Monday, March 25, 2013

Serpent World and Enderverse

          There are a few similarities between the Enderverse series and the Serpent World series that Orson Scott Card writes. They take place in a future where we inhabit more than one planet where aliens inhabit one of the worlds too.
          The main similarity is that they both take place in the far away future where space travel is done at the near speed of light.  Due to this one can live over 4,000 years if they travel from planet to planet spending only a month or 2 on each one in enderverse which has 100 different planets but in the serpent world series it would take 50 light years to get from Garden (which is the only other habitable planet) to Earth.
          One of the other similarities are that we inhabit more than 1 planet due to the earth’s rapidly growing population to the point that earth doesn't have any more room to be populated.  Then in Enderverse when the people on the new planet were settled it gave them a longer range of planets to branch out on and capture for mankind.  On Garden though the people were not allowed to make advanced weaponry because the main people of earth didn't want the same mistakes they made to happen there with wars.
          A further similarity in Enderverse, there are two alien species called buggers and the other one are called “Piggies” or Pequenos and one half alive alien species called descolada which is a semi- intelligent species.  In the Serpent World series there are two one of them being mice with human brains compacted into a small head.  The other one being face masks which attach themselves to the face of their host if the host isn't strong enough willed will take control over the host but if the host’s will is strong enough then the face mask is controlled by you and heightens your sense of sight, hearing, and smell.
          Most books by the same author generally tend to have the same genre but to me in the end it all comes down to what the author is best at writing and for Orson Scott Card that just happens to be futuristic, sci-fi, and action.

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