He has said Orson Scott Card is his favorite author.
He called Card’s ability to retell Ender’s Game story through the eyes of a second character,Bean, in Ender’s Shadow truly masterful. He did it in new interesting ways that simply did not regurgitate the first novel.
Sadly, I can not agree. The only appreciable difference I could find in "Zoe's Tale" was a new slate of one-liners.
I have never read that who you speak of. I am behind on my SciFi reading about 30-40 years, though at one time that is all I read.
I did see Enders game. Probably the worst tripe of seen in a few years.