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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9736407" data-attributes="member: 54629">One point of difference is that the full HP series got translated into movies, which then had a spin-off prequel series and computer games and so on.The Ender's Game series got one movie, which wasn't all that well-received, and its sequels are pretty much unfilmable,* so there wasn't really any way for it to get bigger.*Speaker for the Dead maybe, but it's hugely tonally different to its predecessor. Xenocide is too esoteric and racist. Children of the Mind veers away from sci-fi into "speculative" fiction that's far too out there for a mainstream movie. I'm not sure anyone would want to rewatch Ender's Game but with Bean as the main character, which is what Ender's Shadow is. Part of the issue of the series is that it embraces time dilation and relativity, so the second book involves Ender and his siblings as adults. It also draws heavily on Card's experience as a Mormon missionary in Brazil or wherever. The third book involves a planet populated by people descended from Japanese colonists. It is stated that Japanese people have a genetic predisposition toward OCD behavior. The colonists were deliberately bred to increase this trait to the point that their OCD transformed into religious-like rituals that they can't cope without. I remember finding it pretty offensive when the book first came out.</blockquote>