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Ender's Game
Cover shows a futuristic aeroplane landing on a lighted runway.
1985 first edition (hardcover)
 
Author
Orson Scott Card
Cover artist
John Harris
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
1985
Media type
Print (Hardcover , Paperback & Ebook)
Pages
384
ISBN
0-312-93208-1
OCLC Number
22909973
Followed by
Speaker for the Dead
Ender's Game (1985) is a military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperilled mankind after two conflicts with the "Buggers", an insectoid alien species. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are trained at a very young age through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed.
The book originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.[1] Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the Ender's Game series. Card released an updated version of Ender's Game in 1991, changing some political facts to accurately reflect the times; most notably, to include the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Reception of the book has generally been positive, though some critics have denounced Card's perceived justification of his characters' violences.[2][3] It has also become suggested reading for many military organizations, including the United States Marine Corps.[4] Ender's Game won the 1985 Nebula Award for best novel[5] and the 1986 Hugo Award for best novel.[6] Its sequels, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind and Ender in Exile, follow Ender's subsequent travels to many different worlds in the galaxy. In addition, the later novella A War of Gifts and novel Ender's Shadow take place during the same time period as the original. Ender's Game has been adapted into two comic series.
A film adaptation of the same name directed by Gavin Hood and starring Asa Butterfield as Ender is planned for release on November 1, 2013. Card is co-producing the film.[7]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Creation and inspiration
2 Synopsis 2.1 Command School
3 Critical response
4 Revisions
5 Adaptations 5.1 Film
5.2 Video game
5.3 Comics
6 Translations
7 See also
8 Notes
9 External links
Creation and inspiration[edit]
The original novelette "Ender's Game" provides a small snapshot of Ender's experiences in Battle School and Command School; the full-length novel encompasses more of Ender's life before, during, and after the war, and also contains some chapters describing the political exploits of his older siblings back on Earth. In a commentary track for the 20th Anniversary audiobook edition of the novel, as well as in the 1991 Author's Definitive Edition, Card stated that 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.[8] In his 1991 introduction to the novel, Card discussed the influence of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series on the novelette and novel. Historian Bruce Catton's work on the American Civil War also influenced Card heavily.[8]
Synopsis[edit]

Ender's Game series

Chronology
Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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Humanity, having begun to explore the solar system and master interplanetary spaceflight, has encountered an alien race known as the "buggers" (known in later books as the 'Formics'), scouting the system and establishing a forward base in the asteroid Eros, who provoked two drawn-out wars. Despite political conflict on Earth between three ruling parties (the Hegemon, Polemarch, and Strategos), a peace was established and an International Fleet (IF) formed against the Buggers. In preparation for the Buggers' return (dubbed the "third invasion") the IF created the Battle School, a program designed to subject children of the best tactical minds to rigorous training.
Protagonist Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is one of the school's trainees; but despite this, is teased as a "third" under Earth's two-child policy. He has a close bond with his sister Valentine, but fears his brother Peter, a highly intelligent sociopath. After the IF removes Ender's monitoring device, presumably ending his chances of Command School, he fights a fellow student, Stilson. Though the weaker of the two, Ender fatally wounds Stilson, but is left unaware of so doing. When explaining his actions to IF Colonel Hyrum Graff, Ender states his belief that, by showing superiority now, he has prevented future struggle. Graff, on hearing of this, offers Ender a place in the Battle School, situated in Earth's orbit, where Graff quickly isolates Ender from the other cadets, but encourages him to continue training despite frustration, through communications from Valentine.
The cadets participate in competitive war simulations in zero gravity, wherein Ender's innovations disrupt the standard operations, often sacrificing other squad members to achieve victory. Graff promotes Ender to a new army composed of the newest and youngest cadets, which Ender leads to the top of the school. There, Ender fights Bonzo Madrid, a jealous commander of another army, outside the simulation, and unknowingly kills him. Under Ender's leadership, several of his current and former squad members form 'Ender's Jeesh' that remain loyal to him.
On Earth, Peter Wiggin has used a global communication system to post political essays under the pseudonym "Locke", hoping to establish himself as a respected orator and thence as a powerful politician. Valentine, despite not trusting Peter, publishes works alongside his as "Demosthenes". Their essays are soon taken seriously by the government. Though Graff is told their true identities, he recommends that it be kept a secret, because their writings are politically useful.
Command School[edit]
Ender, now ten years old, is soon promoted to Command School (on asteroid 433 Eros), skipping several years of schooling. There, he is put directly under a former war hero, Mazer Rackham. Alongside other trainings, Mazer sets virtual IF fleets under Ender's control against Bugger fleets controlled by Mazer. Ender adapts to the game and, as the simulations become harder, receives members of his Jeesh as sub-commanders. Despite this, Ender becomes depressed by the simulations, by his isolation from others, and by his treatment by Mazer.
When told by Mazer that this is his final test, Ender finds his human fleet far-outnumbered by the Buggers and sacrifices most of his fighters to launch a Molecular Disruption Device at the planet, aware that this earns his expulsion from the school. The Device destroys both the planet and the entire Bugger fleet. As the simulation ends, Ender is surprised to find the IF commanders celebrating. Mazer returns, and informs Ender that this - and earlier skirmishes in the simulator - were not simulation, but the actual IF contingent and the Buggers' main fleet at their homeworld, by whose destruction Ender has terminated the war. Ender becomes more depressed on learning this and of the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo.
When he recovers, he finds himself still in orbit with his closest friends and learns that, at the end of the Buggers war, Earth's powers fought among themselves. He stays on Eros as his friends return home and colonists venture to other worlds, using Eros as a way station. Among the first colonists is his sister, Valentine, who apologizes that Ender can never return to Earth, where he would become dangerous as used by the various leaders, including Peter. Instead, Ender joins a colony program to populate one of the Buggers' former colony worlds. There, he discovers the dormant egg of a Bugger queen. The queen, through telepathy, explains that the Buggers had initially assumed humans were a non-sentient race, for want of Collective consciousness, but realized their mistake too late, and requests that Ender take the egg to a new planet to colonize.
Ender takes the egg and, with information from the Queen, writes The Hive Queen under the alias "Speaker for the Dead". Peter, now the Hegemon of Earth, recognizes Ender's work and requests Ender to write a book about Peter, which Ender entitles Hegemon. The combined works create a new religion that Earth and many of Earth's colonies adopt. In the end, Ender and Valentine board a starship and visit many worlds, looking to establish the unborn Hive Queen.
Critical response[edit]
Critics have generally received Ender's Game well. The novel won the Nebula Award for best novel in 1985,[9] and the Hugo Award for best novel in 1986,[10] considered the two most prestigious awards in science fiction.[11][12] Ender's Game was also nominated for a Locus Award in 1986.[6] In 1999, it placed #59 on the reader's list of Modern Library 100 Best Novels. It was also honored with a spot on American Library Association's "100 Best Books for Teens." In 2008, the novel, along with Ender's Shadow, won the Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors an author and specific works by that author for lifetime contribution to young adult literature.[13] Ender's Game was included in Damien Broderick's book Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010.[14]
New York Times writer Gerald Jonas asserts that the novel's plot summary resembles a "grade Z, made-for-television, science-fiction rip-off movie", but says that Card develops the elements well despite this "unpromising material". Jonas further praises the development of the character Ender Wiggin: "Alternately likable and insufferable, he is a convincing little Napoleon in short pants."[15]
The novel has received negative criticism for violence and its justification. Elaine Radford's review, "Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman", posits that Ender Wiggin is an intentional reference by Card to Adolf Hitler and criticizes the violence in the novel, particularly at the hands of the protagonist.[2] Card responded to Radford's criticisms in Fantasy Review, the same publication. Radford's criticisms are echoed in John Kessel's essay "Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality", wherein Kessel states: "Ender gets to strike out at his enemies and still remain morally clean. Nothing is his fault."[3]
The U.S. Marine Corps Professional Reading List makes the novel recommended reading at several lower ranks, and again at Officer Candidate/Midshipman.[16] The book was placed on the reading list by Captain John F. Schmitt, author of FMFM-1 (Fleet Marine Fighting Manual, on maneuver doctrine) for "provid[ing] useful allegories to explain why militaries do what they do in a particularly effective shorthand way."[17] In introducing the novel for use in leadership training, Marine Corps University's Lejeune program opines that it offers "lessons in training methodology, leadership, and ethics as well [....] Ender’s Game has been a stalwart item on the Marine Corps Reading List since its inception."[17]
Revisions[edit]
In 1991, Card made several minor changes to reflect the political climates of the time, including the decline of the Soviet Union. In the afterword of Ender in Exile, Card stated that many of the details in chapter 15 of Ender's Game were modified for use in the subsequent novels and short stories. In order to more closely match the other material, Card has rewritten chapter 15, and plans to offer a revised edition of the book.[18]
Adaptations[edit]
Film[edit]
Main article: Ender's Game (film)

Ender's Game is an "unfilmable" book, not because of too much violence but because everything takes place in Ender's head.
— Orson Scott Card[19][20]
In 2011, Summit Entertainment financed and is coordinating the film's development and will also serve as its distributor.[21][22] Gavin Hood is directing.[23][24] Filming began in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 27, 2012,[25] and is set to be released on November 1, 2013 (USA).[26] A movie preview trailer[27] was released in May 2013 and a second trailer[28] was released later that year.
Video game[edit]
Ender's Game: Battle Room was a planned digitally distributed video game for all viable downloadable platforms.[29] It was under development by Chair Entertainment, which also developed the Xbox Live Arcade games Undertow and Shadow Complex. Chair had sold the licensing of Empire to Card, which became a best-selling novel. Little was revealed about the game, save its setting in the Ender universe and that it would have focused on the Battle Room.[29]
In December, 2010, it was announced that the video game development had stopped and the project put on indefinite hold.[30]
Comics[edit]
Main article: Ender's Game (comics)
Marvel Comics and Orson Scott Card announced on April 19, 2008, that they would be publishing a limited series adaptation of Ender's Game as the first in a comic series that would adapt all of Card's Ender's Game novels. Card was quoted as saying that it is the first step in moving the story to a visual medium.[31] The first five-issue series, titled Ender's Game: Battle School, was written by Christopher Yost, while the second five-issue series, Ender’s Shadow: Battle School, was written by Mike Carey.[32]
Translations[edit]
Ender's Game has been translated into 33 languages:
Albanian: Lojra e Enderit ("Ender's Game").
Bulgarian: Играта на Ендър ("Ender's Game").
Chinese: 安德的游戏 (Āndé de yóuxì) ("Ender's Game"), 2003.
Croatian: Enderova igra ("Ender's Game"), 2007.
Czech: Enderova hra ("Ender's Game"), 1994.
Danish: Ender's strategi ("Ender's Strategy"), 1990.
Dutch: Ender Wint ("Ender Wins"), De Tactiek van Ender ("Ender's Tactic").
Estonian: Enderi mäng ("Ender's Game"), 2000.
Finnish: Ender ("Ender"), 1990.
French: La Stratégie Ender ("The Ender Strategy"), 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Galician: O xogo de Ender (Ender's Game), 2011
German: Das große Spiel ("The Great Game"), 1986, 2005.
Greek: Το παιχνίδι του Έντερ (To paichnídi tou Enter) ("Ender's Game"), 1996.
Hebrew: המשחק של אנדר‎ (Ha-Misḥaq šel Ender) ("Ender's Game"), 1994.
Hungarian: Végjáték ("Endgame"), 1991.
Italian: Il gioco di Ender ("Ender's Game").
Japanese: エンダーのゲーム (Endā no Gēmu) ("Ender's Game"), 1987.
Korean: 엔더의 게임 (Endaŭi Geim) ("Ender's Game"), 1992, 2000 (two editions).
Latvian: Endera spēle ("Ender's Game"), 2008.
Lithuanian: Enderio Žaidimas ("Ender's Game"), 2007
Norwegian: Enders spill|("Ender's Game"), 1999.
Persian: بازی اندر‎ ("Bazi_ē_Ender"), 2011
Polish: Gra Endera ("Ender's Game"), 1994.
Portuguese: O jogo do exterminador ("The Game of the Exterminator") (Brazil).
Portuguese: O jogo final ("The Final Game") (Portugal).
Romanian: Jocul lui Ender ("Ender's Game").
Russian: Игра Эндера (Igra Endera) ("Ender's Game"), 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003 (two editions).
Slovene: Enderjeva igra ("Ender's Game"), 2010.
Serbian: Eндерова игра (Enderova igra) ("Ender's Game"), 1988.
Spanish: El juego de Ender ("Ender's Game").
Swedish: Enders spel ("Ender's Game"), 1991, 1998.
Thai: เกมพลิกโลก ("The Game that Changed the World"), 2007.
Turkish: Ender'in Oyunu ("Ender's Game").
See also[edit]
List of Ender's Game characters
List of Ender's Game series planets
Formics
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Short Stories by Orson Scott Card". Hatrack River Enterprises Inc. 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Radford, Elaine (2007-03-26). "Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman (20 Years Later)". Elaine Radford. Retrieved 2011-01-28.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Kessel, John (2004). "Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality". Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 2011-01-28.
4.Jump up ^ "Marine Corps Professional Reading List". Official U.S. Marine Corps Web Site. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
5.Jump up ^ "1985 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
6.^ Jump up to: a b "1986 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
7.Jump up ^ Sneider, Jeff (29 November 2011). "Asa Butterfield locks 'Ender's Game'". Variety.
8.^ Jump up to: a b Card, Orson Scott (1991). "Introduction". Ender's Game (Author's definitive ed.). New York: Tor Books. ISBN 0-8125-5070-6.
9.Jump up ^ Mann, Laurie (22 November 2008). "SFWA Nebula Awards". dpsinfo.com. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
10.Jump up ^ "The Hugo Awards By Year". World Science Fiction Society. 9 December 2005. Archived from the original on July 31, 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
11.Jump up ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Hugo Awards". Locus Publications. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
12.Jump up ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Nebula Awards". Locus Publications. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
13.Jump up ^ [1][dead link]
14.Jump up ^ "Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 — Nonstop Press". Nonstop-press.com. 2012-05-05. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
15.Jump up ^ Jonas, Gerald (1985-06-16). "SCIENCE FICTION". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
16.Jump up ^ "USMC Professional Reading Program (brochure)" (PDF). Reading List by Grade. Marine Corps University. 2009-09-25. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
17.^ Jump up to: a b "Ender's Game Discussion Guide" (PDF). USMC Professional Reading Program. Marine Corps University. 2009-09-25. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
18.Jump up ^ "Ender in Exile". Audio edition, Macmillan Audio, Nov 2008
19.Jump up ^ by Cassandra (2013-04-22). "Full Interview with Card and Johnston from the 2013 LA Times Festival of Books | Ender's Ansible". Endersansible.com. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
20.Jump up ^ "Orson Scott Card Talks About 'Ender's Game' Book And Movie". Neon Tommy. 2013-04-20. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
21.Jump up ^ Gallagher, Brian. "Ender's Game Lands at Summit Entertainment". MovieWeb.
22.Jump up ^ McNary, Dave (Apr. 28, 2011). "Summit plays 'Ender's Game'". Variety.
23.Jump up ^ "Gavin Hood Attached to Ender's Game". "comingsoon.net". September 21, 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
24.Jump up ^ Zeitchik, Steven (September 20, 2010). "Gavin Hood looks to play 'Ender's Game'". Los Angeles Times.
25.Jump up ^ Christine (2012-03-01). "‘Ender’s Game’ begins filming at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans". Onlocationvacations.com. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
26.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game Trailer, News, Videos, and Reviews". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
27.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game Trailer". Summit Entertainment. Retrieved 2013-05-14.
28.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game Trailer 2". Summit Entertainment. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
29.^ Jump up to: a b Croal, N'Gai (January 29, 2008). "Exclusive: Chair Entertainment's Donald and Geremy Mustard Shed Some Light On Their Plans For 'Ender's Game'". Newsweek. Archived from the original on June 3, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
30.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game tabled by Chair". Joystiq. December 14, 2010. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
31.Jump up ^ Penagos, Ryan (May 12, 2008). "NYCC '08: Marvel to Adapt Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game Series". Marvel Characters, Inc. Retrieved 2008-09-13.
32.Jump up ^ "Enders Shadow Battle School #1 (of 5)". Things From Another World, Inc. 1986-2009. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Ender's Game
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About the novel Ender's Game from Card's website
Ender's Game title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Intergalactic Medicine Show: Online science fiction magazine published by Orson Scott Card. Features a new Ender's world story in every issue.

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Speaker for the Dead

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Not to be confused with Speaker of the Dead.

Speaker for the Dead
Speaker dead cover.jpg
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
 
Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
March 1986
Media type
Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pages
415 pp
ISBN
0-312-93738-5
OCLC Number
13201341
Preceded by
Ender's Game
Followed by
Xenocide
Speaker for the Dead (1986) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and an indirect sequel to the novel Ender's Game. This book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in Ender's Game. However, due to relativistic space travel Ender himself (who now goes by his real name Andrew Wiggin or by his title "Speaker for the Dead") is only about 35 years old.
This is the first book to talk about Starways Congress, a high standpoint Legislation for the human colonies. It is also the first to describe the Hundred Worlds, planets which humans colonized which are tightly intertwined by Ansible technology.
Like Ender's Game, the book won the Nebula Award in 1986[1] and the Hugo Award in 1987.[2] Speaker for the Dead was published in a slightly revised edition in 1991. It was followed by Xenocide and Children of the Mind.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot summary 1.1 Lusitania
1.2 Novinha
1.3 Ender/Andrew Wiggin
1.4 The Speaking
2 Meaning of the term "Speaker for the Dead"
3 Relation to Ender's Game
4 The Pequeninos
5 Characters
6 Lack of film adaptation
7 Reception
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Plot summary[edit]

Ender's Game series

Chronology
Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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On Novinha's request for a Speaker, Andrew Wiggin leaves for Lusitania, a colony turned into a virtual prison, with its expansion severely limited and its whole existence devoted to the work of xenologers who study the Pequeninos ("piggies"), the first sentient beings found since the destruction of Formics. Lusitania itself is remarkably lacking in biodiversity, featuring thousands of unfilled ecological niches. The other outstanding feature of Lusitania is the Descolada, a native virus which almost wipes out the colony, until husband-and-wife biologists Gusta and Cida succeed in developing counters. Unfortunately, they didn't find the cure soon enough to save themselves, leaving orphaned daughter Novinha to strike out for herself.[3]
Novinha[edit]
At the age of thirteen, Novinha, a cold and distant girl, successfully petitions to be made the official biologist of the colony (roughly the equivalent of a master's degree); from then on, she contributes to the work of father-and-son xenologers (alien anthropology) Pipo and Libo, and for a short time there is family and camaraderie. One day, however, she makes a discovery about the descolada—that it's in every native lifeform—and Pipo rushes out to talk to the piggies about the discovery without telling her or Libo why it's important. They can't figure it out on their own, and never learn—a few hours later, Pipo is found vivisected in the grass; his corpse does not even have the benefit of a tree (The symbol of honor placed among all dead piggies). Novinha erases all the lab work, but cannot delete the information itself due to regulations; Libo demands to see it, but even their love for each other will not make her let him see it—it appears to be a secret the piggies will kill to keep. Now Novinha is determined to ensure they never marry, the way they always planned to: for if they do, Libo will have access to those locked files and, Novinha fears, will share the same fate as his father. In anguish, Novinha calls for a Speaker for the Dead, hoping beyond hope that perhaps the original Speaker may arrive, to make sense of Pipo's death—and maybe of her life.
Ender/Andrew Wiggin[edit]
Andrew Wiggin doesn't dare let himself be known as Ender anymore; the name is now an Epithet and considered taboo for killing the buggers. Ender decides to leave his sister Valentine behind because she just married and is pregnant. He leaves as soon as possible, with his only companion being Jane, an artificial sentience existing within the ansible computer network by which spaceships and planets communicate instantly across galactic distances. He arrives on Lusitania after twenty-two years in transit (only around two weeks to him) to discover that Novinha has canceled her call, or rather tried to, as a call for a speaker cannot legally be canceled after the speaker has begun the journey. However, two others have called, making Ender's trip not entirely in vain: they are Novinha's eldest son Miro, calling for someone to speak the death of Libo, who was killed the same way his father was; and Novinha's eldest daughter Ela, calling for someone to speak the death of Novinha's husband Marcos Ribeira, who died not six weeks ago from a terminal disease. Besides attempting to unravel the question of why Novinha married Marcão when she really loved Libo (Marcão was sterile, and a quick genetic scan on Jane's part reveals that Novinha's children are all, in fact, Libo's), Ender also takes responsibility for attempting to heal the Ribeira family, and manages to adopt (or perhaps is adopted by) most of the children within their first meeting. He also takes a strong interest in the pequeninos, and eventually (in direct violation of Starways Congress law) meets with them in person. The Hive Queen has also managed to make contact with the pequeninos philotically, and has told them a number of things—including the fact that "Andrew Wiggin" is not only the original Speaker for the Dead, but the original Xenocide as well, which romantically involved Zenadors (a shortened form of the word xenologists) Miro and Ouanda do not believe. The Hive Queen very emphatically wants to be revived and freed on Lusitania. Finally, in an effort to help Ender, Jane deliberately reveals to Starways Congress that Miro and Ouanda, continuing the legacy of Ouanda's dead father Libo, have been deliberately introducing new technology into the piggy lifestyle. Both Zenadors are called away to the nearest world for trial (a journey that would take twenty-two years), the colony's charter is revoked, and all humans are ordered to evacuate posthaste, leaving no sign of ever having been there.
The Speaking[edit]
Ender holds a public speaking for Marcão, Novinha's late husband. However, Ender cannot but help reveal secrets from the lives of Libo, Pipo, and even Novinha herself as their lives were all so delicately bound together by guilt, deception, and love. The Speaker explains how Novinha blames herself for Pipo's death, and underwent a life of suffering and deception—marrying Marcão so that to prevent Libo from accessing the information which killed Pipo, but secretly trysting with Libo—because their love for each other never truly died. The meaning of Pipo's and Libo's murders come out as well: the trees are the "third stage" in the life of the piggies. Trees grown from piggies killed normally become brothertrees, but the ritually dissected ones are done so in order to make them fathertrees—sentient, living trees that are, unlike animal pequeninos, capable of reproduction (the descolada is proved to be instrumental in these transformations). Finally, the Speaker for the Dead is able to work out a treaty with the piggies, so that humans and pequeninos might live in peace. Unfortunately, it is not without cost: Miro, distraught to learn that Ouanda, his girlfriend in secret, is actually his sister, attempts to cross the electric fence, which separates the humans from the piggies and was locked to everyone on Lusitania due to Jane's earlier report, and suffers significant neurological damage. With no other way to save him, the colony declares itself in rebellion, Jane shuts off outside ansible contact, Miro is rescued, and Ender enters the forest to negotiate the aforementioned treaty. He signs it "Ender Wiggin," and for the first time in his life, someone (Novinha) is prepared to receive the Xenocide with compassion instead of revulsion.
Valentine and her family plan to come to Lusitania to help out in the rebellion, aided by Jane; Miro, with his crippled body, is sent into space to meet them; the Hive Queen is released, ready to begin the continuation of her species; and Ender marries Novinha.
Meaning of the term "Speaker for the Dead"[edit]
In this novel's precursor, Ender's Game, the last surviving member of 'the Buggers' contacts the lead character (Ender Wiggin), who had unwittingly wiped out the rest of the species. Ender tells the story of the Buggers as it is related to him, and publishes it as The Hive Queen under the pseudonym "Speaker for the Dead." The audience of The Hive Queen is not aware of the identity of the author (or that the work is factual and not speculative). However, Hegemon Peter Wiggin (Ender's brother) recognized the writing and requested that Ender also act as 'his' "Speaker". Ender complies with the request by writing a second book titled The Hegemon, giving a parallel, but uniquely human, perspective to the ideas and lessons of "The Hive Queen".
The two books become classics and inspire the rise of a movement of Speakers for the Dead. The movement is not a religion, although Speakers are treated with the respect afforded to a priest or cleric. Any citizen has the legal right to summon a Speaker (or a priest of any faith, which Speakers are legally considered) to mark the death of a family member. Speakers research the dead person's life and give a speech that attempts to speak for them, describing the person's life as he or she tried to live it. This speech is not given in order to persuade the audience to condemn or forgive the deceased, but rather a way to understand the person as a whole, including any flaws or misdeeds.
The novel begins 3,081 years after the events of the first book, by which time the works of The Hive Queen and The Hegemon have caused the human race to let go of its hatred of the Buggers and instead revile Ender as "The Xenocide", who exterminated an entire species. Ender himself, now using his real name of Andrew Wiggin, is still alive due to relativistic space travel, and still acting as a Speaker for the Dead. No one connects "Andrew Wiggin" with "Ender Wiggin", nor do they connect him (as "Andrew" or "Ender") with the original Speaker for the Dead.
Relation to Ender's Game[edit]
Whereas the previous novel focused on armies and space warfare, Speaker for the Dead is philosophical in nature, although it still advances a xenology for the planetary setting. Its story finds Andrew in a human colony on the colony planet Lusitania, believed to be the only remaining planet in Card's universe with an intelligent alien race after the xenocide of the "Buggers" in Ender's Game. The novel deals with the difficult relationship between the humans and the "piggies" (or "pequeninos", since the action is set in a Catholic Portuguese research installation) and with Andrew's attempts to bring peace to a brilliant but troubled family whose history is intertwined with that of the pequeninos.
The Pequeninos[edit]
Main article: Pequeninos
The Pequeninos (also known as "piggies") are a native species on Lusitania. They are the only sentient alien species discovered since the xenocide of the buggers. Many provisions are taken by the Starways Congress to prevent contaminating the Pequeninos culture with any human technological advances or human culture. At the beginning, not much is known about them other than that they worship the trees and call the trees their fathers. Later on in the book, it is learned that the Pequeninos have what is called a "third life", where they are reborn as trees. It is a great honor to be allowed to enter the third life, one of the reasons being that only when they are in the third life are they able to reproduce. The Pequeninos have a special language reserved for speaking to the trees, and the trees can be manipulated to build wooden structures and tools as a favor to the piggies. The Pequeninos want to learn much more about human culture and "murder" Xenologers Pipo and Libo. Pipo and Libo both contributed significantly to their survival, so the Pequeninos wanted them to vivisect a Pequenino, which is necessary to attain the third life. However, Pipo and Libo both refused and the Pequeninos proceeded to vivisect them instead, with intentions of their entering the third life. However, their endeavor failed as Libo and Pipo are humans and have no third life. As the nature of the third life and the necessary procedure was unknown to humans, it appeared to the human population that Pipo and Libo were brutally murdered. Thus the main and first reason that Ender came to Lusitania.
Characters[edit]
Andrew Wiggin
Valentine Wiggin
Novinha
Os Venerados de Ribeira
Jane
Miro
Olhado
Rooter
Pipo
Libo
Human
Leaf Eater
Lack of film adaptation[edit]
At the Los Angeles Times Book Festival (April 20, 2013), Card stated why he does not want Speaker for the Dead made into a film: "Speaker for the Dead is unfilmable," Card said in response to a question from the audience. "It consists of talking heads, interrupted by moments of excruciating and unwatchable violence. Now, I admit, there's plenty of unwatchable violence in film, but never attached to my name. Speaker for the Dead, I don't want it to be filmed. I can't imagine it being filmed."[4]
Reception[edit]
Nebula Award winner, 1986[1]
Hugo Award winner, 1987[2]
Locus Award winner, 1987[2]
John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, 1987[2]
Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis winner, 1989
See also[edit]
List of characters in the Ender's Game series
List of works by Orson Scott Card
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "1986 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d "1987 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
3.Jump up ^ Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, pp. 5-7
4.Jump up ^ http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-orson-scott-card-20130420,0,5541792.story
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Orson Scott Card
About the novel Speaker for the Dead from Card's website
Speaker for the Dead at Worlds Without End
Speaker for the Dead title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Xenocide

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Xenocide
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Cover of first edition (hardcover)
 
Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
August 1991
Media type
Print (Hardcover , Paperback & ebook)
Pages
592 pp
ISBN
0-312-85056-5
OCLC Number
22909973
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 20
LC Classification
PS3553.A655 X46 1991
Preceded by
Speaker for the Dead
Followed by
Children of the Mind
Xenocide (1991) is the third novel in the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card. It was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel in 1992.[1] The title is a combination of 'xeno-', meaning alien, and '-cide', referring to the act of killing; altogether referring to the act of selectively killing populations of aliens, a play on genocide.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot summary 1.1 Lusitania
1.2 World of Path
1.3 Outside
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
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Ender's Game series

Chronology
Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.
Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. With The Fleet on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable. [2]
Lusitania[edit]
Following the events of Speaker for the Dead, we find a story of another set of characters living as members of a Brazilian Catholic human colony on Lusitania, a unique planet inhabited by the only other two known species of sentient alien life: the Pequeninos "little ones" and the Hive Queen. The pequeninos are native to the planet, while the Hive Queen was transplanted to this world by Ender, partly in penance for his near-total destruction of her Formic species in Ender's Game.
Unfortunately, the Lusitanian ecosystem is pervaded by a complex virus, dubbed 'Descolada' (Portuguese for "no longer glued") by humans. The Descolada breaks apart and rearranges the basic genetic structure of living cells. It's incredibly adaptable to any species or form of known life, and easily transmissible. The native pequeninos and other life that survived on Lusitania after the Descolada's introduction to the planet thousands (or millions) of years ago are adapted to it. As a result of the deadly virus, the Lusitanian ecosystem is severely limited. Staying alive on Lusitania takes immense effort and research on the part of the Hive Queen and the humans, as they are not adapted to the descolada. Near the end of the story, it is revealed the Descolada is possibly an artificially engineered virus designed to terraform planets, but the original creators of the virus are unknown, and there remains a slim chance it evolved naturally.
After the rebellion of the small human colony on Lusitania in Speaker for the Dead to protect the future of the intelligent alien species, Starways Congress sends a fleet to Lusitania to regain control, which will take several decades to reach its destination. Valentine Wiggin, under her pseudonym Demosthenes, publishes a series of articles revealing the presence of the "Little Doctor" planet-annihilating weapon on the Fleet. Demosthenes calls it the "Second Xenocide," as using the weapon will result in the obliteration of the only known intelligent alien life. She also claims it to be a brutal crackdown of any colony world striving for autonomy from Starways Congress. Public anger spreads through humanity, and rebellions nearly ensue on several colonies.
After quelling much public discontent, Starways Congress finishes their analysis of the situation while the fleet is en route. Fearing the Descolada virus, further rebellions by colony worlds, and other possible unknown political motives, Starways Congress attempts to relay an order to the fleet to annihilate Lusitania upon arrival. After conferring with friends on whether a cause is worth dying for, Jane (a compassionate AI living in the interstellar Ansible communication network) shuts off transmissions to the fleet to block the order. As a consequence of this action, she risks her eventual discovery and death, should the government shut down and wipe the interplanetary network. No known smaller computer system can house her consciousness.
On Lusitania itself, Ender attempts to find solutions to the looming catastrophes of the Congressional fleet, Descolada virus, and conflicts among the humans and intelligent alien species. Much on Lusitania centers around the Ribeira family, including Ender's wife Novinha, and her children. Novinha and Elanora, the mother-daughter team responsible for most of the biological advances countering the complex Descolada virus, are unsure if they can manufacture a harmless replacement virus. Conflicts arise on whether they should even do so, since the Descolada is intrinsically tied in with the life cycles of all Lustitanian organisms, and may even be sentient itself. In addition, to try to devise methods to escape the planet, Lusitania's leading, troublemaking physicist Grego is persuaded by Ender to research faster-than-light travel, despite Grego scoffing at the idea. The third biologista of the family, Quara, is convinced that the Descolada is an intelligent, self-aware species, and deserves attempts from the humans for communication and preservation. An additional sibling and Catholic priest, Quim (Father Estevão), is determined to use faith and theology to head off another form of xenocide: a group of warmongering Pequenino wish to wipe out all Earthborn life via starship, carrying the deadly Descolada within them.
World of Path[edit]
Starways Congress wants its fleet back. After all else fails, it sends the dilemma of the fleet's impossible disappearance to several citizens of the world of Path, a cultural planetary enclave modeled on early China. Path's culture centers on the godspoken—those who hear the voices of the gods in the form of irresistible compulsions, and are capable of significantly superior intelligence. It later becomes clear that the godspoken of Path are victims of a cruel government project: granted great intelligence by genetic modification, they were also shackled with a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder to control their loyalty. The experiment is set in a culture bound by five dictates - obey the gods, honor the ancestors, love the people, serve the rulers, then serve your self. This is a further safeguard against rebellion. The superintelligent godspoken are considered the most devout and holy of all citizens, and any disloyal thoughts in a godspoken's mind are immediately suppressed by overwhelming obsessive-compulsive behavior, believed to be a sign from the gods the thoughts are wrong. The most respected godspoken on Path is Han Fei-Tzu, for devising a treaty to prevent the rebellion of several colony worlds after the articles published by Demosthenes. Great things are expected of his daughter and potential successor Han Qing-jao, "Gloriously Bright." While doubting the existence of the gods himself, Han Fei-Tzu promised his dying wife he would raise Qing-jao with an unwavering belief in the godspoken. The two of them are tasked by Starways Congress with deciphering the disappearance of the Lusitania Fleet. Han Qing-jao's secret maid, Si Wang-mu, aids her in this task, her intelligence (partially) unfettered by the rigid caste system.
The young and naive Qing-jao eventually traces the identity of Demosthenes. Discovering that Demosthenes is Valentine Wiggin, Ender's sister – but that Valentine has been on a starship en route to Lusitania for the last thirty years – Qing-Jao concludes that the only possible explanation is advanced computer software closely tied to the communication network. This software must be hiding Demosthenes and publishing her work, while also causing the disappearance of the Fleet. All but discovered, Jane reveals herself to Han Fei-tzu, Han Qing-jao and Si Wang-mu, telling them about their genetic slavery and begging forbearance on their report to Starways Congress.
Already harboring suspicions about the godspoken's condition, Han Fei-tzu accepts the news of Congress's atrocity, as does Si Wang-mu, but his daughter Han Qing-jao clings to her belief that Demosthenes and Jane are enemies of the gods. Feeling betrayed by her father, who is violently incapacitated by OCD from the disloyal thoughts, Qing-jao argues with Jane. Jane threatens shutting off all communications from Path, but Si Wang-mu realizes this would eventually lead to the planet's destruction by Starways Congress. Understanding Jane to be truly alive and compassionate, through tears Si Wang-mu states Jane will not block the report. However, Qing-jao compares Jane to the servants in Path's caste system, merely a computer program designed to serve humans, containing neither autonomy nor awareness.
Knowing she has exhausted her last possibilities of stopping Qing-jao, Jane sacrifices her future and life, unwilling to bring harm to Qing-jao or the people of Path. A triumphant Qing-jao reports the knowledge of Demosthenes, Jane, and the fate of the Fleet to Starways Congress. Qing-jao recommends a coordinated date set several months from the present, to prepare the massive undertaking of setting up clean computers across the interplanetary network, after which the transition to a new system will kill Jane and allow Congress full control again. Allowing the message to be sent, Jane restores communication with the Fleet, and Congress re-issues the order for the Fleet to obliterate Lusitania.
Han Fei-tzu recovers from the incapacitation of his OCD, despairing over his daughter's actions, and his unwitting aid in deeply brainwashing her to serve Congress. He and Si Wang-mu assist Jane and those on Lusitania in finding solutions to their impending catastrophes. Planter, a Pequenino on Lusitania, offers his life for an experiment to determine whether the Descolada gives Pequeninos sentience, or if they have the ability innately. Eventually, Elanora Ribeira is able to come up with a possible model for a "recolada:" a refit of the Descolada that allows the native life to survive and retain self-awareness, but doesn't seek to kill all other life forms. With the available equipment, however, the recolada is impossible to make, and they are running out of time against the soon-to-arrive Fleet.
Outside[edit]
While this research takes place, tragedies occur on Lusitania. Father Estevão Ribeira, the priest attempting to sway a distant warmongering sect of the Pequeninos from their goal of attacking humanity, is killed. Grego Ribeira spurs a riot of humans to burn down the warmonger's forest, but the violent mob gets out of his control, and rampages through the neighboring Pequenino forest instead, massacring many of its inhabitants – the original friends and allies of humanity. Under the terms of the treaty with Pequeninos, the Hive Queen is brought in to hold the peace, setting a perimeter guard of hive drones around the human colony and preventing further escalation of violence between the two groups. Grego is locked in jail, despite eventually stepping between the surviving Pequeninos and his own riot. The town realizes their horrific rage, and constructs a chapel surrounding the fallen priest's grave, trying to find penance for their actions.
Finally - a breakthrough is made. Knowing the Ansible communication network allows instantaneous transfer of information, and through knowledge of how the Hive Queen gives sentience to child queens, Jane, Grego, and Olhado discover the "Outside." The Outside is a spacetime plane where aiúas initially exist. (Aiúa is the term given to the pattern defining any specific structure of the universe, whether a particular atom, a star, or a sentient consciousness.) Formic hive queens are called from Outside after birth, giving awareness to the new body. Jane is able to contain within her vast computing power the pattern defining the billions of atoms and overall structure comprising a simple "starship" (little more than a room), with passengers included, and take them Outside. By bringing them Outside, where relative location is nonexistent, then back "Inside" at a different spot in the physical universe, instantaneous travel has been achieved, finally matching the instantaneous communication of the Ansibles and Formics. They quickly arrange to take Ender, Ela, and Miro to Outside. While Ela is Outside, she is able to create the recolada virus, which is a safe replacement of the descolada, and a cure to the godspoken genetic defect. Miro envisions his body as it was before he was crippled by paralysis, and upon arrival in the Outside, his consciousness is contained within a new, restored body. Ender discovers, however, the surreal unwitting creation of a new "Valentine" and new "Peter Wiggin" from his subconscious, who embody idealized forms of his altruistic and power-hungry sides.
The recolada begins its spread across Lusitania, converting the formerly lethal virus into a harmless aid to native life. The cure to the people of Path's genetic-controlling defect is distributed, yet Han Fei-tzu is tragically unable to convince his daughter Qing-jao this was the true course of action. Confronted with the possibility of being lied to all her life and dooming many sentient species to destruction, or an alternative of believing all she ever loved and trusted has betrayed her – Demosthenes, her father, her friend, her world – she falls to the ground. The young Qing-jao, Gloriously Bright, is lost to insanity, tracing lines in wood until her death, whispering to a long-gone father and mother if she has finally found forgiveness. Her former maid and friend Si Wang-mu sets off with Peter to take control over Starways Congress and stop the Fleet closing in on Lusitania, while the new Valentine-persona journeys to find a planet for the population of Lusitania to evacuate. The stage is set for the final book of the four-part series, Children of the Mind.
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1.Jump up ^ "1992 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
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Children of the Mind

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Children of the Mind
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
August 1996
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
349 pp
ISBN
0-312-85395-5
OCLC Number
33971186
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 20
LC Classification
PS3553.A655 C48 1996
Preceded by
Xenocide
Followed by
A War of Gifts
Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth book of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin. This book was originally the second half of Xenocide, before it was split into two novels.
Plot summary[edit]

Ender's Game series

Chronology
Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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At the start of Children of the Mind, Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, is using her newly discovered abilities to take the races of buggers, humans and pequeninos outside the universe and back in instantaneously. She uses these powers to move them to distant habitable planets for colonization. She is losing her memories and concentration as the vast computer network connected to the ansible is being shut down. If she is to survive, she must find a way to transfer her aiúa (or soul) to a human body.
Peter Wiggin and Si Wang-Mu travel to the worlds of Divine Wind and Pacifica to convince the Japanese-led swing group of the Starways Congress to revoke their order to destroy Lusitania. By tracing the decision making trail backwards, they are able to show a philosopher his influence on the Starways Congress. After several complications, the philosopher convinces the Tsutsumi clan to exert their influence with the Necessarian faction in the Starways Congress to stop the Lusitania fleet. The admiral at the head of the Lusitania fleet, however, disobeys the Congress' order and does what he believes Ender Wiggin, the perpetrator of the first Xenocide, would have done and fires the Molecular Disruption Device (MD).
Upon Ender Wiggin's death, Jane guides his aiúa to Peter's body, while she is granted possession of Young Val's body, and thus is not destroyed when the ansible shuts down. She is then able to continue transporting starships instantaneously by borrowing the vast mental capacity of the simple-minded Pequenino mother-trees. She gets Peter and Wang-Mu close enough to the MD missile and transport it back to the Lusitania fleet, where it is then disarmed and disabled. Peter and Wang-Mu's efforts finally come to fruition, and the destruction of Lusitania is averted.
Jane falls in love with Miro, and Peter with Wang-mu. Both couples are married under one of the mother-trees of the pequeninos on the same day as Ender's funeral.
See also[edit]

Portal icon Novels portal
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Ender's Shadow

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Ender's Shadow
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
September 1999
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
379 (Hardcover)
 480 (Paperback)
ISBN
0-312-86860-X
OCLC Number
41565235
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 21
LC Classification
PS3553.A655 E58 1999
Followed by
Shadow of the Hegemon
Ender's Shadow (1999) is a parallel science fiction novel by the American author Orson Scott Card, taking place at the same time as the novel Ender's Game and depicting some of the same events from the point of view of Bean, a supporting character in the original novel. It was originally to be titled Urchin, but it was retitled Ender's Shadow prior to release.[1] Ender's Shadow was shortlisted for a Locus Award in 2000.[2]

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2 Comics
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Plot summary[edit]

Ender's Game series

Chronology
Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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Bean, the main character, is a homeless child living in the hellish streets of Rotterdam in roughly 2170 after escaping as an infant from an illegal genetic engineering laboratory. Being barely-intelligent and extremely young, Bean's experiences revolve primarily around his need for food. He joins a large gang of children led by a girl named Poke and sets up a system in which they can all receive nourishment at a local soup kitchen. Specifically, the group gets a bully, Achilles, to be their protector. However, Achilles is increasingly ruthless, protective, and methodical.
Luckily for Bean, his incredible mind, creativity, and determination bring him to the attention of Sister Carlotta, a nun who is recruiting children to fight a war against the Buggers. At the training facility, Battle School, Bean's true genius becomes apparent. Not only is he smarter than average, he is smarter than any other child at Battle School, including Ender Wiggin. Despite Bean's intelligence, it is Ender who has been chosen to save humanity from the Buggers. Bean, being an extraordinary genius, begins to uncover secrets and truths about the school. Bean struggles to understand what quality Ender has that he does not, until he is assigned to draw up a "hypothetical" roster for Ender's army, and adds himself to the list. At first, Ender does not appear to recognize Bean's brilliance, but time shows that he was grooming Bean as his tactical support, putting him at the head of an unorthodox platoon challenged to outthink the teachers who designed the game, and defeat their attempts to tip the balance of advantages towards Ender's rivals.[1]
Throughout the book, the main theme rests on Bean's personal struggle against the IF administration, which seems bent on breaking Ender, even if it means murder. Throughout all of this, Bean has to contend with the reappearance of Achilles and his own struggle to understand what makes Ender human.
He also makes friends with an older boy named Nikolai Delphiki who is drawn to Bean because of their similar looks. It is soon discovered, through Sister Carlotta's research, that the two boys are actually genetic twins, except for Bean's genetic enhancements. Back in the lab, the scientist Volescu had turned Anton's Key, which meant that Bean's body would never stop growing - including his brain - until a premature death between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. Sister Carlotta manages to ensure that Bean will get to live with Nikolai and his parents after the war.[1] Through illustrating Bean's experiences in Battle School, the novel shows how he, a secondary character in Ender's Game, was much more important to the fate of Earth. In addition, the book depicts the first of Bean's encounters with Achilles. At the very end of the story, after they defeat the buggers, Ender leaves on a colonization ship and never returns to Earth as part of a treaty so no countries or groups on Earth can use him.[1]
Ender's Shadow is the first of a series that includes Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, and Shadows in Flight.
Comics[edit]
Main article: Ender's Shadow: Battle School
A five-issue comic book limited series based on Ender's Shadow, called Ender's Shadow: Battle School. was released on December 3, 2008. It was written by Mike Carey, with art by Sebastian Fiumara.[3]
Awards[edit]
The novel has received numerous awards, including:
New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1999)[4]
SF Site Reader's Choice (1999)[4]
Alex Awards (2000)[4]
ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2000)[4]
Geffen Award (Best Translated Science Fiction Book, 2001)[4]
ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (2004)[4]
Translations[edit]
China Chinese: "安德的影子" ("Ender's Shadow").
Czech Republic Czech: "Enderův stín" ("Ender's Shadow").
Israel Hebrew: "הצל של אנדר" ("Ender's Shadow").
Netherlands Dutch: "Enders Schaduw" ("Ender's Shadow").
Poland Polish: "Cień Endera" ("Ender's Shadow").
Russia Russian: "Тень Эндера" ("Ender's Shadow").
Spain Spanish: "La sombra de Ender" ("Ender's Shadow").
Romania Romanian: "Umbra lui Ender" ("Ender's Shadow").
France French: "La Stratégie de l'Ombre" ("Shadow's Strategy")
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Portal icon Novels portal
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List of works by Orson Scott Card
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d Card, Orson (1999). Ender's Shadow. Tor Books. p. 379. ISBN 0-312-86860-X.
2.Jump up ^ "2000 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
3.Jump up ^ Enrolling in School: Carey on Ender's Shadow: Battle School, Newsarama, December 2, 2008
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Ender's Shadow". Retrieved 2009-09-19.
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Shadow of the Hegemon

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Shadow of the Hegemon
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1st edition, Hardcover
 
Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
2001
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
440 pp
ISBN
0-312-87651-3
OCLC Number
44046723
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 21
LC Classification
PS3553.A655 S525 2001
Preceded by
Ender's Shadow
Followed by
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Hegemon (2001) is the second novel in the Ender's Shadow series (often called the Bean Quartet) by Orson Scott Card. It is also the sixth novel in the Ender's Game series. It is told mostly from the point of view of Bean, a largely peripheral character in the original novel Ender's Game. Shadow of the Hegemon was nominated for a Locus Award in 2002.[1]

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2 Characters
3 History
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Plot summary[edit]

Ender's Game series

Chronology
Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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In Shadow of the Hegemon, all of the Battle School graduates, except Ender, return to Earth in approximately 2170 A.D. Ender's brother Peter, using his online pseudonym Locke, arranges for Ender to be returned to earth so he can control Ender, however Valentine under the pseudonym Demosthenes uses Peter's violent deranged past against him to keep Ender exiled on another planet so that the world's leaders won't be tempted to fight over his military genius. Shortly after their return, the members of the unit Ender commanded (called his Jeesh, an Arabic word meaning 'army'; because they fought under Ender, those 10 children are considered the greatest generals on the planet), with the exception of Bean, are kidnapped to be used as strategists in an upcoming struggle for world dominance that ensues after the Formics are defeated.
The mastermind behind the kidnappings is Achilles, (ah-SHEEL) a brilliant, ambitious, and psychotic Belgian orphan. He subjects them to solitary confinement so they will help him in his plans for world domination. Bean had imprisoned Achilles in the previous novel, so in retaliation Achilles attempts (unsuccessfully) to kill Bean, along with Bean's family. The Delphikis go into hiding, while Bean joins forces with Sister Carlotta. After he discovers an encoded message in an e-mail sent by Petra confirming that the Russians are Achilles' backers, he works to free her and the others, while helping Ender's brother Peter come to power under his own name so he can eventually be appointed Hegemon and work against Achilles.
When Peter publishes a column under the Locke pseudonym revealing Achilles for the psychopathic murderer he is, the Battle Schoolers are released—except for Petra, whom Achilles brings captive with him to India, where he has secured a position of power. From there, he requests plans for an invasion of Burma and then Thailand. Indian Battle School graduates serving their country, including Sayagi and Virlomi, develop plans for brute-force attacks involving long supply lines. Petra, for her part, arranges a different plan, involving stripping India's garrisons along her borders with Pakistan—something she expects will never happen, until Achilles takes her to a meeting with Pakistan's prime minister, in which he encourages the two great Indian nations to declare peace on each other and war with their other neighbors. Nonetheless, her plan is not used, but for a different reason: Achilles is secretly working for China, and has convinced India to move the bulk of its forces to the border of Thailand, giving China the opportunity to annihilate the Indian army. At that point, Achilles plans to leave India for China, and continue his efforts towards world domination.
Petra finds an ally in Virlomi, who manages to get word to Bean that Petra is being held an unwilling prisoner, and eventually escapes the military compound to bring rescue. Bean, for his part, has allied himself with Peter Wiggin. Courtesy of Bean's and Sister Carlotta's assets, "Locke" is nominated publicly for the position of Hegemon, allowing Peter to unmask himself in a way that does not compromise (and, in fact, increases) his prestige. Meanwhile, Bean, courtesy of Peter's assets, moves to Thailand to get in Achilles's way. He enters the Thai military under the patronage of Suriyawong (or Suri), a fellow Battle School graduate and (nominal) head of Thailand's planning division. Bean trains his own force of 200 Thai soldiers for special operations against India. When the Thai Commander-in-Chief betrays Suriyawong and Bean by attempting to kill them, it becomes clear that Achilles' reach has grown; thankfully, Bean's hunches save him and Suri, and he hides them in the barracks of his troops, e-mailing his few real-life contacts to arrange rescue. Thailand is declared in a State of Emergency and prepares for war. However, Achilles gets the last laugh: Sister Carlotta, flying to Thailand, is killed by a Chinese SAM fired from inside Thailand. As her last act, Bean receives a time-delay message from her, revealing the nature of Anton's Key that had been turned inside him and that he has given up many years of his life for his genius.
Bean and Suriyawong use the troops Bean has trained to help halt Indian supply lines. While striking a bridge, they meet Virlomi. Virlomi defects, bringing news of Petra; the three band together and, with the aid of Bean's soldiers and Locke's distinguished connections, move on Hyderabad, arriving just as the Chinese do. Bean foils Achilles again and rescues Petra, though the Chinese manage to extract Achilles successfully. Furthermore, "Locke" publishes an essay detailing the Chinese betrayal just as it is happening, and on the basis of this prescience (and other miracles over the years) Peter Wiggin is elected Hegemon over the world. Finally, Petra approaches Bean and makes clear the attraction she feels for him, setting the stage for the remainder of the series.
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Julian "Bean" Delphiki
Petra Arkanian
Achilles de Flandres
Sister Carlotta
Peter Wiggin
Hyrum Graff
Suriyawong
Virlomi
John Paul Wiggin
Theresa Wiggin
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Card accredits two books in particular as being profoundly influential in the writing of this novel: Thailand: A Short History by David K. Wyatt and Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James. In addition to these two books he was also inspired by Phillip Absher, who was one of the readers of the first draft. Phillip suggested that the Petra arc of the novel was anti-climactic. Upon hearing this criticism, Card rethought this entire book and decided to split it into two books. At the time of publication, Card thought the Bean series (Shadow series) of the Enderverse would only be four books long.[2]
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1.Jump up ^ "2002 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
2.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon (Tor Books, 2000). Pgs 447-450. ISBN 0-8125-6595-9.
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Shadow Puppets

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Shadow Puppets
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
2002
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
384 pp
ISBN
0-7653-0017-6
OCLC Number
51336647
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 21
LC Classification
PS3553.A655 S53 2002
Preceded by
Shadow of the Hegemon
Followed by
Shadow of the Giant
Shadow Puppets is science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card, published in 2002. It is the sequel to Shadow of the Hegemon and the third book in the Ender's Shadow series (often called the Bean Quartet). It was originally to be called Shadow of Death.[1]

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2 See also
3 References
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Ender's Game series

Chronology
Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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Peter, Ender's brother, is now Hegemon of Earth. Accepting a tip from inside China, where Achilles is held prisoner, Peter had planned for Bean to operate the mission, but at the last minute (because he doubted Bean would cooperate) assigns Suriyawong, a Battle School student from Thailand, to rescue Achilles in transport, believing that he can spy on Achilles, take over his network, and then turn Achilles over to some country for trial (at the time of this story, Achilles has betrayed Russia, Pakistan, and India).
Achilles is known to kill anyone who has seen him vulnerable. Bean and his friend Petra, who also served under Ender and who is travelling with Bean, have both seen Achilles so and immediately go into hiding, preparing for a future confrontation. Bean believes Peter has seriously underestimated Achilles, and that he (Bean) is not safe unless he is hidden. During their travels, Petra convinces Bean to marry her and have children with her by taking him to Anton, the person who Anton's Key (Bean's Condition) was named after. Bean is reluctant to have children, as he does not want his Anton's Key gene to be passed on. He finds Volescu, the original doctor who activated the key in his genes, and has him prepare nine embryos through artificial insemination. Volescu pretends to identify three embryos with Anton's Key and they are discarded. One of the remaining six is implanted into Petra, while the rest of them are placed under guard.
At the same time, a message is passed to Bean that Han Tzu, a comrade from Battle School, was not in fact the informant in the message sent to Peter about Achilles. Realizing that it had been a setup, Bean gets a message to Peter's parents, and they flee with Peter from the Hegemon's compound. Bean narrowly escapes an assassination attempt himself, and escapes to Damascus. There they find that another Battle School comrade, Alai, is the unrivaled Caliph of a nearly unified Muslim world. Meanwhile, their embryos are stolen, and Bean expects Achilles to use them to bait a trap for them.
Peter and his parents escape to the colonization platform in space that used to be the battle school, relying on the protection of Colonel Graff, the former commander of that school, now Minister of Colonization. Shortly after they arrive, however, a message is sent betraying their presence. Faking their departure from the space station, Peter and his parents discover the traitor, one of the teachers at battle school. The unmanned shuttle sent as a decoy is shot down over Brazil (the location of the former compound of the Hegemon, now occupied by Achilles).
In the previous novel, China had conquered India and Indochina. Alai plans to liberate them by invading first China (in a feint), and then India (once China has withdrawn its armies to defend the homeland). His invasion is successful, and in the midst of realizing their danger, the Chinese government disavows Achilles, providing evidence that he stole the missile launcher that destroyed the decoy space shuttle. Left with nowhere to turn, Achilles contacts Bean and offers the embryos in exchange for safe passage.
Bean and Peter return to the Hegemon's compound. Achilles expects Bean to be so besotted with the idea of retrieving his children that he can be killed with a bomb in the transport container for them. When Bean sees through that trap, Achilles offers up fake embryos in petri dishes, expecting to lure Bean into a vulnerable position where Bean can be killed. However, Bean has already decided that Achilles was faking and refuses to fall for any of his traps. Finally, Bean pulls out a pistol and shoots him in the eye. Thus, Achilles is killed in a similar fashion to his first victim Poke, who he killed with a knife to the eye earlier in the series.
The novel ends with Peter restored as Hegemon, Petra reunited with Bean, a Caliph in command of the world's Muslims, a China severely reduced in territory and forced to accept humiliating surrender terms, and the embryos still lost.
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First Meetings

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First Meetings
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Publication date
2002
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
149 pp
ISBN
1-931081-69-7
OCLC Number
50596863
First Meetings (2002) is a collection of Orson Scott Card's short stories from the Ender's Game series. Tor Books republished the book in 2003 under the titles First Meetings in the Enderverse and First Meetings in Ender's Universe and included the more recent "Teacher's Pest", a story about the first meeting of Ender's parents.
Story list[edit]
The stories in this book are:
"The Polish Boy" (2002)
"Teacher's Pest" (2003) (Not present in 2002 version of book)
"Ender's Game" (1977)
"Investment Counselor" (1999)
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Shadow of the Giant

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Shadow of the Giant
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
2005
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
368
ISBN
0-312-85758-6
OCLC Number
57429685
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 22
LC Classification
PS3553.A655 S524 2005
Preceded by
Shadow Puppets
Followed by
Ender in Exile
Shadows in Flight
Shadow of the Giant (2005) is the fourth novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow series.

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The rest of the book deals with Peter Wiggin working to create a world government free of war through his Free People of Earth (FPE) alliance. Caliph Alai of the Muslim League and Virlomi, now the virtual goddess of India, oppose his efforts. Against this backdrop of world political machinations by the former Battle School children is the extremely personal story of Bean. Anton's Key is making him grow at an astounding rate and he has only a short time before his body will become too large for his heart to support. He searches frantically for his and Petra's missing children. Graff assists them in locating the surrogate mothers of their children. While Bean and Petra wait for news, Graff extends invitations to the other members of Ender's Jeesh to leave Earth and rule colonies, where they can conquer to their heart's content without causing needless wars between themselves, and instructs Bean to support Peter in forming the FPE.
The FPE alliance begins with only twenty-two countries, among them Brazil, Rwanda, and the Netherlands. The first test of the FPE comes when they recognize the sovereignty and nationhood of the Nubian, Quechua, and Aymara peoples, ethnic minorities that are politically part of other nations. Peru and Sudan send troops against these "rebel" strongholds, but Peter defends them using Bean and Suriyawong, leading Rwandan and Thai troops, to show that war against one FPE member is war against all of them. The FPE's victories, and especially their militarily brilliant commanders, bolster support for the FPE, and nations begin to freely vote on whether to join it.
Meanwhile, Bean suspects that Peter is embezzling Ender's military pension to fund the FPE, so he requests that Ender's funds be placed under the control of an autonomous computer. Colonel Graff has the Mind Game reprogrammed to accurately predict financial markets and turns it loose over the ansible network; it continues to invest Ender's pension and eventually evolves into the artificial intelligence known as Jane. The Mind Game also speeds the search for Bean's missing children, allowing the International Fleet to find eight of them; two of whom have Anton's Key turned, as does the baby Petra is carrying. The ninth remains undetected, as Achilles had it implanted into a woman named Randi, brainwashed to think that it is the baby of Achilles, whom she worships as a hero assassinated by foul enemies. To avoid persecution, Randi determines to leave Earth and live in a colony, where she can raise her child (who appears to have Anton's Key turned, as the baby is born prematurely) to follow in Achilles' footsteps. Her story, and that of her child Randall Firth, is concluded in Card's later novel Ender in Exile.
Virlomi attempts to guarantee India's freedom via dynastic marriage, turning down an offer from Han Tzu to instead attempt to seduce Peter Wiggin. When Peter turns her down, she turns to Alai whom she finds easier to outmaneuver. Their new "Hindu-Muslim... thing," to quote the Prime Minister of Armenia ("I call it a riot with scripture," quips Jeesh member Vlad) is fraught with tension and Alai discovers that, despite his wife's status as an infidel and a woman, the more hotheaded members of his empire actually prefer her aggressive and expansionist policies. Virlomi then declares war on China, setting off all manner of plots: Muslim hardliners attempt to assassinate Alai; Russia invades China and eastern Europe using "contingency" plans drawn up by a horrified Vlad; and Fly Molo of the Philippines is instructed to invade Taiwan, his nation suicidally confident in their Jeesh member. In this way, all the Battle School grads are convinced to take up Graff's offer to travel the stars, realizing that their presence on Earth guarantees continued and wasteful war. Even Virlomi agrees, after Suri manages to snap her out of her growing megalomania.
With the secret help of Mazer Rackham, Bean divorces Petra for her own sake, takes the three found children with Anton's Key, and flies away on a starship provided by the Fleet to achieve relativistic speeds and thereby stay alive long enough for medical researchers to find a cure. Bean's departure breaks Petra's heart, but she becomes Peter's military commander, eventually marrying and having five children with him, though she never stops loving Bean. By the end of the novel, all of the world's nations, except the United States, have joined the FPE. Peter reconciles with Ender via ansible, giving the "Speaker for the Dead" all he needs to write The Hegemon, a deeply felt and truthful biography of his brother. Petra reads his biography at his grave, thinking of him as the man who truly changed her life. Still, Bean remains the one who she loves and has changed her life the most.[1]
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A War of Gifts: An Ender Story

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A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
2007
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
128 pp
ISBN
0-7653-1282-4
OCLC Number
137222863
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 22
LC Classification
PS3553.A655 W37 2007
Preceded by
Children of the Mind
Followed by
Ender in Exile
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. This book is set in Card's Ender's Game series and takes place during Ender Wiggin's time at Battle School as described in Card's novels Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow.

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  [hide] 1 Plot summary
2 Characters 2.1 Morgan family
2.2 Wiggin family
2.3 Students
2.4 International Fleet personnel
3 Literary significance and reception
4 Connection to "Ender’s Stocking"
5 Connection to other parts of the Ender series
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Plot summary[edit]

Ender's Game series

Chronology
Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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A War of Gifts begins in North Carolina where Zechariah 'Zeck' Morgan, a boy with nearly perfect memory, lives with his family. Though Zeck’s father is the minister of his own church and has raised Zeck to be a pacifist, he beats the boy regularly. When the International Fleet shows up to take Zeck to Battle School, Zeck’s mother sees this as the perfect opportunity to get the boy away from his abusive father. The story takes place when Ender is just newly transferred to Rat Army, before meeting Dink.
At Battle School, the other students barely tolerate Zeck because of his strong religious beliefs and his refusal to fight in the Battle Room. On December fifth Zeck sees a Dutch boy put a Sinterklaas Day gift in another Dutch boy’s shoe. Because religious activities including prayer and holidays are forbidden at Battle School and Zeck has been taught by his father that Santa Claus is evil, he decides to report the two boys to Colonel Graff. After the Colonel calls the boys in and reprimands them, they decide to rebel by getting everyone to celebrate not Christmas, but Santa Claus, as he is not a religious symbol in the book, but a secular one. When Zeck complains to the authorities, they refuse to do anything.
Zeck goes to the Muslim students and points out that the Christians are being allowed to celebrate their holidays. Some of the Muslim students begin daily prayers. When the administration forcibly stops the Muslims from praying, the other students stop giving each other Christmas presents. They also refuse to speak to Zeck. When he begins to have a nervous breakdown because of the isolation, Ender Wiggin decides to have a talk with him. In doing so, Ender discovers that Zeck was desperately trying to get sent back home so that he could protect his mother from his father. After he convinces Zeck that his mother doesn't need to be protected, Ender gives him a small "Santa Claus" present. When the other students learn that Zeck accepted the gift, they stop ignoring him and go back to tolerating him.[1]
Characters[edit]
Morgan family[edit]
Zeck Morgan
Reverend Habit Morgan - Zeck’s father
Unnamed - Zeck's mother
Wiggin family[edit]
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin
Peter Wiggin - Ender's older brother
Valentine Wiggin - Ender's older sister
John Paul Wiggin - Ender's father
Theresa Wiggin - Ender's mother
Students[edit]
Dink Meeker - Dutch boy
Filippus "Flip" Rietveld - Dutch boy
"Rose de Nose" Rosen
Ahmed - Pakistani (Muslim) student
Unnamed - Other students
Bean
International Fleet personnel[edit]
Captain Bridegan
Agnes O’Toole - IF tester
Colonel Graff - Battle School commander
Unnamed - Teachers, Counselors, Marines
Literary significance and reception[edit]
A War of Gifts was not particularly well received by genre critics. The chief complaint with the story is that although it raises the issues of faith, religious freedom and religious suppression, it does so in a very superficial manner.[2][3] Some critics have also commented on the character of Ender Wiggin who is described as being too Christ-like to be believable.[3][4]
Connection to "Ender’s Stocking"[edit]
Chapter 2 Ender’s Stocking where Peter fights with his mother over the Christmas stocking she has prepared for Ender while he is away at Battle School originally appeared in the short story "Ender's Stocking" which was published in the October 2007 issue of Card’s webzine InterGalactic Medicine Show.[5] This chapter has been criticized for seeming to be unrelated to the rest of the book and for detracting from the rest of the story.[3]
Connection to other parts of the Ender series[edit]
In addition to being set during Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, the Islamic counter reaction to the Christmas celebrations in A War of Gifts sows the seeds for the creation of the Muslim Caliphate by Battle School graduates which plays a major role in the Shadow series. This is Alai, who becomes the Caliph in the Shadow series.
See also[edit]

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List of works by Orson Scott Card
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, A War of Gifts, Tor Books, November 2007.
2.Jump up ^ Thomas M. Wagner, "A War of Gifts: A review" SF Reviews, 2007.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c Steven H Silver, "A War of Gifts: A review" SF Site, 2008.
4.Jump up ^ Paul Di Filippo, "A War of Gifts: A review" SciFi.com, 2008.
5.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Stocking" Intergalactic Medicine Show, October 2007.
External links[edit]
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Ender in Exile

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Ender in Exile
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
Nov 11, 2008
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
455 pp
ISBN
0-7653-0496-1
OCLC Number
223884539
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 22
LC Classification
PS3553.A655 E498 2008
Preceded by
Ender's Game
Shadow of the Giant
Followed by
Speaker for the Dead
Ender in Exile is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, part of the Ender's Game series, published on November 11, 2008. It is an interquel and occurs between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.[1] It could also be considered a parallel novel to the last three books in the Shadow Saga, since the entirety of these books takes place in the span of Ender in Exile. The novel also concludes a story line, and makes several references to events that take place during the Shadow Saga. Ender in Exile begins one year after Ender has won the bugger war, and begins with the short story "Ender's Homecoming" from Card's webzine Intergalactic Medicine Show. Other short stories that were published elsewhere are included as chapters of the novel.

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2 Connection to short stories
3 Characters
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Plot[edit]

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Chronology
Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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One year after the Formics were defeated and the Battle School children have returned to Earth, Ender is still unable to return with them because there would be wars over which country would keep Ender to use for their own ends. Ender is offered the Governorship of the first human colony to be planted on one of the Formics' former worlds, a planet that will eventually become known as Shakespeare. His sister Valentine decides to accompany Ender on his journey because she is sick of being controlled by her older brother, Peter, and because she wants to restore the relationship with Ender that she had lost when he left to go to Battle School.
On their way to the Shakespeare colony, Valentine begins writing her History of the Bugger Wars books while Ender has an unspoken power struggle with the Captain of the ship, Admiral Quincy Morgan. Once the ship lands on Shakespeare, Ender, who had spent much of his trip learning the names and lives of the colony's residents, takes charge of the colony and wins the colonists over.
Ender resides as Governor for a few years in Shakespeare. Near the end of his time as governor, Ender and a young boy from the colony named Abra go to find a site for a new shipment of colonists. Ender wants the new settlement to be far enough away from the other settlements that there will not be competition between them right away, and so they can develop separately.
In the process of finding a location for new settlement, Ender stumbles upon what seems to be the equivalent of a note from the Formics. It is a structure made to look like a game he used to play in Battle School. When Ender goes to investigate the structure, he finds the living pupa of a Formic Hive Queen that is fertilized and prepared to make hundreds of thousands of offspring upon its own maturation.
The find leads Ender to write his first book as the Speaker for the Dead. It is a book titled The Hive Queen and it tries to look at the Formic wars and their eventual destruction from the point of view of the Formics. Later, Peter Wiggin, nearing the end of his life and knowing that Ender wrote the story, asks him to write one for him for when he dies. This book becomes known as The Hegemon.
After this, Ender resigns as Governor of Shakespeare and leaves the colony for another called Ganges. The leader of Ganges is Virlomi. Here he encounters Randall Firth who believes himself to be the son of Achilles de Flandres, and even refers to himself by the name Achilles.
Randall spreads propaganda accusing Ender of Xenocide in an attempt to discredit Virlomi and get revenge against Peter Wiggin, who he believes is responsible for his father's defeat. Randall tries twice to meet with Ender and discredit him somehow. On the second visit his plan is to cleverly provoke Ender into killing him so that people will see how violent and dangerous he is, but Ender does not attack.
Instead Ender tries to convince Randall that he is not Achilles' son, but that he is in fact the son of Bean and Petra; hence where he gets his gigantism from. Eventually, Ender manages to convince Randall of his parents' identity by allowing Randall to brutally defeat him in a one-sided fistfight, the entire time asserting that he could never hurt his friends' child. Randall ends up changing his name to Arkanian Delphiki amidst his guilt for Ender's horrifying wounds.
After Ender heals a bit, he, Valentine, and the Hive Queen pupa board a star ship to go to a new place.[2]
Connection to short stories[edit]
The following are short stories from Card's webzine Intergalactic Medicine Show which also occur within Ender in Exile:
"Ender's Homecoming" is the entire Chapter 1 except the final email from Valentine to Hyrum Graff at the end is the beginning of Chapter 2. It is identical to the original short story.[3]
"A Young Man with Prospects" is the entire Chapter 5 with an added email at the very beginning, describing how the Toscanos were selected to go to the colony, which wasn't in the original short story.[4]
"Ender in Flight" is very spread out throughout the book, and the email from Admiral Chamrajnagar to Admiral Quincy Morgan is missing from the book. It starts at the end of Chapter 7, it takes up all of Chapters 8-10, it continues in Chapter 13 and 14, and finishes in Chapter 16.[5]
Parts of "The Gold Bug" occur in Chapters 14, 15, and 16 of the book though some parts aren't in the book including a big part of the beginning of the short story.[6]
Characters[edit]
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin
Valentine Wiggin - Ender's older sister, also known as "Demosthenes"          
Peter Wiggin - Ender's older brother, Hegemon of the Free People of Earth, also known as "Locke"
John Paul Wiggin - Ender's father
Theresa Wiggin - Ender's mother
Hyrum Graff - Minister of Colonization
Mazer Rackham - Ender's mentor
Petra Arkanian - Battle School graduate, wife of Julian Delphiki, (Bean.)
Virlomi - Battle School graduate, Governor of Ganges colony
 Alessandra Toscano - a young woman
Dorabella Toscano - Alessandra's mother
Admiral Quincy Morgan - captain of the spaceship which brings colonists and supplies to Shakespeare
Vitaly Denisovitch Kolmogorov - original Governor of Shakespeare colony
Sel Menach - Chief xenobiologist and later Acting Governor of Shakespeare
Ix Tolo - Xenobiologist on Shakespeare colony
Po - Ix's older son
Abra - Ix's younger son
Arkanian Delphiki - also known as Randall Firth or Achilles, son of Petra Arkanian and Julian Delphiki ("Bean")
 
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References[edit]
Notes
1.Jump up ^ Card's Bibliography at the hatrack.com
2.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott. Ender in Exile. New York. Tor Books. 2008.
3.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Homecoming" Intergalactic Medicine Show, January 2008.
4.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "A Young Man With Prospects" Intergalactic Medicine Show, February 2007.
5.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Flight" Intergalactic Medicine Show, April 2008.
6.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "The Gold Bug" Intergalactic Medicine Show, July 2007.
External links[edit]
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Shadows in Flight

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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
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Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
January 17, 2012
ISBN
0-7653-3200-0
Preceded by
Shadow of the Giant
Followed by
Shadows Alive
Shadows in Flight is a 2012 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, and the ninth book in the Ender's Game series. This story should not be confused with Shadows Alive, the subsequent novel that brings Bean's children together with Peter and Valentine from Children of the Mind.[1] It is about Bean and his children discovering an ancient Formic "ark" during their journey in space.[2] A sample chapter was released on November 28, 2011.[3] The hardcover version was released on January 17, 2012,[4] the paperback was released on January 29, 2013.

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3 See also
4 References
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In 2210, the starship Herodotus left Earth. Onboard were Julian "Bean" Delphiki and his three infant children – Ender, Carlotta, and Cincinnatus – all of whom have Anton's Key turned. This genetic alteration, which Bean passed to his children, grants them all extremely high intelligence, but causes their bodies to grow uncontrollably, which is likely to kill them by the age of 20. Subjectively, they have been flying near light-speed for five years, but relativistic effects mean that 421 years have passed on Earth – the year is now 2631. When the family left, scientists were actively trying to find a cure for their giantism which would not diminish their intelligence. Several generations have passed, they have been forgotten, and their mother and "normal" siblings having died centuries ago. The children have only been alive for six subjective years. Bean's life has been extended by the low gravity on board the Herodotus, which allows his heart to keep beating despite his increasingly gigantic size. At 4.5 metres tall, Bean must remain in a lying position in the cargo bay so as not to over-exert himself. He controls and watches everything on the ship through his holo-top terminal, often prompting the children to have secret meetings they believe the Giant cannot hear. Bean and Ender continue to study their genetic condition in the hope of finding a cure.
In one of these meetings, the militarily-minded Cincinnatus (nicknamed "Sergeant") tries to enlist the aid of his siblings in killing their father, saying he is a drain on resources. The sensitive Carlotta (whose specialty is engineering) is unwilling to take a stance, but Ender (an expert biologist) punches Sergeant and breaks his nose for proposing such an idea, thus ending his brother's domination over the family. Ender and Carlotta tell Bean about Sergeant's plans, and Bean puts all three children in their place, reminding them they are each as intelligent as the other. Sergeant has been imagining threats to their security where there are none, because he believes the Giant means to pass his soldier role onto him. So he studies the Formic war vids and learning his father's strategy while training himself with weaponry. Ender takes on the bulk of the genetic studies by monitoring the advances made by the scientists on Earth. Carlotta, who feels slightly left behind with the genetic studies serves the family by taking care of every aspect of the spacecraft, since Bean himself is stuck in the cargo hold.
After despairing at the condition of their lives, and in the light of the discovery that their condition cannot be cured, Carlotta notices an unknown spacecraft in geosync orbit around an uncharted planet in the Goldilocks zone. Bean and his children deliberate courses of action. If they alter their course, they must slow down to turn, possibly killing Bean with the increased gravity. However, they cannot anticipate who or what is in the spacecraft; it may attack them, or they may be detrimental to the survival and progression of the human race. This hypothesis is solidified when Sergeant deduces that the ship is a Formic Ark, a colony ship that has been in flight for centuries.

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Bean sends Sergeant alone to investigate the ship, and he escapes an attack by small Formic-like animals they call "rabs". After this initial encounter, Bean reveals his full plan to his children. They must find out who is piloting this ship and attempting to terraform the planet it orbits. It was Bean's intention all along to have his children live on this planet and found their new species in safety as soon as he picked it up on radar as lying within the Goldilocks zone. Armed with Sergeant's weapons and a sedative fog spray Ender devised, Sergeant commands defenses as Carlotta leads their group to the helm with Bean in contact the whole time. The spray proves effective, and they soon find the Hive Queen's chamber to find her, and many workers, dead. Eventually they find living male Formics in one of the piloting helms.
In an attempt to communicate, Ender surrenders himself by drifting close to them in zero gravity. The male drones come close and communicate with Ender via mental images. The group learns that the Ark was sent long before Ender Wiggin, whom Bean's son is named for, wiped out the buggers. After the Queen on their ship died, the workers died without her link, yet the males lived and tried to survive and keep the ship running despite losing numbers to the feral rabs. The group strikes a deal that if the children can wipe out the rabs, they can stay with the Formics and help cultivate the planet. When Bean learns from the male drones that Ender Wiggin is carrying a queen's cocoon looking for a home, and that Formic workers do have minds of their own contrary to popular belief, he demands to speak with the Formics in order to warn Ender, despite risking his life in the journey.
Accepting that his children have achieved beyond his wildest expectations, Bean risks his life by docking with the ark's cargo hold to float down into the ecotat. Lying in the grass and basking in the artificial sunlight, Bean communes for three days with the formic males. Though the Formics think it is silly to believe the Queen would hide anything from them, Bean learns that workers could rebel against a Queen and regain their free will. After Bean slept for a while, his children wake him informing him that by studying how the Hive Queen suppresses her workers, Ender devised and administered a virus that will develop an organelle to shut off their growth genome, leaving their intelligence intact but saving them from the giantism half of Anton's Key.
With renewed hope for the future, Bean looks at the beauty around him and remember all those whom he loved and who loved him in his life. With his children's help, he stands at four and a half meters for the first time in years, and walks with belabored breathing in the sunlight. Happy for his children and for his own short but brilliant life, Bean lies down and dies in peace.
Enhanced Ebook[edit]
On March 1, 2012, an e-book version of Shadows in Flight was made available for download. It is heavily abridged, though it contains added content written by Orson Scott Card specifically for the e-book concerning Petra's hologram to her children. The Enhanced Ebook script was adapted by Jake Black. There is also artwork by Nick Greenwood included in the e-book version.
See also[edit]

Portal icon Novels portal
Concepts in the Ender's Game series
Ender in Exile
List of characters in the Ender's Game series
List of works by Orson Scott Card
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2011-07-15). "Hatrack River Forums: Shadows in Flight".
2.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2011-05-10). "Orson Scott Card's Bibliography".
3.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2011-07-15). "Hatrack River - The Official Web Site of Orson Scott Card".
4.Jump up ^ "Amazon.com: Shadows in Flight (The Shadow) (9780765332004): Orson Scott Card: Books".

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Earth Unaware

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Earth Unaware
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Author
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
July 17, 2012
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
352 (Hardcover)
ISBN
0-7653-2904-2
Followed by
Earth Afire
Earth Unaware is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston in the Ender's Game series. Published in 2012, it is the first book of a planned prequel trilogy to Ender's Game.[1][2] The novel is set before Ender Wiggin is born and tells the story of the first Formic War.[3] Earth Afire, the second book in the trilogy, was released on June 4, 2013,[4] to be followed by Earth Awakens.[5]

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Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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A clan of "free miners" living on the spaceship El Cavador is working an asteroid far out in the Kuiper Belt when they detect what appears to be an alien ship decelerating from near light speed as it approaches the solar system. Meanwhile, Lem Jukes, son and heir of the hard-driving founder of the largest mining corporation, is also in the remote region, far from the prying eyes of competitors, secretly testing a "glaser" (gravity laser) that promises to revolutionize mining. Back on Earth, Captain Wit O'Toole goes recruiting among the elite New Zealand Special Air Service for the even more select, multinational Mobile Operations Police (MOPs).
Jukes orders his ship to "bump" El Cavador from the asteroid the family is mining, as it is the only suitable one nearby for his test. During the violent collision, an El Cavador crewman is killed. The miners hack into the corporate ship's network, planting a message for Lem Jukes and downloading confidential files pertaining to the glaser. Jukes, fearful of a scandal involving the death of a free miner and the danger of the miners selling the confidential files to his competitors, sets out for Weigh Station Four, where he intends to plant a hacker to strip El Cavador's files.
El Cavador's transmission equipment having been destroyed in the bump, the crew are unable to warn another mining clan about the intruder, and can only watch helplessly as the alien pod destroys them. El Cavador rescues a few survivors. In the meantime, Victor and a few others modify a "quickship," an automated vessel normally used to send processed metals to Luna, to carry one person to warn Earth. When the pod attacks El Cavador, the men on the quickship ram and disable the pod using mining equipment. During the attack, the aliens emerge to battle the humans. Their physiology is revealed to be Formic (ant-like).
El Cavador heads to Weigh Station Four to use their laserline transmitter. As a backup, Victor volunteers to take a datacube with the evidence of the aliens' hostile intentions to Luna aboard the quickship. The journey is perilous, but their duty is clear.
Meanwhile, the Juke ship makes its way to Weigh Station Four, only to come under attack from roughnecks who recognize the crew as despised corporates. Several of the attackers are killed by Chubs, a man seemingly junior to Lem Jukes, but revealed as having been assigned by Ukko Jukes to protect him. The corporates are still able to leave behind a hacker to strip El Cavador's files, but the scheme becomes moot when the Formic ship destroys the station.
El Cavador sends a short-range, broad radio call and is able to contact the Juke ship and a Chinese mining vessel. El Cavador sends its women and children aboard the Chinese vessel, which is too small to help in the attack. The plan is to plant mining explosives along the hull of the alien ship. Unfortunately, one of them detonates early, drawing the attention of the Formics, who at first engage the humans wearing space suits, but subsequently attack without any protection. Seeing the battle go against them, Chubs withdraws Lem Jukes and his men and moves the corporate ship away, as the Formic ship destroys El Cavador.
Victor arrives at Luna, only to be largely ignored and confined for his illegal arrival. Meanwhile, Wit O'Toole to prepare his MOPs for any situation, including what he thinks is a hypothetical alien attack. Victor is eventually assigned a case worker who believes his story and helps him transmit the evidence onto the Nets.
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Victor Delgado, a young mechanic of great talent who, along with his father and a young apprentice, keeps El Cavador running
Concepción Querales, captain of El Cavador
Lem Jukes, son of mining magnate Ukko Jukes and captain of the Makarhu, a corporate mining vessel
Captain DeWitt Clinton O'Toole, commander of the Mobile Operations Police (MOPs)
Lieutenant Mazer Rackham, a Maori soldier whom O'Toole is interested in recruiting
See also[edit]

Portal icon Novels portal
The Formic Wars: Burning Earth
List of characters in the Ender's Game series
Orson Scott Card bibliography
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Barnes & Noble. "Editorial Reviews: Publishers Weekly". Retrieved 9 August 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Cassandra. "Enders Ansible". Tor Books. Retrieved 9 August 2012.-Official Fan site
3.Jump up ^ Johnston, Aaron. "Aaron Johnston Books". Retrieved 2011-12-11.
4.Jump up ^ EARTH AFIRE, the sequel to EARTH UNAWARE by me and @orsonscottcard will be released on June 4, 2013. Aaron Johnston on Twitter. October 30, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
5.Jump up ^ Title for book 3 of First Formic Trilogy will be EARTH AWAKENS Aaron Johnston on Twitter. March 15, 2013. Retrieved April 12, 2013.

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Earth Afire

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Earth Afire
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Author
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Tor Books
Publication date
June 4, 2013
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
400 (Hardcover)
ISBN
0-7653-2905-0
Preceded by
Earth Unaware
Followed by
Earth Awakens

Ender's Game series

Chronology
Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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"100 years before Ender’s Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. This is the story of the First Formic War.
Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely; not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn’t believe that until space stations and ships went up in sudden flame.
And when that happened, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move fast enough to meet the threat."[1]
Publishers Weekly review:

"Scott and Johnston explore human ignorance and compassion through a tapestry of galactic warfare in the second volume of the Formic Wars trilogy, collectively a prequel to Ender’s Game. After the independent asteroid mining ship El Cavador is attacked, Victor Delgado escapes and joins State Official Imala in warning mining magnate Ukko Jukes and Earth’s scientists of approaching hostile insectlike aliens called Formics. While diplomats seek a peaceful solution, Rena, a matriarch from El Cavador, gathers her surviving people aboard a scavenger ship, and damnable villain Lem Jukes, Ukko’s son, plans to overtake the Formic ships and defy his father’s iron grip. Against this operatic backdrop, heroic Lt. Mazer Rackham and his special forces stand alone against the deadly insectoids. Card and Johnston craft cinematically detailed environments for their space miners, thieves, and outcasts, probing the inner mechanics and conflicts of various groups. Social upheavals and political ineptitude are realized through rich characterization and brisk action, marrying the genre staple of alien invasion with conflicts of conscience."[2]
The Formic ship starts by destroying Kleopatra and a fleet of over 60 assorted ships near it. It launches three landing craft in southeast China, and the Formics use gas to defoliate the area and kill everyone. They create mountains of dead biomass near their landers.
Before the landing, Mazer Rackham has been training the Chinese military on a new aircraft, the HERC, in exchange for training on their new devices, the drill sledges, craft that can tunnel underground. During the Formic invasion, he saves Bingwen from them, but is then shot down. Bingwen uses a Medi-Assist device, voiced and then controlled by Mazer's romantic interest, Kim, to save his life, and the two set off to destroy the nearest Formic lander.
The MOPs head in as the Formics commence their invasion, and discover a new, efficient way to kill Formics by destroying their transport craft on the ground. They also head to the lander, where they save Bingwen and Mazer from a Formic attack. The lander has heavy shielding, but it doesn't extend underground. Mazer manages to find some drill sledges and HERCs for them, and they use the HERCs to bring the drill sledges into range of the lander, while Wit gets a tactical nuke to hit the lander with. They successfully attack the lander, destroying it, but one of the MOPs, Calinga, is killed by the Formics. Captain Shenzu then arrives, placing Mazer under arrest.
Victor and Imala, meanwhile, have just landed Victor on the surface of the Formic ship, using a disguised ship provided by Lem. Victor goes into the Formic ship through a gun port.
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Victor Delgado, a young mechanic of great talent who, along with his father and a young apprentice, keeps El Cavador running
Rena Delgado, Victor's Mother
Lem Jukes, son of mining magnate Ukko Jukes and captain of the Makarhu, a corporate mining vessel
Captain DeWitt Clinton O'Toole, commander of the Mobile Operations Police (MOPS)
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Bingwen, a young child whose parents and grandfather are killed in the Formic invasion.
Ukko Jukes, Lem Jukes' father
Imala Bootstamp, Victor's Luna Trade Department attorney
Captain Shenzu, a Chinese military officer
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Shadows Alive
 
Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
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Series
Ender's Game series
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
TBA
Publication date
TBA
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TBA
Preceded by
Children of the Mind, Shadows in Flight
Shadows Alive is a planned science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card in the Ender's Game series. It will link the Ender's Shadow books back to the Ender Saga.

Ender's Game series

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Earth UnawareEarth AfireEarth Awakens"Mazer in Prison""Pretty Boy""Cheater"Ender's ShadowA War of GiftsEnder's GameEnder in ExileShadow of the HegemonShadow PuppetsShadow of the GiantShadows in Flight"Investment Counselor"Speaker for the DeadXenocideChildren of the MindShadows Alive

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References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Peterson, Matthew (2009-11-12). "Orson Scott Card - Online Radio Interview with the Author". The Author Hour radio show.
2.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2011-05-10). "Orson Scott Card's Bibliography".
3.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2011-07-15). "Hatrack River Forums:Shadows in Flight".
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Ender's Game (film)

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Ender's Game
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Directed by
Gavin Hood
Produced by
Roberto Orci
Alex Kurtzman
Gigi Pritzker
Linda McDonough
Robert Chartoff
Lynn Hendee
Orson Scott Card
John Textor
Ed Ulbrich
 
Screenplay by
Gavin Hood
Based on
Ender's Game
 by Orson Scott Card
Starring
Asa Butterfield
Harrison Ford
Ben Kingsley
Viola Davis
Hailee Steinfeld
Abigail Breslin
 
Music by
Steve Jablonsky[1]
Cinematography
Donald McAlpine
Editing by
Zach Staenberg
Studio
Chartoff Productions
Taleswapper
OddLot Entertainment
K/O Paper Products
Digital Domain
 
Distributed by
Summit Entertainment
Lionsgate
Release date(s)
October 24, 2013 (Germany[2], Austria)
October 25, 2013 (United Kingdom[2])
November 1, 2013 (United States[2])
 
Running time
114 minutes[3]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$110 million[4]

 

 Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin
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Ender's Game is an upcoming American science fiction action film based on the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card. Directed and written by Gavin Hood, the film will star Asa Butterfield as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future alien invasion. The cast also includes Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Abigail Breslin, and Harrison Ford.
The film is scheduled to first be released in Germany and Austria on October 24, followed by the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 25, Australia on October 31, the United States of America and Canada on November 1, and many other countries from November throughout mid-January of 2014.[2]

Contents
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2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Filming
4 Controversy
5 Reception
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
After an alien race called the Formics (also known as the "Buggers") attacks Earth, the International Fleet prepare for the next invasion by training the best young children to find the future candidate to lead the International Fleet and fill the shoes of the legendary war hero Mazer Rackham. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy but strategically brilliant boy, is pulled out of his Earth school to join the International Fleet and attend the legendary Battle School, located in Earth orbit. After easily mastering the increasingly difficult war games, distinguishing himself and winning respect among his peers, Ender is soon ordained by Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) as the military's next great hope, resulting in his promotion to Command School. Once there, he is trained by Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) himself to lead the military into a war that will determine the future of Earth and the human race.[5]
Cast[edit]
Further information: Ender's Game characters
Asa Butterfield as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin.[6] In a 1999 interview, Orson Scott Card confirmed that Jake Lloyd was under consideration for the role. Card asked fans not to judge Lloyd based on his performance in The Phantom Menace, saying that a better script and direction would result in a better performance.[7] In July 2008, Card stated that he would like to see Nathan Gamble play Ender, and expressed regret that he was "probably too old" for the part.[8]
Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff.[9] Early in the film's development, Card considered changing Graff to a female, and recommended a "dry comic" such as Janeane Garofalo or Rosie O'Donnell for the role.[10]
Hailee Steinfeld as Petra Arkanian[11]
Abigail Breslin as Valentine Wiggin[9][11]
Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham.[12] In a 1998 interview, Card suggested Andre Braugher or Will Smith for the role.[10] Kyle Russell Clements as Young Mazer Rackham
Viola Davis as Major Gwen Anderson[13]
Aramis Knight as Bean[9]
Suraj Parthasarathy as Alai[9]
Moises Arias as Bonzo[9]
Khylin Rhambo as Dink[9]
Jimmy Pinchak as Peter Wiggin[9]
Nonso Anozie as Sergeant Dap[14]
Conor Carroll as Bernard[9]
Caleb J. Thaggard as Stilson.[5] Brendan Meyer was originally cast in the role,[15] but had to leave the production due to a scheduling conflict.[16]
Stevie Ray Dallimore as John Paul Wiggin[14]
Andrea Powell as Theresa Wiggin[14]
Brandon Soo Hoo as Fly Molo[12]
Dee Bradley Baker as TBA (voice)
Orson Scott Card as Pilot (voice cameo)[17]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Since Ender's Game was published in 1985, author Orson Scott Card had always been protective of the film rights and artistic control. Card explained that he had many opportunities through the 1980s and 1990s to sell the rights of Ender's Game to Hollywood studios, but refused when creative differences became an issue.[18] With the formation of Fresco Pictures in 1996 (which Card co-founded), the author decided to write the screenplay himself.[19]
In a 1998 interview, Orson Scott Card discussed the process of adapting the novel into a screenplay. "The first decision I made was not to pursue the Peter/Valentine subplot with the Internet, because that's just watching people type things into the computer. The second decision I made was to give that information about the surprise at the end from the start. In my script we know who Mazer Rackham really is and we know what is at stake as Ender plays his games. But Ender doesn't know, so I think the suspense is actually increased because the audience knows we're about the business of saving the world and that everything depends on this child not understanding that. We care all the more about whether he wins – and we worry that he might not want to. As we watch the adults struggle to get control of Ender, we pity him because of what's happening to him, but we want the adults to succeed. I think it makes for a much more complex and fascinating film than it would have been if I had tried to keep secrets."[10]
Card submitted a screenplay to Warner Bros. in 2003, at which time David Benioff and D. B. Weiss were hired to collaborate a new script in consulation with the then-designated director Wolfgang Petersen. Four years later, Card wrote a new script not based on any previous ones, including his own.[20]
Card announced in February 2009 that he had completed a script for Odd Lot Entertainment, and that they had begun assembling a production team.[21] In September 2010, it was announced that Gavin Hood was attached to the project, serving as both screenwriter and director.[22][23] In November 2010, Card stated that the film's storyline would be a fusion of Ender's Game and its parallel novel, Ender's Shadow, focusing on the important elements of both.[24] On January 28, 2011, it was reported that Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman would be producing the work and would begin presenting the script to prospective investors.[25]
On April 28, 2011, it was announced that Summit Entertainment picked up the film's distribution[26] and Digital Domain joined Odd Lot Entertainment in a co-production role.[27] Gavin Hood joined as director, using Hood's script adaptation,[22][23] and Donald McAlpine joined as cinematographer.[28] The Producers include creative producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman of K/O Paper Products, producers Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough of Odd Lot Entertainment, and producer John Textor of Digital Domain[29][30] Executive producers include David Coatsworth, Bill Lischak, Cliff Plumer and Ed Ulbrich.[31] The film is also being produced by Lynn Hendee of Chartoff Productions, who has worked with Card on the development of the film for over 15 years,[32] and Robert Chartoff.[6][33] In an interview with Brigham Young University newspaper The Universe, Card said that his role as co-producer was in the early stages and that the screenplay is 100% Hood's.[32]
Filming[edit]
Production began in New Orleans on February 27, 2012.[34][35] The film is slated for a November 1, 2013, release date.[36]
Controversy[edit]
Orson Scott Card's criticism of gay marriage prompted the organization GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) to issue a critical statement suggesting that the buying public may not "support his creative endeavors".[37]
In July 2013, the group Geeks Out launched a website campaign to boycott the film.[38][39] Mark Umbach, a public relations expert not associated with the film, commented "there is a huge LGBT audience for science fiction, and it's going to be hard for those fans to separate Card’s comments from his work."[37] Andy Lewis and Borys Kit of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "The new scrutiny of Card’s views could be a problem for the $110 million 'Ender’s Game' movie".[40][41]
In response to the boycott, Card released a statement in July to Entertainment Weekly: "Ender’s Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984. With the recent Supreme Court ruling, the gay marriage issue becomes moot. The Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution will, sooner or later, give legal force in every state to any marriage contract recognized by any other state. Now it will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute."[42][43][44]
Producer Roberto Orci responded in Entertainment Weekly in March that he wasn't aware of Card's views when he took on the film adaptation: "It didn't occur to me to do background checks on anybody." He said that "the movie should be judged on its message, not the personal beliefs of the original author," who had minimal involvement in the film. He also said that "If it's on the screen, then I think it's fair game."[45] Lionsgate Entertainment released a statement distancing themselves from Card, writing "As proud longtime supporters of the LGBT community [...] we obviously do not agree with the personal views of Orson Scott Card and those of the National Organization for Marriage",[46] and that Card's views are "completely irrelevant" to the film adaptation.[47]
Actor Harrison Ford does not consider Card's view an issue: "I am aware of his statements admitting that the question of gay marriage is a battle that he lost and he admits that he lost it. I think we all know that we’ve all won. That humanity has won. And I think that’s the end of the story."[48]
Reception[edit]
Following early reviews of the film, aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes reports that 71% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 21 reviews, with an average score of 5.7/10.[49] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the film has a score of 59 based on seven reviews, which is considered to be "mixed or average".[50]
See also[edit]
List of films featuring space stations
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Steve Jablonsky Takes Over Scoring Duties on ‘Ender’s Game’". Retrieved 2013-01-30.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d IMDb: Release dates for Ender's Game Linked 2013-05-14
3.Jump up ^ "ENDER'S GAME (12A)". E1 Films. British Board of Film Classification. September 30, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
4.Jump up ^ A Movie Mogul Rising
5.^ Jump up to: a b "'Full movie synopsis released for Ender's Game'".
6.^ Jump up to: a b Sneider, Jeff (2011-11-29). "Asa Butterfield locks 'Ender's Game'". Variety.
7.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (1999). "Talk City Chat". Hatrack River. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
8.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (July 20, 2008). "Mamma Mia! and The Dark Knight - Uncle Orson Reviews Everything". Hatrack.com. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
9.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Sneider, Jeff (December 21, 2011). "Harrison Ford locked for Ender's Game: OddLot's sci-fi tentpole gains trio of Oscar nominees". Variety.
10.^ Jump up to: a b c Nichoson, Scott (1998). "Interviews - CARD'S GAME: An Interview With Orson Scott Card". Hatrack.com. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
11.^ Jump up to: a b "Harrison Ford & Abigail Breslin round-off stellar Ender's Game cast".
12.^ Jump up to: a b Ender's Game is on track
13.Jump up ^ "Viola Davis Joins Cast of Ender's Game Film - Theater News - Feb 2, 2012". Theatermania.com. 2012-02-02. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
14.^ Jump up to: a b c Schaefer, Sandy (2012-02-21). "'Ender's Game' gains three new cast members". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
15.Jump up ^ Nede, Jethro (2011-12-16). "'Ender's Game' Casts Canadian Teen Star Brendan Meyer (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
16.Jump up ^ Taalcon (March 7, 2012). "CONFIRMED: Stilson Recast in Ender's Game film". Ender's Ansible. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
17.Jump up ^ Oliver, Glen "Merrick" (May 17, 2012). "So Orson Scott Card Visited The Set Of The ENDER'S GAME Movie...". Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
18.Jump up ^ Alicia Lozano (2009-01-05). "Orson Scott Card and his world of Ender". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
19.Jump up ^ Paul Cannon (2002-05-13). "The Game Is Afoot". IGN. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
20.Jump up ^ "Card Talks Ender's Game Movie". "IGN Entertainment, Inc.". April 18, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
21.Jump up ^ "Movie production team being assembled". "Taleswapper, Inc". February 25, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
22.^ Jump up to: a b "Gavin Hood Attached to Ender's Game". "comingsoon.net". September 21, 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
23.^ Jump up to: a b Zeitchik, Steven (September 20, 2010). "Gavin Hood looks to play 'Ender's Game'". Los Angeles Times.
24.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (November 3, 2010). "Conversations / Live Q&A: Orson Scott Card". Washington Post.
25.Jump up ^ "Kurtzman and Orci Producing 'Ender's Game'". Slashfilm. January 28, 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
26.Jump up ^ Gallagher, Brian. "Ender's Game Lands at Summit Entertainment". MovieWeb.
27.Jump up ^ McNary, Dave (Apr. 28, 2011). "Summit plays 'Ender's Game'". Variety.
28.Jump up ^ Caranicas, Peter (2011-12-13). "Bookings & signings". Variety.
29.Jump up ^ "First Look at Ender's Game starring Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield!". Movie Jungles Upcoming-Movies.com.
30.Jump up ^ Cieply, Michael (January 14, 2013). "A Movie Mogul Rising". The New York Times. p. B1. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
31.Jump up ^ "First Look at Ender's Game starring Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield!". Movie Jungles Upcoming-Movies.com.
32.^ Jump up to: a b Lawrence, Bryce (July 16, 2013). "Orson Scott Card: Praise for work of ‘Ender’s Game’ director". The Digital Universe. Brigham Young University.
33.Jump up ^ "Kurtzman and Orci Producing 'Ender's Game'". Slashfilm. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
34.Jump up ^ Christine (2012-03-01). "‘Ender’s Game’ begins filming at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans". Onlocationvacations.com. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
35.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game Actually Begins Production". I Am Rogue. February 29, 2012. Retrieved March 1, 2012.
36.Jump up ^ Fleming, Mike. "‘Ender’s Game’ Release Pushed Back To November 1, 2013". Deadline.
37.^ Jump up to: a b Blauvelt, Christian (March 4, 2013). "'Enders Game': How Author Orson Scott Card's Anti-Gay Views Could Affect Its Success". Hollywood.com. Retrieved 2013-04-19. "Several experts say Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card, also credited as a producer on the film, could pose a major problem for Summit as it begins its publicity campaign."
38.Jump up ^ Child, Ben (July 9, 2013). "Activists call for Ender's Game boycott over author's anti-gay views". The Guardian. Retrieved July 10, 2013. "US group Geeks Out launches 'Skip Ender's Game' website, citing novelist Orson Scott Card's opposition to gay marriage"
39.Jump up ^ Quinn, Annalisa (July 10, 2013). "Book News: 'Ender's Game' Author Responds To Boycott Threats". NPR. Retrieved July 10, 2013. "The queer geek group Geeks OUT is organizing boycotts and "Skip Ender's Game" events in several U.S. cities because of Card's views on homosexuality."
40.Jump up ^ Lewis, Andy; Kit, Borys. "'Ender's Game' Author's Anti-Gay Views Pose Risks for Film". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2013-04-19.
41.Jump up ^ Romano, Aja (May 7, 2013). "Orson Scott Card’s long history of homophobia". Salon. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
42.Jump up ^ Smith, Grady (July 8, 2013). "INSIDE MOVIES 'Ender's Game' author Orson Scott Card responds to critics: The gay marriage issue is 'moot' — EXCLUSIVE". Entertainment Weekly.
43.Jump up ^ Edidin, Rachel (July 9, 2013). "Orson Scott Card Responds to Ender’s Game Boycott With Ironic Plea for ‘Tolerance’". [[Wired (magazine)|]]. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
44.Jump up ^ Sacks, Ethan (July 9, 2013). "‘Ender’s Game’ author Orson Scott Card, longtime opponent of same-sex marriage, says issue is now ‘moot’". New York Daily News. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
45.Jump up ^ Boucher, Geoff (March 15, 2013). "The 'Ender's Game' controversy". Entertainment Weekly.
46.Jump up ^ Deutsch, Lindsay (July 12, 2013). "Lionsgate responds to calls for 'Ender's Game' boycott". USA Today. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
47.Jump up ^ Lewis, Andy (July 12, 2013). "Lionsgate Calls 'Ender's Game' Author's Anti-Gay Views 'Completely Irrelevant'". Hollywood Reporter.
48.Jump up ^ Harrison Ford on 'Ender's Game' controversy: 'Not an issue for me'
49.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
50.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game Reviews - Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
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Official media sitesOfficial website
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Movie databasesEnder's Game at the Internet Movie Database
Ender's Game at AllRovi
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Ender's Game (film)

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Ender's Game
Ender's Game poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
 
Directed by
Gavin Hood
Produced by
Roberto Orci
Alex Kurtzman
Gigi Pritzker
Linda McDonough
Robert Chartoff
Lynn Hendee
Orson Scott Card
John Textor
Ed Ulbrich
 
Screenplay by
Gavin Hood
Based on
Ender's Game
 by Orson Scott Card
Starring
Asa Butterfield
Harrison Ford
Ben Kingsley
Viola Davis
Hailee Steinfeld
Abigail Breslin
 
Music by
Steve Jablonsky[1]
Cinematography
Donald McAlpine
Editing by
Zach Staenberg
Studio
Chartoff Productions
Taleswapper
OddLot Entertainment
K/O Paper Products
Digital Domain
 
Distributed by
Summit Entertainment
Lionsgate
Release date(s)
October 24, 2013 (Germany[2], Austria)
October 25, 2013 (United Kingdom[2])
November 1, 2013 (United States[2])
 
Running time
114 minutes[3]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$110 million[4]

 

 Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin
 in a screenshot from film's official trailer
Ender's Game is an upcoming American science fiction action film based on the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card. Directed and written by Gavin Hood, the film will star Asa Butterfield as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future alien invasion. The cast also includes Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Abigail Breslin, and Harrison Ford.
The film is scheduled to first be released in Germany and Austria on October 24, followed by the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 25, Australia on October 31, the United States of America and Canada on November 1, and many other countries from November throughout mid-January of 2014.[2]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Filming
4 Controversy
5 Reception
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
After an alien race called the Formics (also known as the "Buggers") attacks Earth, the International Fleet prepare for the next invasion by training the best young children to find the future candidate to lead the International Fleet and fill the shoes of the legendary war hero Mazer Rackham. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy but strategically brilliant boy, is pulled out of his Earth school to join the International Fleet and attend the legendary Battle School, located in Earth orbit. After easily mastering the increasingly difficult war games, distinguishing himself and winning respect among his peers, Ender is soon ordained by Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) as the military's next great hope, resulting in his promotion to Command School. Once there, he is trained by Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) himself to lead the military into a war that will determine the future of Earth and the human race.[5]
Cast[edit]
Further information: Ender's Game characters
Asa Butterfield as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin.[6] In a 1999 interview, Orson Scott Card confirmed that Jake Lloyd was under consideration for the role. Card asked fans not to judge Lloyd based on his performance in The Phantom Menace, saying that a better script and direction would result in a better performance.[7] In July 2008, Card stated that he would like to see Nathan Gamble play Ender, and expressed regret that he was "probably too old" for the part.[8]
Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff.[9] Early in the film's development, Card considered changing Graff to a female, and recommended a "dry comic" such as Janeane Garofalo or Rosie O'Donnell for the role.[10]
Hailee Steinfeld as Petra Arkanian[11]
Abigail Breslin as Valentine Wiggin[9][11]
Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham.[12] In a 1998 interview, Card suggested Andre Braugher or Will Smith for the role.[10] Kyle Russell Clements as Young Mazer Rackham
Viola Davis as Major Gwen Anderson[13]
Aramis Knight as Bean[9]
Suraj Parthasarathy as Alai[9]
Moises Arias as Bonzo[9]
Khylin Rhambo as Dink[9]
Jimmy Pinchak as Peter Wiggin[9]
Nonso Anozie as Sergeant Dap[14]
Conor Carroll as Bernard[9]
Caleb J. Thaggard as Stilson.[5] Brendan Meyer was originally cast in the role,[15] but had to leave the production due to a scheduling conflict.[16]
Stevie Ray Dallimore as John Paul Wiggin[14]
Andrea Powell as Theresa Wiggin[14]
Brandon Soo Hoo as Fly Molo[12]
Dee Bradley Baker as TBA (voice)
Orson Scott Card as Pilot (voice cameo)[17]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Since Ender's Game was published in 1985, author Orson Scott Card had always been protective of the film rights and artistic control. Card explained that he had many opportunities through the 1980s and 1990s to sell the rights of Ender's Game to Hollywood studios, but refused when creative differences became an issue.[18] With the formation of Fresco Pictures in 1996 (which Card co-founded), the author decided to write the screenplay himself.[19]
In a 1998 interview, Orson Scott Card discussed the process of adapting the novel into a screenplay. "The first decision I made was not to pursue the Peter/Valentine subplot with the Internet, because that's just watching people type things into the computer. The second decision I made was to give that information about the surprise at the end from the start. In my script we know who Mazer Rackham really is and we know what is at stake as Ender plays his games. But Ender doesn't know, so I think the suspense is actually increased because the audience knows we're about the business of saving the world and that everything depends on this child not understanding that. We care all the more about whether he wins – and we worry that he might not want to. As we watch the adults struggle to get control of Ender, we pity him because of what's happening to him, but we want the adults to succeed. I think it makes for a much more complex and fascinating film than it would have been if I had tried to keep secrets."[10]
Card submitted a screenplay to Warner Bros. in 2003, at which time David Benioff and D. B. Weiss were hired to collaborate a new script in consulation with the then-designated director Wolfgang Petersen. Four years later, Card wrote a new script not based on any previous ones, including his own.[20]
Card announced in February 2009 that he had completed a script for Odd Lot Entertainment, and that they had begun assembling a production team.[21] In September 2010, it was announced that Gavin Hood was attached to the project, serving as both screenwriter and director.[22][23] In November 2010, Card stated that the film's storyline would be a fusion of Ender's Game and its parallel novel, Ender's Shadow, focusing on the important elements of both.[24] On January 28, 2011, it was reported that Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman would be producing the work and would begin presenting the script to prospective investors.[25]
On April 28, 2011, it was announced that Summit Entertainment picked up the film's distribution[26] and Digital Domain joined Odd Lot Entertainment in a co-production role.[27] Gavin Hood joined as director, using Hood's script adaptation,[22][23] and Donald McAlpine joined as cinematographer.[28] The Producers include creative producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman of K/O Paper Products, producers Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough of Odd Lot Entertainment, and producer John Textor of Digital Domain[29][30] Executive producers include David Coatsworth, Bill Lischak, Cliff Plumer and Ed Ulbrich.[31] The film is also being produced by Lynn Hendee of Chartoff Productions, who has worked with Card on the development of the film for over 15 years,[32] and Robert Chartoff.[6][33] In an interview with Brigham Young University newspaper The Universe, Card said that his role as co-producer was in the early stages and that the screenplay is 100% Hood's.[32]
Filming[edit]
Production began in New Orleans on February 27, 2012.[34][35] The film is slated for a November 1, 2013, release date.[36]
Controversy[edit]
Orson Scott Card's criticism of gay marriage prompted the organization GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) to issue a critical statement suggesting that the buying public may not "support his creative endeavors".[37]
In July 2013, the group Geeks Out launched a website campaign to boycott the film.[38][39] Mark Umbach, a public relations expert not associated with the film, commented "there is a huge LGBT audience for science fiction, and it's going to be hard for those fans to separate Card’s comments from his work."[37] Andy Lewis and Borys Kit of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "The new scrutiny of Card’s views could be a problem for the $110 million 'Ender’s Game' movie".[40][41]
In response to the boycott, Card released a statement in July to Entertainment Weekly: "Ender’s Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984. With the recent Supreme Court ruling, the gay marriage issue becomes moot. The Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution will, sooner or later, give legal force in every state to any marriage contract recognized by any other state. Now it will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute."[42][43][44]
Producer Roberto Orci responded in Entertainment Weekly in March that he wasn't aware of Card's views when he took on the film adaptation: "It didn't occur to me to do background checks on anybody." He said that "the movie should be judged on its message, not the personal beliefs of the original author," who had minimal involvement in the film. He also said that "If it's on the screen, then I think it's fair game."[45] Lionsgate Entertainment released a statement distancing themselves from Card, writing "As proud longtime supporters of the LGBT community [...] we obviously do not agree with the personal views of Orson Scott Card and those of the National Organization for Marriage",[46] and that Card's views are "completely irrelevant" to the film adaptation.[47]
Actor Harrison Ford does not consider Card's view an issue: "I am aware of his statements admitting that the question of gay marriage is a battle that he lost and he admits that he lost it. I think we all know that we’ve all won. That humanity has won. And I think that’s the end of the story."[48]
Reception[edit]
Following early reviews of the film, aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes reports that 71% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 21 reviews, with an average score of 5.7/10.[49] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the film has a score of 59 based on seven reviews, which is considered to be "mixed or average".[50]
See also[edit]
List of films featuring space stations
References[edit]
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21.Jump up ^ "Movie production team being assembled". "Taleswapper, Inc". February 25, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
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38.Jump up ^ Child, Ben (July 9, 2013). "Activists call for Ender's Game boycott over author's anti-gay views". The Guardian. Retrieved July 10, 2013. "US group Geeks Out launches 'Skip Ender's Game' website, citing novelist Orson Scott Card's opposition to gay marriage"
39.Jump up ^ Quinn, Annalisa (July 10, 2013). "Book News: 'Ender's Game' Author Responds To Boycott Threats". NPR. Retrieved July 10, 2013. "The queer geek group Geeks OUT is organizing boycotts and "Skip Ender's Game" events in several U.S. cities because of Card's views on homosexuality."
40.Jump up ^ Lewis, Andy; Kit, Borys. "'Ender's Game' Author's Anti-Gay Views Pose Risks for Film". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2013-04-19.
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43.Jump up ^ Edidin, Rachel (July 9, 2013). "Orson Scott Card Responds to Ender’s Game Boycott With Ironic Plea for ‘Tolerance’". [[Wired (magazine)|]]. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
44.Jump up ^ Sacks, Ethan (July 9, 2013). "‘Ender’s Game’ author Orson Scott Card, longtime opponent of same-sex marriage, says issue is now ‘moot’". New York Daily News. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
45.Jump up ^ Boucher, Geoff (March 15, 2013). "The 'Ender's Game' controversy". Entertainment Weekly.
46.Jump up ^ Deutsch, Lindsay (July 12, 2013). "Lionsgate responds to calls for 'Ender's Game' boycott". USA Today. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
47.Jump up ^ Lewis, Andy (July 12, 2013). "Lionsgate Calls 'Ender's Game' Author's Anti-Gay Views 'Completely Irrelevant'". Hollywood Reporter.
48.Jump up ^ Harrison Ford on 'Ender's Game' controversy: 'Not an issue for me'
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External links[edit]
Official media sitesOfficial website
"Ender's Game" on Google+
"Ender's Game" on Tumblr
"Ender's Game" on Twitter
Ender's Game (film)'s channel on YouTube
Movie databasesEnder's Game at the Internet Movie Database
Ender's Game at AllRovi
Ender's Game at Box Office Mojo
Ender's Game at Metacritic
Ender's Game at Rotten Tomatoes
Other linksBillington, Alex (July 24, 2013). "Interview: 'Ender's Game' Director Gavin Hood & Producer Bob Orci"". firstshowing.net.

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