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Originally Posted by nuraman00  I have read "Ender's Game", "Ender's Shadow", "Speaker For The Dead", "Shadow Of The Hegemon", and "Shadow Puppets". |
Your confusion is a good reason a person should read books in a series in the order in which they were written.
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When I was reading Shadow Puppets, there were 2 different spots in the book, where Theresa Wiggin told Peter "You're Locke. And you're Demosthenes."
Yet, I thought Valentine was Demosthenes.
Did Theresa mean that because Peter was controlling Valentine, and making her write as Demosthenes, that he was really the one who was writing as Demosthenes? So, Theresa wasn't speaking literally, right? She was saying that he was 2 different people, to bolster Peter's confidence, and show him he still had influence, right?
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Exactly, if you remember in Ender's Game there was only one time Peter did not edit Valentine's editorial and that was when she was boiling with rage.
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Xenocide also seems to take place about 3000++ years after Shadow Puppets. I know this book was written before Shadow Puppets, but during all this time, the world still didn't know that Peter was originally behind Demosthenes? And the world still believed that Demosthenes existed?
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Unlikely, but just barely possible with a closely guarded secret. To believe this we have posit a world celebrety secrets cannot be turned into a revenue stream, and where shame is a part of the society. For a modern American this might be a greater leap of faith than FTL transportation.