This isn't the kind of thing wikipedia is typically good at but that's the source for my factoid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game#Creation_and_inspi

This isn't the kind of thing wikipedia is typically good at but that's the source for my factoid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game#Creation_and_inspiration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game#Creation_and_insp... > Ender's Game was written specifically to establish the character of Ender for his role of the Speaker in Speaker for the Dead, the outline for which he had written before novelizing Ender's Game.