Alors qu'il vient de sortir "Ender in Exile", Orson Scott Card revient sur ce roman lors d'une interview disponible ici.

voilà ce qu'il en dit :
"'Q: Tell me about Ender in Exile. Why did you return to this story?

A: I keep thinking I'm done. Ender's Game ends with a dreamy kind of summary of Ender's life after the war. It was interesting stuff, but I hadn't really developed it, and I realized there was a story there about soldiers who can't come home. The soldiers that we send off to war right now -- the ones who live, come home. But in ancient times you could end up spending your life in a place that is so far from home. So with Ender himself being an exile, unable to come home, as was established in the novel, I thought there was a story there that really mattered.

Q: Do you ever worry you'll contradict yourself with such a growing library of Ender stories?

A: I don't reread my own work. I had not even given Ender's Game a close reading when I was writing the screenplay. I'm really dealing with things that were said in all the books. There were things that were dropped in, comments that were made in later books that all have to be taken into account. But I have the best group of pre-editors in the world, which is my online community. What I do is post the question that I have, and they answer. They're happy, because they love the story and they want to see it work right."

Toute l'interview