- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Hey, I'm new here
I don't know if this subject has been brought up before, but a few weeks ago I finished reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It really was a great book, but I couldn't help but feeling that there was striking similarity between the story told in EG and Halo. I mean you have this kid who is trained from the age of 6 to a be a great soldier and possibly the greatest general the world has ever seen. They are fighting a against an alien species, that has attacked some of Earth's outer colonies and is supposedly going to move in for the kill. But what got me the most was the way that the aliens were discovered. According to the book contact was lost with a planet on the outer fringes of Earth's colonization area, and then a ship was sent to investigate. This ship is captured and destroyed ofcourse, but the way the covenant are discovered is very similiar to this.
Could the Bungie writers have borrowed some ideas from the Ender's Game? Or is it just a coincidence? Ofcourse there isn't the deep religious, and mysterious backstory found in Halo, in the Ender's Game, but there seems to be alot in common between the two.
Anyways I would recommend the book if you want some good Sci-fi action.