

Harry Potter, King Fortis the Brave, Chronicles of Narnia and Eragon are all great! If you loved the Enders books (and who doesn't?) I'm sure you'll love these.

Answer 6

Not familiar with those titles but there are tons of good authors that write in those genres. I would reccomend these (mostly classic) SF authors, Lois McMaster-Bujold, Piers Anthony, Robert Heinlein, Robert Anton Wilson, Issac Asimov, Ursala K. Le Guin.

Answer 7

Terry brooks, sword of shanara series is good , as is terry goodkinds series that starts with the book, wizards first rule.