Talk:Shadow of the Giant

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Possible Information on 'Shadow of the Giant' that can be harvested. -- kanzure

Untitled

I deleted the "speculation" section since it really didn't seem releveant anymore. I'm pointing this out here in case anyone feels differently and wants to argue the point.

Mutually exclusive Jane?

Are the two scenarios presented really mutually exclusive? There has to be someway that they can be resolved and put together in a cohesive fashion by Card. I don't want to engage in speculation, but I also don't want to say that it isn't possible that both are somehow valid parts of the full explanation. I move we delete the "mutually exclusive" point and instead suggest that the two may have some unresolved conflicts. -- Scm83x 14:55, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I changed the article to reflect the fact that possibly there is an explanation. I simply tried using broader language, such as suggests and unresolved, instead of mutually exclusive, which is a hard and fast statement. -- Scm83x 10:19, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

End of FPE?

"According to Xenocide the Free People of Earth collapsed..."

Xenocide implies that Starways Congress united humanity for the second time. It was my understanding that the only reason that humanity was disunited was becasue the original colonies (the hundred worlds) each had their own governments. It is very possible that EarthGov/FPE continued to rule a united planet for three thousand years.

Egg

At least one of Bean and Petra's eggs were implanted by Volescu into other people, and the eggs are believed by said people to be Achilles', not Bean's.

How can one egg be implanted into "other people" (note plural). And who sad they are Achilles' eggs; I don't remember reading this. --Shadow Puppet 21:52, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It seems fixed now. Dchudz 01:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)David[reply]

Controversy

The criticism is nothing more than someone's POV rant against OSC about how he hates Muslims. I'm deleting it. --PresN 21:38, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Its sources seem to be legit and it brings questions, not slander against OSC; the wording needs to be changed to make it more neutral because obviously it has a slant but deleting it would probably not be the best solution.

But, Card does slander the Islamic Faith and the Muslim people very strongly. I read about 124 pages of the novel, and became fed up with this slant. Any reader who wishes to learn about the novel should also be told of the bias put into it by the author. Did you not notice the reference to an America with closed borders? Card overstepped his boundaries, and infused far too much present day politics into the novel.

Someone who doesn't bother to actually finish the novel should be trusted to write wikipedia articles about it. At the very least, Any reader who wishes to learn about the novel should be warned if the "reviewer" hasn't bothered to finish reading the novel. Card's book contains various points of view on Islam, and depicts a struggle among Muslims about the meaning of Islam. Since this struggle has been ongoing since 1 generation after the death of The Prophet until the present day, it is not unreasonable nor insulting to project that divisions will continue to exist among Muslims! Card depicts Alai, Islam's first future Califf, as an absolutely good and moral Muslim character. This is the same boy who wispered Peace into Ender's ear, now grown up, and Card casts absolutely no aspersion on Alai's character or Alai's faith.

This and the Political and Religious Undertones section were each completely unreferenced, POV, and original research, and have been removed. If you add information, please cite your sources (Wikipedia:Citing sources), present it in a neutral fashion (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view), and avoid inserting your own interpretations (Wikipedia:No original research). --Lethargy 02:38, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Graff's Offer

There's nothing in the page about the offer by Graff and Mazer for Ender's jeesh to leave the planet and take control of a ColMin ship. Seeing as this is the eventual fate for many of them (Dink, Vlad, Fly, Virlomi, Alai, and Han Tzu are all confirmed/implied to take Graff's offer by the end), there should be something written.--69.198.54.241 (talk) 16:03, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]