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The Ender's Game series (often referred to as the Enderverse or the Ender saga) is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card. The series started with the novelette "Ender's Game", which was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. It currently consists of twelve novels, twelve short stories, and 47 comic issues. The first two novels in the series, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won both the Hugo[1][2] and Nebula[1][3] Awards, and were among the most influential science fiction novels of the 1980s.
The series is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known colloquially as "Buggers" but more formally as "Formics". The central character, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, is one of the child soldiers trained at Battle School (and eventually Command School) to be the future leaders of the protection of Earth.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Ender series
2 Shadow saga
3 The First Formic War
4 Novels in the series 4.1 Publication date
4.2 Chronological order
5 Short stories in the series
6 Comic books in the series
7 Ender's Game film
8 The Authorized Ender Companion
9 Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Ender series[edit]
Card first wrote Ender's Game as a novelette, but went back and expanded it into a novel so he could use Ender as a main character in another novel, Speaker for the Dead. That novel takes place three thousand and two years after Ender's Game, although due to relativistic space travel, Ender himself (now using his full name, Andrew) is only 36, making him only 25 years older than he was at the end of the Formic Wars.
While the first novel concerned itself with armies and space warfare, Speaker for the Dead and its two sequels Xenocide and Children of the Mind are more philosophical in nature. They deal with the difficult relationship between the humans and the "Piggies" (or "Pequeninos"), and Andrew's (Ender's) attempts to stop another xenocide from happening.
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story was released in October 2007.[4] It is set during Ender's first year in Battle School.
A prequel to Speaker for the Dead named Ender in Exile was released in November 2008. It involves Ender's journey to the first colony, as well as his meeting a character from the Shadow saga, effectively wrapping up the final plotline of the parallel series.
Shadow saga[edit]
Starting with Ender's Shadow, four more novels have been released which tell the story of the people whom Ender left behind – this has been dubbed the Shadow saga (also known as the "Bean Quartet"). Ender's Shadow is a parallel novel to Ender's Game, telling many of the same events from the perspective of Bean, a mostly peripheral character in Ender's Game, while Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant tell the story of the struggle for world dominance after the Bugger War, in which the Battle School children, as well as Ender's brother, Peter Wiggin, are involved.
A sequel novel to Shadow of the Giant named Shadows in Flight further introduces Bean's children.
Shadows Alive, a future sequel, takes place after both Children of the Mind and Shadows in Flight, tying up the two series, and explaining some unanswered questions.
The First Formic War[edit]
Card and Aaron Johnston have planned a trilogy to cover events in the First Formic War. Earth Unaware, a prequel to the entire Ender series, was released on July 17, 2012. Earth Afire, was released on June 4, 2013,[5] to be followed by Earth Awakens.[6]
Novels in the series[edit]
To date, there are six novels in the Ender's Game series and five novels in the Shadow series. According to Card, there is no strictly preferred order of reading them, except that Xenocide should be read right before Children of the Mind.[7] The books can be read in the order in which they were originally written or in chronological order.
Publication date[edit]
1.Ender's Game (1985) – Nebula Award winner, 1985;[1] Hugo Award winner, 1986;[1] Locus Award nominee, 1986[1]
2.Speaker for the Dead (1986) – Nebula Award winner, 1986;[1] Hugo & Locus Awards winner, 1987;[1] Campbell Award nominee, 1987[1]
3.Xenocide (1991) – Hugo and Locus Awards nominee, 1992[8]
4.Children of the Mind (1996)
5.Ender's Shadow (1999) – Shortlisted for a Locus Award, 2000[9]
6.Shadow of the Hegemon (2001) – Shortlisted for a Locus Award, 2002[10]
7.Shadow Puppets (2002)
8.First Meetings (2002) – short story collection
9.Shadow of the Giant (2005)
10.A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)
11.Ender in Exile (2008)
12.Shadows in Flight (2012)
13.Earth Unaware (2012)
14.Earth Afire (2013)
15.Earth Awakens (2014, final book in the Formic Wars trilogy)
16.Shadows Alive (forthcoming, originally planned as part of "Shadows in Flight")
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1.Earth Unaware
2.Earth Afire
3.Earth Awakens
4.First Meetings
5.Ender's Game
6.Ender's Shadow (Note: The events of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow take place in roughly the same time period.)
7.A War of Gifts (Note: This takes place during Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow.)
8.Shadow of the Hegemon
9.Shadow Puppets
10.Shadow of the Giant
11.Ender in Exile (Note: Beginning takes place during Shadow of the Hegemon and through Shadow of the Giant)
12.Shadows in Flight
13.Speaker for the Dead
14.Xenocide
15.Children of the Mind
16.Shadows Alive
Short stories in the series[edit]
Main article: List of Ender's Game series short stories
Comic books in the series[edit]
Main article: Ender's Game (comics)
Comic books in the Ender Universe are currently being published by Marvel Comics.
Ender's Game film[edit]
Main article: Ender's Game (film)
The movie Ender's Game is set to release in the UK on October 25, 2013 and in the USA on November 1, 2013. The first script was based on two installments of the Ender series, Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, when optioned by Warner Brothers, but was adapted to focus exclusively on Ender's Game when purchased by Lionsgate.[11] The cast includes Harrison Ford, Abigail Breslin, Ben Kingsley, and Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin. The film will be directed by Gavin Hood.[12][13]
The Authorized Ender Companion[edit]
Written by Jake Black, The Authorized Ender Companion is "the indispensable guide to the universe of Ender's Game."[14] Sections in this book include: The Ender Encyclopedia, Ender's Timeline, Ender's Family Tree by Andrew Lindsay, Getting Ender Right: A Look at the Ender's Game Screenplay Development by Aaron Johnston, and The Technology of Ender's Game by Stephen Sywak. The majority of the book consists of encyclopedia references to the events, characters, locations, and technology found in the Ender's Game series up to the publication of Ender in Exile.
The book is notable for having new and behind the scenes information on certain topics such as Battle School Slang, The Look of the Formics, The History of Hyrum Graff, Ender and Valentine's Travels, and Mazer Rackham's Spaceship.
Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game[edit]
Ender's World contains 14 essays from Science Fiction and Young Adult writers, as well as military strategists and others about various aspects of Ender’s Game. The book includes an introduction[15] by Orson Scott Card, who edited Ender's World and answers from many fan-submitted Enderverse questions from the Smart Pop Books Website.[16] The following essays are included in the compilation:
"How It Should Have Ended" by Eric James Stone[17]
"The Monster's Heart" by John Brown[18]
"The Cost of Breaking the Rules" by Mary Robinette Kowal[19]
"Winning and Losing in Ender’s Game" by Hilari Bell[20]
"Parallax Regained" by David Lubar, Alison S. Myers[21]
"Mirror, Mirror" by Alethea Kontis[22]
"Size Matters" by Janis Ian[23]
"Rethinking the Child Hero" by Aaron Johnston[24]
"A Teenless World" by Mette Ivie Harrison[25]
"Ender on Leadership" by Colonel Tom Ruby[26]
"Ender Wiggin, USMC" by John F. Schmitt[27]
"The Price of Our Inheritance" by Neal Shusterman[28]
"If the Formics Love Their Children Too" by Ken Scholes[29]
"Ender's Game: A Guide to Life" by Matt Nix[30]
See also[edit]

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Ender's Game (film)
List of characters in the Ender's Game series
List of works by Orson Scott Card
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h "1986 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
2.Jump up ^ "1987 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
3.Jump up ^ "1985 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
4.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card at Fantastic Fiction
5.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.
6.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.
7.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott. "Question: What's the 'preferred' order of reading the Ender series?". Frequently Asked Questions. Hatrack.com. Retrieved 2007-05-15.
8.Jump up ^ "1992 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
9.Jump up ^ "2000 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
10.Jump up ^ "2002 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
11.Jump up ^ http://www.endersansible.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/7-18-2013-Interview.mp3
12.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game". Retrieved 2013-01-22.
13.Jump up ^ Ender's Shadow Audiobook, author's epilogue
14.Jump up ^ Black, Jake (2009). The Authorized Ender Companion. Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-7653-2063-6.
15.Jump up ^ Introduction: Ender's World
16.Jump up ^ Ask Orson Scott Card a question about Ender’s Game!
17.Jump up ^ "How It Should Have Ended" by Eric James Stone
18.Jump up ^ "The Monster's Heart" by John Brown
19.Jump up ^ "The Cost of Breaking the Rules" by Mary Robinette
20.Jump up ^ "Winning and Losing in Ender’s Game" by Hilari Bell
21.Jump up ^ "Parallax Regained" by David Lubar, Alison S. Myers
22.Jump up ^ "Mirror, Mirror" by Alethea Kontis
23.Jump up ^ "Size Matters" by Janis Ian
24.Jump up ^ "Rethinking the Child Hero" by Aaron Johnston
25.Jump up ^ "A Teenless World" by Mette Ivie Harrison
26.Jump up ^ "Ender on Leadership" by Colonel Tom Ruby
27.Jump up ^ "Ender Wiggin, USMC" by John F. Schmitt
28.Jump up ^ "The Price of Our Inheritance" by Neal Shusterman
29.Jump up ^ "If the Formics Love Their Children Too" by Ken Scholes
30.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game: A Guide to Life" by Matt Nix
External links[edit]
The official Orson Scott Card website
The Ender Quartet, Ender's Shadow, and Ender series pages at Tor Books
The Ender Saga
Ender's Universe series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Hollywood Movie : 'Ender's Game' Featurette: Building Ender's World

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Hegemon of Earth

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In the Ender's Game and Shadow series by Orson Scott Card, the Hegemon is the ruler of the planet. Even though the planet is still divided into countries, the Hegemon has power over them all.
Peter Wiggin, Ender Wiggin's brother, becomes the Hegemon at the conclusion of Ender's Game. The Shadow series covers the years that Peter serves in this position. In the novel, the position of Hegemon was the political leader of Earth. The Hegemon, along with the positions of Polemarch (responsible for the International Fleet of space warships), and the Strategos (responsible for the overall command of solar system defense), was one of the three most powerful people alive. The defeat of the Formics by Ender changed this position. Bean was given the title of Strategos by Peter Wiggin after he assumed the Hegemony.
The Hegemon is also the title of a fictional book written by character Andrew "Ender" Wiggin about his brother Peter, usually published with The Hive Queen by the same author. Both works are a result of Ender's turning into a Speaker for the Dead after the end of the Formic War.

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Ender's Game (1985)·
 Speaker for the Dead (1986)·
 Xenocide (1991)·
 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
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Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
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 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
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List of Ender's Game series organizations

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"Battle School" redirects here. For the Dad's Army episode, see Battle School (Dad's Army episode).
This is a list of organizations in the fictional Ender's Game series universe.



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  [hide] 1 International Fleet 1.1 Battle School
1.2 Command School
2 Post-Ender's Game 2.1 Governments in the Enderverse 2.1.1 The Hegemony
2.1.2 Starways Congress
2.1.3 Free People of Earth

International Fleet[edit]
The International Fleet (often shortened to I.F. or IF) is an organization created to protect Earth from the alien Formics. The International Fleet was formed by the governments of Earth immediately following the First Formic invasion. The Fleet was created in order to represent a united front against the Formica and mount a defense against another possible invasion. They say that if one takes one step on the planet... the human race is as good as finished.
The Fleet has two commanding officials, the Polemarch, head of the Fleet and in control of ship movements, and the Strategos, at the head of the department of strategy.
In Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, the responsibilities of the Fleet include the active recruitment of child leaders for Battle School. These children are taken to Battle School and molded into leaders for the International Fleet's armies in space. The Fleet implemented a system of monitors that were mounted on children's necks in order to watch their activity and determine whether they were eligible for Battle School.
Following the success of Ender Wiggin and his fellow recruited commanders in destroying the Formics, the International Fleet lacked a purpose and the Polemarch attempted to take over the Fleet and take all of the members of Ender's jeesh, his battle comrades, into custody. The coup proved unsuccessful due to the efforts of the two writers working under the pseudonyms of Locke and Demosthenes as well as jeesh member Julian "Bean" Delphiki.
Shortly after the attempted coup, the office of Strategos was abolished and former Strategos, Admiral Chamrajnagar, became the new Polemarch. The Fleet adopted a non-intervention policy on Earth except when the sovereignty of the Fleet is threatened or attacked.
The Fleet sent all of the members of Ender's jeesh to their respective countries on Earth. Political writer Locke warns that the Fleet should not send Battle School grads home for fear of nationalist wars breaking out between countries with armies led by their Battle School graduates or one country attempting to kidnap and hoard all of the Battle School graduates for their own army. However, only Ender, the leader of the jeesh, was not sent home but was instead sent to colonize one of the first of the former Formic homeworlds. Following their victorious return to Earth, the members of Ender's jeesh, except for Bean, are all kidnapped by Achilles de Flandres working for Russia. Admiral Chamrajnagar garnered most of the blame for not heeding Locke's warning. In return, the Admiral threatened to reveal the true identities of Locke and Demosthenes but later rescinded that threat.
Battle School[edit]
Battle School is a military academy.
In Card's fictional future universe, humanity is at war with an alien species known as the Formics, or, colloquially, buggers. Battle School is the training ground for the future leaders of Earth's war effort—most notably Ender Wiggin and Bean. At the school, students undergo a rigorous curriculum, designed to teach military strategy and tactics. As befits an elite school, only the very best and brightest students are taken. Prospective students must undergo invasive monitoring, and a battery of tests, to see if they are suitable for the academy.
Students are generally taken to Battle School at a very young age—5 or 6 years old. The common age of "graduation" is usually 12. While at Battle School, they are taught academic subjects; especially a heavy grounding in mathematics and science, a setup for work in space. For instance, Card describes Ender as learning trigonometry which, in the United States, is not taught until high school.
However, the academic work is not the complete focus of Battle School. Rather, the true evaluation of the students occurs in battle simulations which are run by the school's instructors. The students are divided into 41-person armies, most named after an animal (real or mythological). They fight mock battles in null gravity, armed with harmless lasers and suits that freeze when hit with a laser shot. These battles are used to test the tactical aptitude of the students. Their performance is used to evaluate their progress. As such, the student body places a great weight on the standings in these games, a perception which is encouraged by instructors. The object of the game is supposedly to 'destroy' or freeze all the enemy soldiers and then pass through the gate from which the enemy had entered. Ender's unconventional tactics somewhat subverted this victory condition. To pass through the gate, four soldiers must touch their helmets to each corner of the enemy gate, while another victorious soldier floats through.
List of Battle School Armies.
Asp
Badger
Condor
Centipede
Dragon
Ferret
Flame
Griffin
Hound
Leopard
Manticore
Phoenix
Rabbit
Rat
Salamander
Scorpion
Spider
Squirrel
Tide
Tiger
Wave
Command School[edit]
Command School is an advanced training facility that appears in Ender's Game and is located inside the asteroid Eros. The facility is a labyrinth of winding tunnels and claustrophobic rooms, captured from the Formics in the First Invasion.
Ender Wiggin is sent to Command School prematurely, told that this was to be the place in which he would complete his training. Ender is instructed in highly advanced combat tactics by none other than Mazer Rackham, the hero of the Second Bugger War. Ender is introduced to a virtual reality game that simulates every aspect of space combat. After quickly defeating the computer, Ender is told that he is to be pitted against Rackham. Unbeknownst to him, he is in reality commanding squadrons of starships sent from Earth years ago to launch a pre-emptive strike on the bugger homeworld.
After progressively harder and more draining "tests", Ender's team reaches the final world, with their ancient fleet against the thousands of Formic ships remaining—and all their queens. Launching a desperate, hopeless attack, Ender's forces reach the planet and launch their "Dr. Devices", which combined with the mass of the planet, causes an explosion which destroys everything—the few human ships remaining, the remaining Formic ships, and the planet itself. In the moment of victory, only then is he informed that the "game" was real, and that he just destroyed the Bugger race. Ender, already stretched beyond his limits, cannot take this news and collapses into a coma.
Ender eventually leaves Command School, and ventures to an uninhabited bugger colony to begin his life anew.
Post-Ender's Game[edit]
There are a number of organizations that appear in novels after Ender's Game.
Governments in the Enderverse[edit]
There are three primary governments in the Ender series. The first (listed in Ender's Game) is the Hegemony, a futuristic mix of 1984's Big Brother.The second is an interstellar government known as Starways Congress and American formed republic govermerment The third is a government on Earth unified under Peter Wiggin as FPE.
The Hegemony[edit]
After the events of the first invasion (circa. pre-Ender's Game), the world unified against the buggers in an alliance termed the Hegemony. It consisted of three offices: the Hegemon, Strategos, and Polemarch. However, the Hegemony only had power and influence as long as the Buggers posed a threat. After the end of the Third Invasion, the Hegemony lost influence as various power blocs on Earth began jockeying for influence and territory. For five days after Ender's final battle, the League War raged, which was finally ended by the Locke Proposal, written by Peter Wiggin.
Starways Congress[edit]
Starways Congress is the fictional interstellar government body in Speaker for the Dead and its sequels. It was established years after Ender's Xenocide in Ender's Game. It then re-established the calendar based on the founding of the Congress. Starways Congress was formed some time before the colonization of the Hundred Worlds, over a timespan from Ender in Exile to Speaker For the Dead. In the series, it is an interstellar government superpower which was formed by United States of America after they defeated the Free People of Earth in a war. It becomes the primary antagonist in the events of Speaker For the Dead. It consists of chairmen that vote on issues, like a Democracy. It ruled by controlling the ansible. Various groups (nationalities, ethnic groups, etc.) were granted permits to develop colonies and allowed to rule them according to their belief systems provided they followed the laws set by the SC.
Starways Congress rules according to the Starways Code. It is known to have the power to issue and revoke the charters of planetary governments. Starways Congress also holds some level of control over the ansible network; until the discovery of Jane, they believed their control absolute. In the novel Speaker for the Dead, Starways Congress declares the planet Lusitania to be in rebellion, revokes their charter, and removes all documents from that planet. They also order two xenologers to travel to the nearest planet to stand trial for their crimes.
Starways Congress' core belief is in the survival of the human race. When they learn of the danger posed by the Descolada, Gobawa Ekimbo, the leader of Starways Congress, says, "I want to make sure that it's the other guys that disappear." They order the termination of the planet on the grounds that humanity's survival preempts the survival of the Pequeninos.
When Bishop Peregrino orders his flock not to speak or answer the Speaker, Ender (Andrew Wiggin) threatens to petition for the status of Inquisitor. If the planet is found guilty of religious persecution, then their Catholic-only license is revoked, which would lead to Starways Congress to ship enough people off of the planet to allow for a sudden mixing of religion and culture so that it is fair to everyone.
Another example of this ability to control the people is seen in Xenocide and Children of the Mind on the world of Path. Path is an all-Chinese world with its own unique religion. Outsiders are not allowed in, and those who reside on the planet are not allowed to leave for fear of angering the 'Gods' and giving away their tightly held secret. Han Fei-Tzu is credited as being the only person on the planet capable of hiding the God-Speaking from outsiders, and so he is looked at as becoming the future 'God of Path', which is inferred to mean some kind of holy guardian.
Starways Congress had their hands deep in this project, having made secret genetic modifications to some people giving high intellect, but also extreme OCD-like symptoms. These people believe the Gods are speaking to them, and thus gave birth to their religion. This shows the power of Starways Congress, for they can isolate and harbor a culture such as that without allowing it to become diluted with other facets of humanity.
Free People of Earth[edit]
The Free People of Earth is a worldwide government body that appears in Shadow of the Giant and succeeding novels.
The Free People of Earth (FPE) was introduced by Peter Wiggin, Hegemon of the Earth in Shadow of the Giant in an attempt to create a world government free of war. Peter developed a Constitution of the Free People of Earth, which indicated that only democratic countries which guaranteed civil rights would be allowed in. Before a nation was to be inducted, it was required that the nation hold a plebiscite in which the people of that nation voted to join. Unlike previous international government organizations, the Free People was intended to have a strong central government to control all armed forces and foreign affairs for its members. Peter explained to Virlomi, "We'll keep the word nation, but it will come to mean what state means in America. An administrative unit, but little more."
The Free People of Earth also recognized groups that were not previously independent, especially groups that wished to separate from their parent nations.
According to Peter, the military of the Free People consist of the combined militaries of all its member nations, though at all points during the novel it suggests that each nation's military still acts separately, though usually under the control of a Battle School graduate with an affiliation with the Free People. As the novel progresses, though, more alliances between national militaries are clear, and it is apparent that they join forces later on during the conflict between China, Russia, and the Islamic world.
In the last chapter, Peter mentions that Petra Arkanian remains head of the defense department of the Free People; she is the last member of Ender's jeesh to remain on Earth.
References
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
First Meetings by Orson Scott Card

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 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
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 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
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First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
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 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
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 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
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Ender's Game
 
 
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List of Ender's Game series planets

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This is a list of planets from the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card:

Contents
  [hide] 1 Albion
2 Baía
3 Descoladores' home planet
4 Divine Wind
5 Earth
6 Eros
7 Formic's home planet
8 Ganges
9 Hijra
10 Moctezuma
11 Moskva
12 Lusitania
13 Pacifica (Lumana'i)
14 Path
15 Rheims
16 Rov
17 Shakespeare (Ender's World)
18 Sorelledolce
19 Trondheim
20 Zanzibar
21 References
Albion[edit]
A planet that is briefly mentioned in the short story "Investment Counselor". It is home to a woman named Jane whom Ender briefly thought may have created the computer program Jane. Albion is a name for Ancient Britain.
Baía[edit]
A Brazilian catholic world. The nearest world to Lusitania with population pressure. They applied to Starways Congress to colonize Lusitania and did so in the year 1886 SC. In Xenocide, Grego mentions that if he had access to faster than light travel then he could go to university on Baía.
Descoladores' home planet[edit]
The homeworld to the descoladores, discovered in Children of the Mind. Observing it from afar in an "Outside"-capable ship, the ship's riders begin to believe the inhabitants to be varelse; however, due to the Peter Clone's attack on them, they realize they need to take more time in studying the descoladores. This planet is rumored to be the subject of Card's next book, Shadows Alive.
Divine Wind[edit]
A planet colonized and mostly inhabited by Japanese people, with a large amount of tourists. It was one of humanity's first colonies and has a high influence in Starways Congress. Peter Wiggin and Wang-mu came here in Children of the Mind as part of their mission to "find the center of power among humankind" and to "persuade them to stop the [Lusitania] fleet before it needlessly destroys a world [Lusitania]". Divine Wind is the English translation of the Japanese term Shimpū Tokkōtai, more commonly known as Kamikaze.
Earth[edit]
Due to overpopulation, some countries laws stated that each family could only have two children; during the destruction of the Formics and the subsequent colonization of their worlds, this rule was repealed. It is somewhat more advanced than present-day Earth; people are able to travel around in cars that hover over magnetic rails that go at 250 km/h, for example. However, due to International Fleet rule, some nations have declined drastically. One shining example is Rotterdam, a city in the Netherlands, in which children roam the streets fighting each other for food.
Later in the series, Earth's first true federation of nations was built by Peter Wiggin. Called the Free People of Earth (FPE), Peter Wiggin's federation led Earth to experience a golden age while he lived. Unfortunately, after he died, the FPE and the United States of America went to war, with the United States winning. The result was the establishment of the Starways Congress with Earth as the capital of the Starways Congress and thus one of many important worlds.
In the last three books of the Ender Quartet, it is revealed that Earth still holds a place of particular importance. Many notable organizations continue to hold headquarters on Earth, such as the Vatican, numerous large corporations, and the Starways Congress.
Eros[edit]
Eros (named after the real-life 433 Eros) is a wandering asteroid where Command School is situated. It was originally a Formic colony and the International Fleet lost one thousand marines capturing it. Colonel Graff says that they fought for every meter of the place. The capture, however, allows the humans to discover and utilize both artificial gravity and ansible technologies.
Spaceships approaching Eros land on one of three orbital platforms, whereupon passengers are transported to the asteroids in school bus-like spaceships and sucked through tubes in zero gravity to the main colony. Due to the Formics painting it black, its albedo becomes only slightly brighter than a black hole. Humans noted it disappearing from their monitors and sent someone to investigate, which led to a confrontation with the Formics.
In Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin is sent here to attend Command School, where he unknowingly defeats the Formics, believing he is playing a space combat simulation computer game.
A short civil war takes place on Eros after the Formics are defeated, coinciding with a civil war on Earth. Five hundred personnel are lost, and the fighting only ended when the Warsaw Pact troops were ordered to kill Ender, and they promptly refused.
Eros later becomes the staging area for early human colonies being sent out to colonize the vacant bugger colony worlds. Ender Wiggin is seen helping with the refitting a starship docked at a newly constructed space station.
Formic's home planet[edit]
After the Second Invasion, which the humans narrowly won, the International Fleet built and sent the "Third Invasion" to their planets. In order to fight, the I.F. decides to use child commanders and pretend that it is just a fantasy simulation. After a number of grueling battles that causes three of the children to collapse, the fleet arrives at the homeworld. Mazer Rackham tells Ender that this is the final battle. Ender, tired of battling, simply decides to use the Molecular Disrupter Device to destroy the world to try to get himself kicked out of school. Apart from the cocoon Ender later found, all the Hive Queens were present at its destruction, which effectively wiped them out, until Ender revived the last Hive Queen on Lusitania.
A few seconds after its destruction, the planet's own gravity pulled its particles back towards itself, making a new, smaller planet.
Ganges[edit]
A colony planet colonized mostly by people from India. The colony was founded and governed by Virlomi, a battle school graduate. The non-Indian minority of the planet resented Virlomi's Goddess image, including Randall Firth, son of Bean and Petra, who was raised to believe that he was Achilles de Flandres' son.
Hijra[edit]
Hijra is the colony planet of Muslims who migrated from Earth. It was first colonized by Caliph Alai of Ender's Jeesh after the failed Invasion of China by the Muslim Empire in Shadow of the Giant. It was briefly mentioned in Children of the Mind. It is named after Muhammad's pilgrimage from Mecca to Medina. The reason the colony was established was because the Caliph decided that Islam had to be separated from territorial and racial interests, and that such a thing could never occur on Earth.
Moctezuma[edit]
A Spanish planet where Ender learned to speak Spanish 2,000 years before the events of Speaker for the Dead while speaking the deaths of Zacateas and San Angelo.
Moskva[edit]
In Children of the Mind, Jane fakes evidence to make it look like Peter and Wang-mu traveled to Divine Wind on a ship from Moskva. Si Wang-Mu thinks they speak a Russian dialect when Grace talks to them about their 'home" in Moskvan.
Lusitania[edit]
Lusitania is a world first introduced in Speaker for the Dead. Catholic by religion, Portuguese by language and culture, the planet was colonized by Brazilian settlers from Earth, which would later convert the alien species living there to Christianity. It is named after the Roman name, in Latin, for Portugal. This planet is inhabited by all three Ramen races - the Pequeninos, the Formics and Humans. It contains a deadly virus called the descolada that would destroy the ecosystem of any other planet if it were to spread.
The planet's only human colony was restricted in growth so as not to interfere with the Pequeninos; likewise, contact between humans and Pequeninos was forbidden except for the local researchers. The policy proved unworkable, as the Pequeninos had, early on, discovered how to circumvent the security fence of the colony and had been able to observe humans using technology, including witnessing agricultural practices and the arrival of a space-faring shuttle. The planet was also chosen by the Formic queen as a good place for re-emergence because of high levels of mineral deposits, permission from the Pequeninos to settle and a lack of human settlement, including blind spots where satellites did not observe.
Pacifica (Lumana'i)[edit]
A planet visited by Peter Wiggin and Si Wang-Mu after their visit to Divine Wind. It has one massive ocean named The Pacific and a few smaller ones between the continents. The islands in the Pacific are inhabited by Pacific Islanders and the mainlands inhabited by minority races. Lumana'i is Samoan for "The Future".
Path[edit]
Path is a Chinese-inhabited planet in Xenocide and Children of the Mind. Inhabitants include Han Fei-tzu, his wife, Jiang-qing, their daughter, Qing-jao, and their servants, including Qing-jao's secret maid, Wang-mu.
The inhabitants of this planet are divided into two classes–normal people and the godspoken. The "godspoken" are actually genetically-modified human beings with both superhuman intelligence and a crippling OCD-like disease. Any research into this disease would result in the researcher being sent off-world.
At the end of Xenocide, a newly-spawned copy of Peter Wiggin bearing Ender's aiúa shows up in the FTL starship controlled by Jane. After dropping off the retrovirus to make everyone on Path supergeniuses (minus the OCD), he takes the one person who is already in this state, Wang-mu, with him to reunite humanity as Hegemon once again.
At the end of Shadow of the Giant, it is suggested that the geneticist Volescu - responsible for Bean's genetic condition - has been, or will be, sent off to a colony. Since Volescu had previously been developing a means of changing human DNA by means of a virus - not unlike the descolada in Children of the Mind and Xenocide - it is speculated amongst fans that Volescu may have some connection with the emergence of the godspoken on Path.
Path is the English translation of the Chinese Tao (道).
Rheims[edit]
In Xenocide, Grego mentions that if he had access to faster than light travel then he could go to university on Rheims, Baía or even Earth.
Rov[edit]
The first planet that Ender visited after writing The Hive Queen and The Hegemon. Xenocide mentions that it had an abandoned Bugger city similar to the one on Lusitania.
Shakespeare (Ender's World)[edit]
This planet is unnamed in Ender's Game but is referred to as Shakespeare in Shadow of the Giant and Ender in Exile. Ender left Rov with his computer interface implant and knowledge of Jane. (This contradicts "Investment Counselor", which explains that they met on Sorrelledolce.). This planet was a bugger colony about 50 lightyears from Earth. It is the first one settled by humans. The buggers terraformed a part of the landscape to look like the dead giant from the Fantasy Game that Ender played in Battle School and hid a Hive Queen egg here.
Sorelledolce[edit]
Sorelledolce, meaning "sweet sisters" in Italian, is an Italian-speaking planet who is the primary setting for the short story "Investment Counselor", which is set 300 years after the events of Ender's Game. During the events, the colony's population is at four million, with one million residing in the capital city, Donnabella, meaning "beautiful woman". It was one of the few planets that Starways Congress did not control. In "Investment Counselor", Ender and his sister Valentine disembark. Ender has just turned 20 and must pay taxes on his funds. He first approaches a tax man named Benedetto, who discovers that he is Ender the Xenocide. Fortunately, Ender meets Jane, a sentient computer program, who helps him pay his taxes and stops Benedetto from blackmailing Ender. Ender and Valentine leave after ten weeks.
Trondheim[edit]
An icy planet, named after a real life Norwegian city. Trondheim is Ender's home at the beginning of Speaker for the Dead. When Ender leaves for Lusitania, Valentine stays with her husband on Trondheim. While Ender is on Trondheim, he works as a professor in a local university. (discipline not given) Later on Lusitania he mentions to Ela that without the ability to row a boat, you would be as good as crippled on Trondheim.
The planet is mostly tundra and cold seas, however, the equatorial region can support human life relatively well. The chief industry appears to be fishing and hunting a local seal-like creature. The main religions are Calvinist and Lutheran Protestantism. The planet has not been settled very long, with some dwellings in the main city being modified caves.
Zanzibar[edit]
Valentine wrote an essay here comparing the priestly class to the skeletons of small vertebrates some time before Speaker for The Dead.
References[edit]
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
First Meetings by Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card

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 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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InterGalactic Medicine Show

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Type of site
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Owner
Hatrack River Enterprises
Created by
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InterGalactic Medicine Show (sometimes shortened to IGMS) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was founded by multiple award-winning author Orson Scott Card. An anthology also called Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show was published by Tor in August, 2008,[2] featuring selected stories from the webzine. IGMS has featured original stories by such award-winning authors as Peter S. Beagle, David Farland, Tim Pratt, Eugie Foster, Bud Sparhawk, Mary Robinette Kowal, James Maxey, Mette Ivie Harrison, Sharon Shinn, Eric James Stone and Orson Scott Card. In addition to short fiction, each issue is fully illustrated and includes audio content, interviews, and serialization of longer works by Card.
In 2009, Greg Siewert's story, "The Absence of Stars: Part One" won the WSFA Small Press Award for best short story of the year. Other IGMS stories have been nominated for national awards and/or been reprinted in various Year's Best anthologies and on the Locus (magazine) annual recommended reading list.

Contents
  [hide] 1 History
2 Staff
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
History[edit]
The magazine's original publishing schedule, as reported on Sci Fi Wire on 29 September 2005, was to be quarterly, with columns updated monthly. The first issue was released 15 October 2005, the second released 1 March 2006, the third was released 2 October 2006 and the fourth was released 20 February 2007. Since the fifth issue in July 2007, new issues have been released quarterly. Beginning in March 2009, the magazine's schedule was increased to bi-monthly, while the amount of content per issue was slightly reduced.
The first two issues were edited by Card himself. Since the third issue, the magazine has been edited by Edmund R. Schubert.
Staff[edit]
Orson Scott Card, Publisher and Executive Editor
Edmund R. Schubert, Editor
Kathleen A. Bellamy, Managing Editor
Scott J. Allen, Web Designer
Sara Ellis, Assistant Editor
Scott Roberts, Assistant Editor
Eric James Stone, Assistant Editor
Chris Bellamy, Assistant Editor
See also[edit]
List of works by Orson Scott Card
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Intergalacticmedicineshow.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
2.Jump up ^ [1]
External links[edit]
Official site
Side-Show Freaks, Editor Edmund R. Schubert's IGMS blog featuring essays by authors whose work appears on the IGMS site

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Hegemon of Earth

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In the Ender's Game and Shadow series by Orson Scott Card, the Hegemon is the ruler of the planet. Even though the planet is still divided into countries, the Hegemon has power over them all.
Peter Wiggin, Ender Wiggin's brother, becomes the Hegemon at the conclusion of Ender's Game. The Shadow series covers the years that Peter serves in this position. In the novel, the position of Hegemon was the political leader of Earth. The Hegemon, along with the positions of Polemarch (responsible for the International Fleet of space warships), and the Strategos (responsible for the overall command of solar system defense), was one of the three most powerful people alive. The defeat of the Formics by Ender changed this position. Bean was given the title of Strategos by Peter Wiggin after he assumed the Hegemony.
The Hegemon is also the title of a fictional book written by character Andrew "Ender" Wiggin about his brother Peter, usually published with The Hive Queen by the same author. Both works are a result of Ender's turning into a Speaker for the Dead after the end of the Formic War.

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 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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This is a partial list of characters in the Ender's Game series.

Contents
  [hide] 1 The Wiggins
2 Battle School students 2.1 Ender's Jeesh ("Crew")
2.2 Post-War Battle-School Characters
2.3 Other Battle School students
3 International Fleet personnel
4 People from Path
5 People from Lusitania
6 Pequeninos
7 People from/Colonists of Shakespeare
8 People from Ganges
9 Others
10 References
The Wiggins[edit]
Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin is the central character of the Ender quartet and a constant presence in the Bean quartet. Brought into the International Fleet's Battle School for his immense potential as a commander of soldiers, he is eventually tricked into prosecuting the war against the Formics, resulting in the almost-complete destruction of that race, and spends a good part of the remainder of his life attempting to find absolution for his unknowing act of xenocide by becoming a Speaker for the Dead.
Peter Wiggin is Ender's elder brother, rejected from Battle School for ruthless and excessive ambition. Despite showing sociopathic tendencies in his youth, he later becomes Hegemon of the free world due to his prescient and charismatic leadership, and founds the Free People of Earth, the Enderverse's first world government.
Valentine Wiggin is Ender's elder sister, being the middle child of the Wiggin family. Rejected from Battle School for her overwhelming compassion, she serves as the intermediary between the weaker Ender and the jealous Peter during the former's (brief) childhood. Later she helps Peter on his rise to power by becoming "Demosthenes," an essayist whose rabble-rousing demagoguery is contrasted strongly against Peter's statesmanlike essays as "Locke." After the end of the Formic War, she leaves with Ender on an odyssey through time and space, turning Demosthenes into a historian whose essays are considered the definitive word on whatever subject they address. After marrying on the planet Trondheim, she eventually uproots her family to follow Ender to Lusitania, where she helps to defuse the onrushing Lusitania Fleet and the impending shadow of xenocide.
John Paul Wiggin and Theresa Wiggin are Ender's parents. While Ender's Game portrays them as being dull and oblivious, despite the genius children they raised, both characters are fleshed out in later works and revealed to be more intelligent than even their children imagined. John Paul is Catholic and Theresa Mormon.
Battle School students[edit]
Main article: List of Battle School students
Ender's Jeesh ("Crew")[edit]
Ender's Jeesh is a collection of his closest friends at Battle School, particularly those who serve under him during the Third Invasion which ends in the destruction of the Formic homeworld. As chronicled in the Bean Quartet, many of them move into positions of international priority during the chaotic years after the end of the Formic War, particularly due to the machinations of Achilles de Flandres.
Alai
Julian "Bean" Delphiki
Carn Carby
Crazy Tom
Dink Meeker
Champi T'it'u (Dumper)
Fly Molo
Han Tzu (Hot Soup)
Petra Arkanian
Shen
Vlad
Post-War Battle-School Characters[edit]
Achilles de Flandres (first name pronounced "ah-sheel", in the French manner) is the main villain of the Bean quartet. Like Bean, he grew up in Rotterdam, an orphan on the streets; like Peter, he displays sociopathic tendencies, particularly by murdering anyone who has ever seen or made him helpless. During the years after the Formic War, he takes steps to begin unifying the world under his rule, causing a series of costly wars between India, China, Russia, a united Islam, and large parts of Europe and southeast Asia.
Suriyawong is a Battle School grad from Thailand who becomes Bean's friend during the wars caused by Achilles. He was known as "Surly" due to his pugilistic disposition, but during his time with Bean develops into a mature and capable commander.
Virlomi is a Battle School grad from India who is instrumental in rousting Achilles from his power base in India. As the conflicts increase, she returns to rural India to devise and encourage civil disobedience there, but begins to suffer delusions of grandeur.
Other Battle School students[edit]
Ahmed
Ambul
Anwar
William Bee
Bernard
Ducheval ("Shovel")
Filippus "Flip" Rietveld
Nikolai Delphiki
Bonzo Madrid
Talo Momoe
Zeck Morgan
Rose the Nose
Sayagi
Pol Slattery
Wu
International Fleet personnel[edit]
Main article: List of International Fleet personnel
Hyrum Graff is the principal of Battle School, and personally supervised much of Ender's training. After the war he is put on trial for his controversial actions there, but is given a position within the Hegemony as Minister of Colonization, responsible for sending humanity out to colonize the now-deserted worlds formerly held by the Formics.
Mazer Rackham is the half-Māori captain who singlehandedly stopped the Second Invasion by realizing that the Buggers are a hive mind. Due to his inability to pass on his knowledge, he was forced to spend fifty years at relativistic speeds (eight years to Rackham) so that he could train the next commander—Ender Wiggin. After the end of the war, he joins Graff's crusade to keep the human race from destroying itself.
Major Anderson was Graff's second-in-command at Battle School, generally seen in the epistolary conversations from Ender's Game attempting to moderate his superior's unorthodox training of Ender. His passion is the Battle Room; after the war's end, he accepts the post of commissioner for an American football league, and does not appear in the latter three books of either the Ender or Bean quartets.
Admiral Chamrajnagar is the ranking Admiral at Eros, the International Fleet's headquarters, during the final stages of the Formic War; he was not Polemarch during that time, and has assumed that post by the time Achilles de Flandres begins his power plays.
People from Path[edit]
Han Fei-tzu is a "godspoken" man from the planet of Path, whose treaty ended a burgeoning rebellion within the Hundred Worlds some three thousand years after Ender's Xenocide. Since then he has been retained as an advisor to Starways Congress. Han Jiang-qing is wife of Han Fei-tzu. She dies in the opening chapter of the novel.
Han Qing-jao is the daughter of Han Fei-tzu and Han Jiang-qing, also "godspoken" like her parents. When confronted with evidence that the godspoken affliction is not a sign of deitic favor but rather a genetic modification, giving her and all other godspoken both genius-level intelligence and obsessive-compulsive disorder, she is unable to cope with the truth and clings to her old traditions, becoming a tragic character. Her name means "Gloriously Bright."
Si Wang-mu is Qing-jao's "secret maid," an ambitious and extremely bright commoner whom Qing-jao takes under her wing. She is named after the Queen Mother of the West, a powerful figure in Chinese mythology. When the godspoken genes are studied in hopes of retaining the genius-level intellect but removing the OCD, it is discovered that Wang-mu has naturally mutated into such a condition, and her genes are treated as a model of what the revision is intended to do, making her rather outrageous name somewhat less ironic. Later, she accompanies the reborn Peter Wiggin on his quest to stop the destruction of Lusitania, and eventually marries him.
People from Lusitania[edit]
Joao Figueira Alvarez, known as "Pipo," (pronounced PEE-po) is the first xenologer of Lusitania, studying the "Lusitania Aborigines," though they are generally known as pequeninos (Portuguese for "Little Ones") or "piggies". He is one of the few people on the planet who treats Novinha as a real person, and becomes her beloved father-figure during her teenage years. He is the first human killed by the piggies, and his death prompts Novinha to call for a speaker for the dead.
Liberdade Graças a Deus Figueira de Medici, known as "Libo," (pronounced LEE-bo) is Pipo's son and the xenologer after his death. He is Novinha's first love, but she refuses to marry him after Pipo is killed, believing that one of her discoveries about the Descolada led to his murder and refusing to allow him marital access to those files. Unfortunately, he too is vivisected by the piggies, making her effots in vain; his apprentice, Miro, calls for a speaking of his death, which Ender performs. He is the father of Novinha's children.
Ivanova Santa Catarina von Hesse, known as "Novinha," (pronounced no-VEEN-ya) is the daughter of Lusitania's xenobiologists, who were able to inhibit the descolada before it killed the entire colony but did not manage to save themselves. Orphaned, Novinha became distant and formal until finding a sanctuary with Pipo and Libo. It is her pain and sorrow that draws Ender Wiggin to Lusitania, and the two eventually marry. Despite this, Novinha never loses her fragility and fear of losing those dearest to her.
Marcos Maria Ribeira, known as "Marcão" (pronounced mar-COW) ("Big Marcos"), is Novinha's late husband. He is known for his fearsome stature, surly temper, and habit of beating his wife, traits which earned him the epithet "cão," dog; he dies a few weeks before Ender arrives at Lusitania, of a congenital disease which caused his glands to turn to fatty tissues. Among other things, this rendered him sterile, and it is revealed during Ender's speaking of his death that none of Novinha's children are actually his, but rather Libo's; the two agreed to this form of cuckoldry before getting married.
Marcos Vladimir Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Miro," (pronounced MIE-roe) is Novinha's eldest child. He follows Libo into xenology and falls in love with Ouanda, Libo's firstborn daughter by his (actual) wife. In response to this and other factors, he attempts to cross the nerve-stimulating fence separating the piggies from the human compound, suffering brain damage and becoming crippled. He is sent out into space to greet Valentine Wiggin and her family, and later becomes a key player in the events leading up to the almost-second Xenocide.
Ekaterina Elanora Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Ela," (pronounced E-la)is Novinha's second child. Like all the females in her line, she becomes a xenobiologist, and is one of the first members of the Ribeira family to warm to Ender. Later in life, she is instrumental in the destruction of the descolada virus, and its replacement with a far-more-benign variant, the recolada.
Estevão Rei Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Quim," (Quim is pronounced KEENG. Estevão is pronounced ES-te-vowng) is Novinha's third child. He is extremely pious and at first resists Andrew Wiggin on grounds of his atheistic avocation, but later warms to the Speaker, partially for his reputation as a crusader. He later becomes the first Christian evangelist to the pequeninos and holds great respect among them, but is martyred by a particularly heretical forest who believe that the descolada is the Holy Ghost and it is the pequeninos' duty to judge all humans with it.
Lauro Suleimão Ribeira von Hesse, Novinha's fourth child, is known as "Olhado," (pronounced ol-YAH-doe) "the guy with the eyes," because a freak laser accident blinded him in his youth, requiring the implant of metal replacements. He has reduced binocular vision and depth perception but can plug a computer jack directly into one eye, to upload visual recordings. Due to the resulting ostracism, he becomes a keen observer of human nature and interaction. Later in life he becomes a brickmaker (or at least a manager of them) because, to him, family is a far more important calling than the sciences that took his relatives; nonetheless he has revolutionary ways of looking at physics and metaphysics, and is crucial in the development of faster-than-light travel (via a modified hyperspace mechanic related to philotic theory). Like Ela, he quickly warms to Ender; as he relates to Valentine in Xenocide, his greatest secret is that, while alone with Ender, they call each other "Father" and "Son".
Lembrança das Milagres de Jesus Ribeira von Hesse, called "Quara," (pronounced KWA-rah) is Novinha's fifth child. Throughout her life she exhibits stubbornness and contrariness, generally doing whatever the people who love her don't want her to do. She also becomes a xenobiologist, and assists Ela in "truncating" the descolada, despite discovering that the virus is quite possibly sentient and is certainly able to communicate with other individuals of its species.
Gerão Gregorio Ribeira von Hesse, called "Grego," (pronounced GRE-goe) is Novinha's sixth child, only six years old when Ender arrives. As a child he showed a disturbing capacity for destruction, modeled on his father's habit of domestic violence, a temper which does not subside during later years. After Quim's death, he attempts to whip a mob into a frenzy to attack the responsible forest, only to have them jump on the nearest one to hand—Human and Rooter's forest—after being chewed out by Valentine, Grego tries to end the massacre with as little bloodshed as possible, eventually placing himself between the surviving piggies and his own riot. He later collaborates with Olhado on faster-than-light travel.
Pequeninos[edit]
Main article: Pequeninos
Rooter is a piggy who plays an influential role in human-pequenino relations. He is extremely intelligent and frequently proves the wisdom of the xenologers' directive of minimal interference; he is the first piggy to be flayed alive by his tribe after the establishment of the colony of Milagre, and thus the humans' first exposure to this practice; and his "totem tree" (as the humans think of him) provides them with wisdom and direction for years to come.
Human is a pequenino who serves as a diplomat of sorts between the piggies and the humans, helping Ender Wiggin communicate with one of the wives, Shouter, and create a treaty so that both races can live together. He is the first and last piggy to be "planted" by human hands, to sign the treaty in the piggies' way. Later in life he becomes the friend and confidant of the Lusitanian Hive Queen through philotic communication; Children of the Mind implies that the two have developed romantic feelings for each other.
Planter is a lab technician who assists Ela and Quara during the years before the arrival of the Lusitania Fleet. To prove that pequeninos can be separated from the descolada without harm, he volunteers for an "experiment" in which his body is purged of the virus, which is as vital to him as oxygen; though this loses him his "third life" as a sentient fathertree, he proves that pequenino sentience is not affected by the descolada, and as such is remembered by all peoples of Lusitania as a hero and martyr.
Glass is, like Planter, a lab technician to the Lusitanian xenobiologists. He volunteers to be a guinea piggy for the recolada virus and is successfully transformed into a fathertree, proving its suitability as a non-destructive descolada replacement.
Warmaker is a fathertree who, as his name suggests, was influential during the last great war between piggy tribes. It is his forest that develops the peculiar heresy of the descolada being the Holy Ghost, and he himself kills Quim by withholding from him the medicine all humans need to keep the descolada dormant.
Arrow
Calendar
Firequencher
Leaf-Eater
Mandachuva
Water-jumper
People from/Colonists of Shakespeare[edit]
Alessandra Toscano
Sel Menach
Vitaly Denisovitch Kolmogorov
Ix Tolo
Po
Abra is the boy who Ender was with at the end of Ender's Game, when Ender discovered the cocooned Hive Queen at the End of the World the buggers built for him. In Ender in Exile, Abra is revealed to be a bright boy of eleven years old who can fix nearly any machine. Abra is not really accepted by the children of his age because he is seen as someone who is at the level of an adult, while the adults mostly see him as a child.
People from Ganges[edit]
Randall Firth: Originally named Achilles Flanders II, Firth is the missing ninth child of Bean and Petra. Randall was born prematurely and appears to have Anton's Key turned. His mother, Nichelle Firth, also known as Randi believes Achilles is a hero assassinated by foul enemies. Nichelle allows Achilles to implant an embryo, believing that she would be carrying Achilles' child. To avoid persecution by Peter Wiggin, Randi determines to leave Earth and live in a colony, where she can raise her child and return him to Earth later to become the new Achilles. Nichelle ends up as a part of the colony Ganges led by Virlomi. Randall, called "Achilles" by Nichelle, is raised to see Peter the Hegemon and Julian Delphiki (otherwise known as Bean) as monsters, and to believe that Achilles was a true hero. Randall was one of the first to read "The Hive Queen" and treat it like a holy book, and thus he was also the first to paint Ender in a negative light, as Ender "The Xenocide". When Ender encounters Randall on Ganges, Randall plots to provoke Ender so that Ender will strike out and kill Randall. He thinks if this can be done, the universe will realize that Ender was a dangerous criminal. However, Ender does not strike out and instead tells Randall about his true mother and father: Petra Arkanian and Julian Delphiki. Randall is so enraged by this that he proceeds to brutally beat Ender, but Ender does not retaliate at all. Just before he delivers the final blow, Randall realizes that what Ender has told him is true, and he takes Ender to a doctor immediately. Randall then decides to rename himself Arkanian Delphiki, after his true parents.
Virlomi
Others[edit]
The Hive Queen is the physical embodiment of the central consciousness of the Formics.
Jane is an artificial sentience thought to exist within the ansible network by which planets communicate instantly across galactic distances and instant communication is made possible through the hundred worlds.
Anton is a scientist of European descent who discovers two genetic modifications which will allow the human brain unlimited growth, at the cost of unlimited physical growth. This discovery, Anton's Key, is named in his honor. However, research into human genetic engineering was outlawed by the international community, and when the nature of his work was discovered, he was subjected to classical conditioning to make it difficult for him to continue or even discuss his research.
Volescu is an unethical scientist of European descent, and the brother of Bean's father. He illegally modified 23 human embryos, "turning" Anton's Key within them; only one, Bean himself, was ever grown to maturity. Volescu was later discovered and had to destroy all his "research," but Bean escaped him by, at the age of 9 months, hiding himself in the tank of a toilet. Volescu was later imprisoned for his crimes.
Poke is an orphan girl from the streets of Rotterdam, the leader of a "crew" of fellow orphans who eventually take in Bean—and Achilles. Poke gave Bean his name, which he was originally unfond of, but later recognizes himself as Bean and ignores Colonel Graff, who tells Bean his true identity as Julian Delphiki. In Rotterdam, Bean, on some instinct, tells Poke to kill Achilles when she has the chance; she refuses, and Achilles later kills her, after kissing her, by stabbing her in the eye and then throwing her in the Rhine. Bean witnessed the kiss in the dark and, after leaving the scene, came to the realization that Poke was unsafe. He rushes back to find Poke already dead; Bean then blames himself for Poke's death. When Bean tells the story of Poke to Ender's jeesh on the journey to Eros, he decides to trust Petra, saying to her, "You cried for Poke, and that makes us friends."
Seargent is the second in command of Poke's crew, and later Achilles' family. He finds out Achilles killed Poke, but keeps this a secret for his, and everyone else's, protection.
Sister Carlotta is a Catholic nun who works as a recruiter for Battle School. Like Poke, she takes in both Bean and Achilles; however, her battery of psychological tests manage to identify Achilles for who he truly is. Later, when he escapes from a mental institution in Belgium and begins his reign of terror, she and Bean go undercover to oppose him, eventually linking up with Peter Wiggin. She, like Poke, meets her death at Achilles' hands; Bean is never able to forgive himself for these deaths.
Ullysses is a bully in Rotterdam. To help his family receive food from a soup kitchen, Achilles makes a point of beating up Ullysses. When he is released from a hospital he gloats about getting even with him. Ullysses is later killed by Achilles.
Stilson is a bully in Ender's Game. In the very first chapter of the book, he and three friends gang up on Ender, who decides to win, not just this fight, but all fights that might happen in the near future. Ender's counterattacks are so effective that Stilson, unbeknownst to Ender, suffers enough injury to later die in the hospital.
Descoladores are a possibly sentient species that are first presented in Children of the Mind. Little is known about them other than the fact that they communicate using genes, through a virus, known as the Descolada, and that they can use that virus to alter the genes of all life on a planet, causing mostly lethal mutations. There has been much debate as to whether the Descoladores are Ramen, or whether Xenocide needs to occur (although the end of Children of the Mind lets us to know that the protagonists have decided to be Ramen themselves, and not use the Little Doctor to kill them all). It is suspected that they created the Descolada and other viruses in order to 'terraform' (to their liking) planets such as Lusitania. Upon arriving at their home planet, a group of scientists led by Miro, Jane, Quara, and Ela broadcast the remains of the Descolada found on Lusitania. This molecule contained the genetic makeup of all life on Lusitania (including humans and Pequeninos), although they did send an earlier version of the virus that had not seen the attempts to overcome it. The Descoladores responded by transmitting a genetic molecule back that affects the same place in the brain as heroin. Differing hypotheses for this transmission included a pacification attempt by the Descoladores to sedate and capture the intruders, as well as a welcoming "hug" to a new species. This led to the belief that the Descoladores communicate by transmitting a molecule meant to be manufactured and ingested by the receiving party. Another hypothesis is that this is the way the Descoladores communicate with animals, perhaps using philotic twining to communicate amongst themselves.
References[edit]
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
by Orson Scott Card
First Meetings
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Giant
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Books
Ender's Game (1985)·
 Speaker for the Dead (1986)·
 Xenocide (1991)·
 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
Concepts
Hegemon of Earth·
 Organizations·
 Planets
 

 

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Andrew Wiggin
Ender's Game character
First appearance
"Ender's Game"
Last appearance
Ender in Exile
Created by
Orson Scott Card
Portrayed by
Asa Butterfield
Information

Aliases
Speaker for the Dead
Ender the Xenocide
Occupation
Soldier
Family
John Paul Wiggin (father)
Theresa Wiggin (mother)
Peter Wiggin (brother)
Valentine Wiggin (sister)
Spouse(s)
Novinha Ribeira
Children
Miro Ribeira (step-son)
 Ela Ribeira (step-daughter)
 Quim Ribeira (step-son)
 Olhado Ribeira (step-son)
 Quara Ribeira (step-daughter)
 Grego Ribeira (step-son)
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow. The book series itself is an expansion of Card's earlier short story "Ender's Game."
In the upcoming film adaptation of Ender's Game, Ender will be portrayed by Asa Butterfield.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Ender's Game
2 Speaker for the Dead
3 Xenocide
4 Children of the Mind
5 Ender in Exile
6 See also
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Ender's Game[edit]
Ender's Game is the first book in the series. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was the youngest of three children, contrary to a strict two-child policy. Being the third child gave him the derogatory term of being a "third." His existence was called for by a program aiming at producing commanders for humanity's war against the Formics, or "Buggers". He learned how to do so at Battle School, an Earth-orbiting space station that trained similar prodigies. He received the same education as other children, but the military had recognized him as their best bet to be supreme commander and often manipulated its own rules to make sure Ender had not only the necessary technical skills, but also the right character for their ends. Specifically, Ender was conditioned to be entirely self-sufficient from a very young age.
As a child, Ender is bullied at school for being a "Third" (the third child in a society where excessive breeding is frowned upon). Ender responds to his bullies by brutally defeating Stilson, the lead bully, in hand-to-hand combat, ultimately killing him. The adult authorities conceal Stilson's death from Ender. At home, Ender is tormented by his brother Peter, a sadistic bully who resents the attention Ender gets from the military. His only refuge is with his beloved sister Valentine, who acts as his protector and only friend. When he is accepted into Battle School, he is broken-hearted at the thought of leaving her, but she assures him that they will always have a bond.
At Battle School, Ender is exposed to great emotional and mental anguish and even physical danger. The administration is forbidden from protecting him in order to guarantee that he would never look to anybody else for help.
Ender breezes through academics, his main interest being the centerpiece of the school: a team-based three-dimensional laser tag competition in the zero-g Battle Room. He becomes first a masterful player, then a masterful strategist, and is eventually assigned command of Dragon Army. He molds the group of untested and unwanted students into the most successful army in the history of the school (it is revealed in Ender's Shadow that Julian "Bean" Delphiki actually chose them).
Ender's unprecedented success leads to increased jealousy from his fellow commanders, exacerbating the bullying he already experiences. It climaxes as the lead bully Bonzo confronts Ender in the shower and engages in a brutal fistfight. Ender, driven to defend himself because of the administration's lack of intervention, kills Bonzo to end the conflict. This reinforces Ender's recurring role as the "end-er" of conflict, a personality trait favored by the administration. After the fight, they let Ender graduate from Battle School, never informing him that Bonzo died from his injuries.
After graduating several years ahead of time, he is transferred to Command School on Eros. There he trains in interstellar fleet combat with holographic simulators. After Ender masters the game under ordinary conditions, the game changes from one with direct control of ships to one where he relays commands to others - his friends and associates from Battle School, namely, Julian "Bean" Delphiki, Alai, Shen, Petra Arkanian, Dink Meeker, Crazy Tom, Hot Soup, Fly Molo, Vlad, Dumper, and Carn Carby. Under the tutelage of the legendary saviour of humanity from the previous war, Mazer Rackham, Ender and his trusted companions take on a grueling series of battles and emerge victorious each time, although the mounting pressure pushes Ender to the edge.
The final battle takes place above a simulated planet, against an enemy with overwhelming numerical superiority. Ender perceives this as a grossly unfair test, and resolves to win by breaking the rules. This, he thinks, would convince his instructors that he is not the man to lead the Fleet into battle with the Formics. Instead of fighting the enemy ship-to-ship, Ender penetrates their defensive perimeter and destroys the planet itself. Not until after the pandemonium that followed is he told that it was not actually a simulation: Instead of taking on Rackham in what they had thought was a long series of simulations, he and his jeesh had been unknowingly issuing orders to real ships in real combat. The final battle in fact consisted of the destruction of the Bugger home world and the apparent eradication of the Bugger species, resulting in Ender's rise to world adulation. Ender, however, is stricken with guilt for having unknowingly committed xenocide, as well as with anger at himself for allowing the military to use him as a tool.
In the wake of the war, Valentine informs him that he would never be allowed to return to Earth due to her own actions in an effort to protect him from Peter, who was becoming a major political force on Earth (In Shadow of the Hegemon, Peter contradicts this and states that it was he that insisted Ender be exiled for his own protection, to keep his brother from being kidnapped and used as a tool during the revolt that follows). He instead journeys with her to one of the colonies being established on the now-abandoned Bugger worlds. Once there, he discovers a fertilized pupa of a Queen Bugger, hidden in a place that the Buggers designed for him to discover by modelling it to resemble part of an interactive computer game he played during his years in the Battle School. The buggers find out about it during his tormented dreams of them in Command School. The pupal Queen is capable of continuing the Bugger race. Through rudimentary telepathic communication with the Queen, he learns what he had begun to suspect before the war's end: The entire conflict had been a mistake, the result of the inability of two alien species to communicate. He further learns from the Queen that the Buggers had felt terrible regret for having mistakenly fought humans and that they had forgiven Ender for their own deaths even as he orchestrated their destruction. Empathizing with the Queen, Ender promises to find her a home to grow where the Buggers would not be annihilated by the humans.
To foster this eventual rebirth, Ender writes a book called "The Hive Queen", which tells the story of the war from the Formic perspective. Ender uses the pseudonym "Speaker for the Dead" to author it. When Peter, who had advanced to the position of Hegemon of Earth, contacts him, having realized Ender was the writer, the Speaker for the Dead writes a second novel, "The Hegemon", a human parallel to the first book. The two are combined by popular culture, eventually becoming one of the founding texts of a quasi-religious practice on the colonies of Earth. After writing the book, Ender and Valentine depart in a ship in an attempt to find a planet that would allow the Queen to grow, and that they could call their new home.
Speaker for the Dead[edit]
Speaker for the Dead begins 3000 years after the events of Ender's Game. Ender is departing the planet where his sister Valentine has found a husband. He has also acquired an integrated computer by which he communicates with a powerful artificial intelligence known as Jane. Her existence is known only to Ender. He has taken the role of a Speaker for the Dead, keeping his identity as the "Ender the Xenocide", who orchestrated the victory over the Formics, a secret. His book, "The Hive Queen and the Hegemon", in which he "spoke" for the dead Formics, was a self-critical work that was intended to portray Ender as a heartless monster who destroyed a sentient race. The name "Ender" is now considered a vile insult.
Ender departs for the planet Lusitania, where a request has been made to "speak" on behalf of a researcher who has died from contact with the planet's indigenous species, the piggies. When he arrives at the planet 22 years later (relativity having aged him only slightly; less than two weeks) he finds that the original call for a Speaker has been rescinded. Two other requests, however, have been made to "speak" for more recent deaths. Ender discovers that both calls originated from the same family; the first from Novinha's daughter Ela requesting someone speak for the death of Novinha's husband Marcos, and the second from her eldest son Miro, who has asked for a speaker for the researcher Libo.
Ender begins to investigate the Marcos figure and has frequent contact with Novinha's family. His honest and open approach endears him to most of the children as a father figure. He discovers that Marcos was abusive to his wife. With the help of Jane and his connection with the children, he uncovers multiple secrets that have been hidden for years. However, while in dialogue with the Children of the Mind, the planet's religious monastic order, he is annoyed by Jane's semi-sarcastic commentary and turns off his connection to her, something he has never done before. The resulting complete isolation and trauma of Jane is the unforeseen result. Jane, without consulting Ender, sends incriminating reports to the intersteller authorities who order the arrest of Miro and Ouanda, the researchers and lovers who have been investigating the piggies. The colony's charter is cancelled and the colonist are forced to rely on Ender for guidance.
Meanwhile, Ender has been receiving pressure from the Hive-Queen's pupa to allow her to settle on this world because she has been in telepathic contact with another race. Ender assumes this race is the piggies, although the bipedal life forms that are the primary contacts of Miro and Ouanda seem very simple and not telepathic at all. After the sanctions are put in place, he gets Miro and Ouanda to allow him to visit the piggies, who have been asking to meet him, the 'original Speaker' (a claim Miro and Ouanda have been dismissing as a misunderstanding). Ender reverts many of the researchers' assumptions when he not only admits to being the original Speaker, but has the piggies demonstrate that the trees the piggies grow from the corpses of those who have been ritually killed is the third, reproductive stage. The ritual killings of the two xenologers were misunderstandings. The piggies were under the false impression that humans reproduced in a fashion similar to themselves.
After these revelations, Ender proceeds to "speak" for Marcos and revealed many secrets hitherto hidden, mostly by Novinha. Foremost among them was that Marcos was incapable of having children, and Novinha's children are offspring of Libo. This is devastating news to Miro, because it means his girlfriend Ouanda is his half-sister. Sanctions from the Intergalactic Congress are learned of and Ender recommends that the colony declare itself in rebellion. He re-establishes contact with Jane who masks their ansible signal.
He enters into the beginnings of a relationship with Novinha. His sister, Valentine, agrees to travel to the colony. On the far side of the planet he has discovered a site reminiscent of a dream in Enders Game. With her guidance, he plants the Hive-Queen's pupa in preparation for the rebirth of the Formics after 3000 years.
Xenocide[edit]
During Xenocide, Ender is looked to as an unofficial leader for the multiple efforts being undertaken in the rebel Colony of Lusitania. He is helping as much as he can with Novinha's work in protecting humans from the descolada virus. The Descolada is fatal to humans, but is essential for the piggies' life and reproduction. The Formics have an immune system that is advanced enough to protect them, and the humans have been using anti-viral dietary supplements, but both defenses are starting to fade in effectiveness in the face of the virus' rampant mutations. Ender is also attempting to keep the peace on planet among the three species where resentment is brewing. The humans are starting to resent the piggies for being the reason they can't just kill the descolada outright. The existence of the new Formic colony is not general knowledge, but Ender knows that their appearance and their non-human way of reasoning would cause friction with the humans. Particularly troublesome are Novinha's two youngest children; Grego, who is something of a rabble-rouser among the humans, and Quara, who sees the virus as sentient and is bringing up problematic objections to the research her mother and sister are doing. The piggies and the Formics are also worried about the approaching human fleet, which may destroy the planet if the threat of the descolada virus is unleashed on humanity.
Eventually research ordered by the government on another planet, Path, leads a young genius girl, Han Qing-jao, to deduce the existence of Jane, who is inextricably tied to the ansible system. Jane reveals herself to Qing-jao in an effort to prevent her from informing the authorities by telling her that the OCD her people suffer from was governmentally ordered and orchestrated, a plea which the girl's father Han Fei-tzu and handmaiden Si Wang-mu agree with. However, the report to the authorities is dispatched regardless and the government enacts a plan to temporarily deactivate the ansible network to purge Jane from the system. The father agrees to help with the Descolada problem regardless of his daughter's actions, in exchange for a cure for the pervasive OCD that plagues them. The Lusitanian researchers agree, but though a cure for both is designed, it proves impossible to synthesize; they can't cure the OCD without removing the genius as well, and the counter for the descolada simply won't be created. Meanwhile, putting together facts about Jane's origins, the ansible, and philotes, the irreducible building blocks of all matter everywhere, they deduce that Jane has the power to take any object she knows about in great detail and pull it outside the known universe, an area where conscious thought has a lot more power than anything else.
Ender goes on the first test flight because Jane's existence was a direct result of his time at the Battle School, where the buggers established a connection with him via a computer simulation game; therefore, Jane is most likely to be able to keep Ender's form in her mind. Since Ender has all but passed Jane off to Miro at this point, due to the previous misunderstanding in Speaker, he must go as well. Ela goes because she is the only one with enough knowledge to produce the needed viruses. The test flight occurs with unexpected side-effects. Ela produces the new viruses, but Miro also gives himself a new body, undamaged unlike his old one. Ender, however, inadvertently creates copies of his brother and sister from his memories. They are more based on those memories than reality; therefore, Valentine is very soft and loving, and Peter is almost pure evil and malice. Horrified at what he has created, Ender removes himself from further efforts, as they will all need to involve the instantaneous travel Jane can do by moving things outside and Ender will not risk creating more things like his pseudo-siblings.
Children of the Mind[edit]
Children of the Mind begins where Xenocide left off. Much of Ender's story revolves around his "pseudo-offspring" Peter and young Val. After Ender's first and only trip to the outside and back inside, Ender creates Peter and young Val from his aiua. Ender's "life force" is now split between three different people. Throughout the book Ender has a difficult time maintaining an aiua strong enough for all three people to live. The maximum number of people Ender can keep alive and healthy at any given time is two. In the beginning young Val suffers the most because Ender is the least interested in her mission, until it is revealed that she, along with Miro and Jane, are looking for the home planet of the descolada virus. Peter never had to compete for Ender's aiua because Ender was always interested in Peter's mission to prevent the Lusitania fleet from using the Molecular Disruption Device on Lusitania. Now that Ender's aiua is fully invested in Peter and young Val, Ender himself begins to deteriorate. This causes Ender to collapse while working in the monastery garden, falling in and out of consciousness for the remainder of the book until his death. Ender's physical manifestation is gone, but his aiua continues through Peter and young Val.
Ender in Exile[edit]
A book that chronicles the 'lost years' between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, Ender in Exile tells of Ender's initial set-off from Eros, the long journey to the first colony, Shakespeare, as well as his trip to the Indian-dominant colony of Ganges, where Ender encounters a familiar, yet not-so-familiar face. The court martial of Hyrum Graff is expanded upon; some light is shed on Graff's life after he was made Minister of Colonization, as well as Mazer Rackham's travels after the Formic War.
After defeating the Formics, Ender remains on Eros. Peter, under his alias of Locke, has quelled the warring nations and has implemented a temporary truce. Valentine no longer wishes to be a part of Peter's quest to rule the world. She pleads with her parents to come along with her and Ender to the planet colony of Shakespeare. They decline. Alessandra and her mother, Dorabella, sign-up to go to Shakespeare to get away from Dorabella's mother and money problems. They had planned to be put into stasis during the two year voyage, but several complications occurred and instead they remain awake. along with the crew of Ender, Valentine, Admiral Quincy Morgan (the captain) and some other colonists who opted against stasis.
Throughout the voyage, Ender has a battle of wills with Admiral Morgan, who attempts to usurp Ender's lawful position as Governor of Shakespeare. Morgan sees Ender to be a foolish child that no one would follow. During the voyage, Dorabella seduces Admiral Morgan and tries to use her daughter, Alessandra, to seduce Ender hoping that, through her own marriage to Morgan and Alessandras' successful marrying of Ender, Morgan could rule Shakespeare using Ender as a puppet.
Upon arrival at Shakespeare, Ender quickly and easily crushes Morgan's attempted bloodless coup, with a little help from Minister of Colonization Hyrum Graff back on earth. Ender then successfully liberates Alessandra from her dominating mother. After two years as Governor, and completing 'The Hive Queen and the Hegemon', Ender convinces Valentine to move on.
Ender's first stop, at the request of Hyrum Graff, is the Hindu colony of Ganges which is governed by Virlomi, a former battle school student who caused an uprising in India before she was subdued and exiled by Peter Wiggin's Hegemony. Once there, Ender agrees to help Virlomi quell an uprising by a group called 'The Natives of Ganges', led by an angry young man named Randall Firth under the delusion that he is the son of Achilles de Flandres. The so-called 'natives' have adopted 'The Hive Queen' as a rallying cry, and have begun to belitte the name of war hero Ender Wiggin. coining the phrase 'Ender the Xenocide'.
Ender and Randall have a physical combat leaving Ender near death. Ender reveals Randall's true parentage (two of Ender's old friends and squadron commanders, Julian 'Bean' Delphiki and Petra Arkanian Delphiki Wiggin), after which Randall renounces his secret name, Achilles, and renames himself Arkanian Delphiki. Shortly after, Ender reunites Randall and his mother by way of the ansible.
See also[edit]
Ender's Game (series)
External links[edit]
Original "Ender's Game" short story
Ender's Game page on Card's website with link to first chapter
Ender Saga

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Peter Wiggin

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Peter Wiggin
Ender's Game character
First appearance
Ender's Game
Last appearance
Shadow of the Giant
Created by
Orson Scott Card
Portrayed by
Jimmy Pinchak
Information

Family
John Paul Wiggin (father)
Theresa Wiggin (mother)
Valentine Wiggin (sister)
Ender Wiggin (brother)
Spouse(s)
Petra Arkanian
Si Wang-mu
Children
Five unnamed children (by Petra)
Peter Wiggin is a fictional character in the science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels, written by Orson Scott Card. He has appeared in the novels Ender's Game, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind and in an upcoming short story to be published in Intergalactic Medicine Show.
Jimmy Pinchak will portray him in the film adaptation of Ender's Game, set to be released in 2013.
Childhood[edit]
In Ender's Game, Peter is depicted as a sadistic bully who delights in torturing animals and terrorizing his siblings, Ender and Valentine. He is denied entrance into Battle School because he is too violent for the likings of the officers in charge. He is not without humanity, however; toward the end of the novel, Peter admits he loved Ender as a baby and felt very angry when Ender would ignore him in favor of Valentine.
After Ender leaves for Battle School, his family moves to North Carolina in an effort to curb his emerging sociopathy. The move ultimately makes the situation worse, however; Peter remains cold and cruel, but he learns how to affect a charming facade to manipulate adults into giving him what he wants. Valentine sees him for who he is, but remains silent because she feels guilty for sharing a bond with him.
At the age of 12, Peter convinces Valentine to use their parents' network identities, and eventually hidden identities that they have obtained for themselves, to submit writings (in the form of blogs) to the world using pseudonyms (Locke for Peter and Demosthenes for Valentine). Demosthenes acts as a demagogue, stirring up hostility towards governments in the Second Warsaw Pact, especially Russia; Locke, meanwhile, takes a more empathic and high-minded role, calling for communication between the two nations. Each of the two writers gradually gain a following. Playing off each other’s writings, the siblings work to manipulate world events and opinions, so that when the extraterrestrials threatening the world ("Buggers") are defeated, the resulting League War (caused by the world’s only common enemy ceasing to exist) is quickly resolved by the "Locke proposal".
Peter sends Ender away after the five-day League War. Valentine joins Ender, leaving Peter as the only Wiggin child on Earth.
Rise to power[edit]
In Shadow of the Hegemon, Bean, the main protagonist, joins Peter when Achilles de Flandres captures all the members of Ender's jeesh. Bean decodes a message sent by one of the captured children and provides Peter with it, which Peter reveals to the world through his Locke persona. Later, Sister Carlotta and Bean convince Peter his path to power requires him to reveal himself as the writer behind Locke and Demosthenes and to decline the position of Hegemon because of his age. Peter dislikes being told what to do, but recognizes that this is the only action he can take, as it is only a matter of time before Achilles, now pulling the strings in India, takes action to expose or kill him. He uses his influence to put Bean in a military position in Thailand, which he and Bean perceive to be the target of a future attack by Achilles' India.
Meanwhile, Peter does consultation work in Haiti to show his abilities at governing and to have a nation’s protection from Achilles. Events during Bean's time in Thailand, the way in which India is conducting its war, and information from Peter's contacts reveal to Peter and Bean that Achilles' true goals are to create a massive Chinese empire by betraying both India and Thailand. Bean and Peter disagree over the release of this information to the world.
Peter eventually reports the information to the world, just before Bean rescues a group of Battle School Students from India. The reporting of China’s plans precipitates their betrayal of India and Thailand. Both of these countries are so weakened by their war with each other that China manages a nearly bloodless conquest.
This new conquest of China’s frightens much of the rest of the world, and they vote Peter in as Hegemon to try to preserve peace, even as China, now ruling over a third of the world’s population, revokes its recognition of the position. At the end of the novel, Bean turns control of his small battle group over to Hegemon Peter. Afterwards, they argue over Peter’s refusal to report on China’s plans sooner. Peter justifies himself by saying that reporting sooner would have done nothing to stop it, as he would not have been believed; and that even if he was, neither India or Thailand had the capacity to resist the Chinese aggression. By revealing the information when he did, he avoided a much bloodier war, and he cemented his reputation for prescience and as a man for peace. Another reason for that, from the point of view of other characters, is that the information being revealed before wouldn't have been as beneficial to Peter getting the office of Hegemon as it was, even if the office was only nominal in practical terms.
Peter sees himself as the only person capable of bringing peace to the warring world. Peter seems to have played his hand perfectly—he unites humanity under a single government, due to the way that he analyzed the problem as early as Shadow of the Hegemon when he decides to take action against Achilles, and releases the information that Achilles was to betray the world via Russia (and later India) to China, which is soon taken over by Han Tzu (a Battle school survivor of Ender Wiggin's jeesh). Peter runs world affairs with an articulate eye and open mind.
In Shadow Puppets, Peter invites Achilles to work for him, despite the danger this places Peter in. In the previous novel, Peter was the writer who exposed Achilles and forced him to abandon his plans for conquest. Achilles moves to subvert the Hegemony and forces Peter to go up into space. There, Colonel Graff gets suspicions that Achilles will attempt to kill Peter and his parents when they return to Earth. Graff sends a dummy ship that Achilles blows up; in doing this, Achilles all but seals his doom, since no nation will want to openly associate with him. Peter retakes the Hegemony.
It is during Peter's time as a fugitive that he begins to change and evolve into the benevolent person described in 'The Hegemon'. Accepting that he miscalculated and almost got himself and his parents killed, he begins to recognizes his parents for who they truly are: highly intelligent people who always cared for him instead of the ignorant buffoons he thought they were. After refusing to let him give up and encouraging him to take responsibility for his mistake, Peter comes full circle and apologizes to his parents for exiling Ender and scaring Valentine away from Earth.
Shadow of the Giant comes back to Peter's conquest to unite the world and shows his diplomatic and political maneuvering. He creates the Free People of Earth, a contract by all people who have ratified it. Based on principles of republican democracy, all nations—including unrecognized nations within sovereign borders—are invited to join the FPE. By joining of their own accord, the organization governs itself by the rule of law without coercing the populace. If a ratified member is attacked by hostile forces, the FPE as a whole intercedes on their behalf. It begins slowly, but quickens when he uses Bean to swiftly defeat the aggressive armies attacking the new fledgling members. As Hegemon, Peter brokers offers to the other major world forces to retain their autonomy and encourage their ratification, but without compromising the principles of the FPE. Over time, the FPE rises from obscurity and becomes a dominant economic and military force. At the very end of the novel, only the United States has not joined, but the world as a whole is united and peaceful.
Over the course of the novel Peter's growing maturity is seen in greater detail. Peter's reliance on Bean's military prowess is crucial to the FPE, but is also limited as Bean intends to leave Earth once his missing children are found. However, when Mazer Rackham informs Peter that the children were found and asks for the right time to tell Bean, Peter refuses to keep Bean away from his children and tells Rackham to tell him right away. During their conversation Rackham also reveals to Peter the true reason Ender was chosen to go to the Battle School over him: it wasn't his aggressiveness or violent attitude, both which were seen as required qualities, but rather his cold and unsociable demeanor which disqualified him. After Bean leaves Earth, Peter helps Bean's wife Petra Arkanian to raise her five remaining children and later marries her. Together, they have five additional children of their own.
Ender's and Valentine's trip through space, though short for them, lasts 50 years on Earth. By this time, Peter has united the world under the office of Hegemon and is suffering from a failing heart. As first described in Ender's Game, and later, with more detail, in Shadow of the Giant, he communicates by ansible and tells Ender what he did on Earth, both good and bad. Peter apologizes to Ender for his behavior, and Ender seems to have forgiven him. He says, "I think I can write about you." Based on these conversations, Ender writes The Hegemon and releases it after Peter's death under a pseudonym, Speaker for the Dead. This story, a frank account of Peter Wiggin's life, is later published as a single volume with Ender's The Hive Queen, a small novel about the Formics, or buggers, telling the truth behind the tale. In the end, both Peter and Ender have done great things that changed human history forever. The final irony in both of their legacies is that Peter is remembered for being a caring and peaceful leader even though he was cruel and violent as a child while Ender is remembered for being a ruthless warmonger even though he was kind and gentle as a child.
A new Peter[edit]
In Xenocide, during an experimental trip to the “outside,” Ender accidentally splits his aiúa into three parts: himself, Young Valentine, and Young Peter. Young Peter is more like a caricature of Ender’s childhood perception of Peter; he is angry, sadistic and arrogant. In spite of this, Young Peter carries a cure for OCD to the world of Path.
Fragments and parts of Peter's rule of Hegemon are also explored in Xenocide. For instance, all of the Hundred Worlds are settled (or had colony ships going to them) by the time of Peter's death, and Peter's organization, the Free People of Earth, is replaced by Starways Congress. At the end of the novel, Young Peter calls Hegemon "that book of lies" for cleaning the blood on his hands, for "as long as I was alive, I wanted blood there".
In Children of the Mind, he travels to many of the Hundred Worlds with Si Wang-Mu, now made possible due to the experimental faster than light travel that created him in Xenocide. Both of them are on a mission to persuade as many leaders as possible that the Evacuation Fleet constitutes a second xenocide. Because of him, orders are sent to the Fleet to prevent the use of the Molecular Disruption Device. However, Peter himself is forced to appear on the deck to stop the ship’s captain from taking matters into his own hands, which would have resulted in the use of the Little Doctor anyway. The Fleet is averted. During this process, Ender dies, and his aiúa is passed on to Peter, making him a "self" now. At the end, he falls in love with and marries Wang-Mu.

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Valentine Wiggin
Ender's Game character
First appearance
Ender's Game
Last appearance
Ender in Exile
Created by
Orson Scott Card
Portrayed by
Abigail Breslin
Information

Family
John Paul Wiggin (father)
Theresa Wiggin (mother)
Peter Wiggin (brother)
Ender Wiggin (brother)
Spouse(s)
Jakt
Miro Ribeira
Children
Lars, Syfte, Ren, Ro, Versam
Valentine Wiggin is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series of novels. She is the older sister of series protagonist Ender Wiggin.
Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin will portray her in the upcoming film adaptation of Ender's Game.
Biography[edit]
Valentine is introduced in Ender's Game. The second child in the Wiggin family, she is born when the Fleet requested of the Wiggin parents that a girl be conceived because they decide that her brother, Peter, is too cruel[note 1] to be taken to the Battle School. The Fleet thinks that the Wiggin family genius would be better used by a girl, but Valentine is too empathic and conciliatory for the Battle School program. Because of this, the I.F. requested that a Third (named Andrew, later nicknamed "Ender") be conceived as a balance between the two extremes.
During her early years, Valentine serves as a friend and protector for Ender, whom Peter torments because he is jealous of their close relationship. Afraid for her life as well as Ender's, Valentine claims during a confrontation with Peter that she has hidden a public record in the library that will be opened in the event of her death, stating that Peter had most likely murdered her, and that he would soon move against Ender. She taunts him by saying that it would not be enough to convict him of anything, but it would be a damaging enough record to keep him out of politics, a realm he wishes desperately to enter.
While Ender is away in Battle School, Peter implores Valentine to "work with him". As young children, they write political commentary under pseudonyms ("Demosthenes" for Valentine, and "Locke" for Peter). The former would be a demagogue who called for war with the country's coalition partners, especially Russia, while the latter would be a mild intellectual who advocated diplomacy — a decision at odds with both writers' actual personalities. Demosthenes becomes extremely popular, whipping the public into a xenophobic frenzy and moving the country closer and closer to war. During this time, Valentine recognizes that Peter is trying to manipulate her for his own purposes, though Valentine realizes that she is manipulating him as well. While his powers of manipulation could create fear to be used to his advantage, she could truly persuade others to her point of view; she knows she can use this power on Peter.
After Ender's victory over the Buggers, Valentine chooses to go on the first colonization ship to leave Earth.[note 2] After her departure, Valentine revives her "Demosthenes" identity, but writes as a historian, chronicling different cultures on different planets. Under the Demosthenes pseudonym, Valentine develops the four-tiered Hierarchy of Exclusion.
Physically, Valentine has been described as a redhead. She was born two years after Peter and two years before Ender. However, the relativistic effects of interstellar travel render moot the question of how old she is in comparison to Ender or Peter.
During the two-year transit (subjective time) to their new home, as well as the colony's first years there, Valentine pens a complete multi-volume history of the wars against the Formics, with the final book centering primarily around the now-legendary Ender Wiggin and including the text of The Hive Queen by the Speaker for the Dead. Hegemon Peter The Great, now in his 70s, contacts his siblings after reading said history; out of these conversations come The Hegemon, which is appended in later editions of Demosthenes' history. Thereafter, Valentine begins to follow her brother Andrew (no longer using "Ender" as his nickname) in his travels. Their first stop is the colony of Ganges, after Hyrum Graff requests them to help quell an uprising.
Valentine and Andrew travel various worlds over the next 3,000 years until she falls in love with Jakt, a fisherman on the colony world of Trondheim. She decides, rather to her surprise, to marry him, while Andrew finally separates from her to voyage to Lusitania. The voyage takes 22 years, so that Andrew is 36 and Valentine 60 when he arrives. However, after Lusitania's revolt, Valentine uproots her family (consisting of herself, Jakt, and her children — different paragraphs in different books describe her as having either six, five or three of them) and joins them there; their voyage takes 30 years as they make several hops in the wrong direction to discourage pursuit, more than equalizing the age difference between them.
Valentine offers what help she can to the colonists of Lusitania, generally doubling Ender's role as a voice of reason. She also revives the original Demosthenes persona, writing inflammatory, passionate diatribes against Starways Congress' current plan of uprooting Lusitania and possibly exterminating the Pequeninos. After arriving in Lusitania, Valentine meets Young Valentine, who was created by Andrew's experimental trip with Jane. She remarks that Young Valentine was more beautiful than she herself was when she was her age. Valentine witnessed Andrew's "death" when he could no longer support the three bodies using his mind.
After Andrew's funeral, she witnesses the weddings of, respectively, Jane and Miro and Peter and Si Wang-mu. As of Children of the Mind,
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ This was later refuted in Shadow of the Giant by Mazer Rackham in a discussion with Hegemon Peter Wiggin. Battle Schoolers were not denied entry on the basis of excessive aggression. Peter was denied entrance because he lacked the fundamental charisma of a leader - people would follow him out of like-minded goals, but never show him the same devotion and love that Ender could command.
2.Jump up ^ She convinces Ender to accompany her on this trip, explaining to him that he really has no other choice, because while writing as Demosthenes, she had taken measures to make sure he could not return to Earth (because she did not want Peter to bring Ender back and use him to further his political agenda). Peter agreed to this because Valentine threatened to make public the evidence she had amassed over the years of his sociopathic behavior if he didn't allow her and Ender to go free and with the colony.
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John Paul Wiggin

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John Paul Wiggin (Polish: Jan Paweł Wieczorek) is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's Ender's game series. He appeared in the original novel Ender's Game, and in several of its sequels: Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Ender in Exile. John Paul is a central character in two of the prequel short stories: "The Polish Boy" and in other books like"Teacher's Pest".
John Paul is named after "St. John Paul II, the great Polish Pope".[1] He is the father of the series's central character Ender Wiggin, as well as of Ender's two older siblings Peter and Valentine. All three children are shown to have inherited the intelligence of John Paul and his wife Theresa.
John Paul was the seventh child born to a family of nine in Poland, which at the time, during the Formic Wars, was against the Hegemony's overpopulation control laws. This caused his family to be labeled non-compliants, because they had more than the maximum of two children. However, they felt that staying true to their Catholic faith, which stated that each child sent to them was a gift from God, was more important than listening to any government. In spite of this noncompliance, he was tested and considered for Battle School.
After being tested, he was introduced to then-Captain Hyrum Graff as a leading candidate for the role which Ender would later play, but his personality was judged too set in anti-authority patterns. He arranged a deal through which his family would be moved to America and given exemption from the population laws in exchange for a modicum of guaranteed service, which both he and Graff knew he had no intention of fulfilling. His purpose was to get his family out of its repressive circumstances; Graff's purpose was to allow him to have a child in America who could be more carefully monitored and introduced to Battle School without John Paul's prejudices, as told in the short story "The Polish Boy".
John Paul came to the United States and lived there as a student, separating from his family. He changed his last name to "Wiggin" and his academic background states that he graduated with valedictorian honors. In his classes, he met Theresa Brown, a teacher. He successfully courted her and they later marry.
It is implied that the Wiggin children acquired their aptitude for understanding human nature from John Paul in Graff's original assessment of his capabilities, while their logistical brilliance likely came from Theresa Wiggin, whose father was a renowned genius, as told in "Teacher's Pest".
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2003). "The Polish Boy". First Meetings in Ender's Universe. New York: Tor. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-7653-4798-5.

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Theresa Wiggin

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Theresa Wiggin is a fictional character from the Ender's Game series of novels by Orson Scott Card. She is the mother of Peter, Valentine and Ender Wiggin, and the wife of John Paul Wiggin.
She appeared in the novels Ender's Game, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, and Ender in Exile and is a central character in a prequel to Ender's Game, the short story Teacher's Pest.
In Teacher's Pest, the chronological first account of Theresa, then Theresa Brown, is given. She is depicted as a graduate student researching community formation and social connections, but overshadowed by her father, who is renowned as a theoretical military genius. She and John Paul speculate that John Paul's forced attendance of her class may be a ploy by the International Fleet to allow them to meet.
Although she has hidden her Mormon faith, she remains devoutly religious when allowed to speak freely, which is rare. She prayed over the sleeping Ender when he was young, and in a conversation with Bean in Shadow of the Hegemon reveals efforts on behalf of her children to raise them religiously were stifled by the International Fleet's interest in them and the fact that the Fleet would have undoubtedly interfered had they attempted to instill a specific value set.
After both Peter and Valentine were determined to be unfit for Battle School, the International Fleet bent their population restrictions and allowed the unfettered birth of Ender. As a Third, a child born third to the family, Ender faced discrimination, but it is revealed that Theresa and John Paul intended to have a third child regardless of the International Fleet restrictions.
She also notes that it was too late to teach Peter religion, but that after seeing the boy's ruthless ambition and taste for violence, she tried with John Paul to teach him basic concepts like decency, although at the time Peter despised them both.
She is a minor character in the Ender quartet but is given a much more prominent role in the Shadow series. It is revealed in the Shadow series that she and her husband, John Paul, are fully aware of Peter's actions as a teenager and his work under the penname "Locke". The series also outlines in detail the struggles she experienced as the mother of three of the most brilliant minds on Earth.

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List of Battle School students

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This is a list of Battle School students who attended Battle School in Orson Scott Card's fictional Ender's Game series.

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  [hide] 1 Ender's jeesh 1.1 Alai
1.2 Bean
1.3 Dink Meeker
1.4 Carn Carby
1.5 Crazy Tom
1.6 Dumper
1.7 Fly Molo
1.8 Han Tzu
1.9 Petra Arkanian
1.10 Shen
1.11 Vlad
2 Other Battle School students 2.1 William Bee
2.2 Bernard
2.3 Nikolai Delphiki
2.4 Achilles de Flandres
2.5 Bonzo Madrid
2.6 Talo Momoe
2.7 Rose de Nose
2.8 Pol Slattery
2.9 Suriyawong
2.10 Virlomi
2.11 Zeck
2.12 Pinual
2.13 Wu

Ender's jeesh[edit]
This list refers to the students who were handpicked by Battle School teachers to be led under Ender Wiggin during the Third Invasion in Ender's Game. The Third Invasion was a battle where the children were commanders of a number of International Fleet starships. The word jeesh is first used in the novel Shadow of the Hegemon and is derived from the Arabic word for "army."
Alai[edit]
Main article: Alai (Ender's Game)
Alai (pronounced ah-lie) is a Muslim of North African descent. In Battle School, he was an exceptional student, adroit in the battle room, and was one of the first children to befriend Ender, with the word "salaam" and a kiss on the cheek. They became best of friends. He also helped lead the special training sessions Ender conducted, and later became one of the most trusted members of Ender's jeesh during the Third Invasion due to his innate talent. After his return to Earth, he is eventually elected Caliph of a unified Muslim world.
Bean[edit]
Main article: Bean (Ender's Game)
Bean is a student of Greek and Igbo descent from the streets of Rotterdam. Though the smallest and youngest member of the jeesh, he is also the smartest and most fair-minded person. Ender initially notes that he is isolating Bean as Ender himself was once isolated, in order to force Bean to flourish. Though nothing more than a supporting character in Ender's game, Bean becomes the lead character of his own set of books, revealing his role as the behind-the-scenes facilitator of most of the main events of that time period (the victory against the Formics, the uniting of Earth under Peter Wiggin, so on); being "behind the scenes" is a central theme in these works, as Bean realizes at the end of Ender's Shadow that he will always be the sub-commander to save the supreme commander from his own errors and never receive recognition for the brilliant strategies that his superiors will.
Dink Meeker[edit]
Dink Meeker is a Battle School student of Dutch descent. He is portrayed as one of those who refuses to play the teacher's game. He says that he was offered command of an army twice, but refused to play. He was paranoid of the game, convinced that the teachers were the enemy and that the Bugger War was fake so that all children with ability for command were in the hands of the International Fleet; however, he loved the game, so he stayed as a toon leader. He also tells Ender that the Battle Room is made for the armies to hate each other and to be prepared for a civil war between the Americans and the Russian Second Warsaw Pact. Dink asked for Ender Wiggin to be transferred into Rose de Nose's army under his command as a toon leader after he had watched Ender. He sees Ender's new strategies, such as blocking vital parts of the body with his legs, and recruits him, teaching his own toon Ender's tactics. Dink refrains from protecting Ender, instead inciting independence in him. Later, he is sent to Command School along with the rest of Ender's jeesh. His ability for command is commented by Petra Arkanian, who jokingly states that he has the "mind of a child".
After the war, Dink is sent back to Earth. However, he is quickly captured, along with the rest of Ender's jeesh, by Achilles. He consoles Petra and talks with her often, but they are separated when Dink and the others are rescued but Achilles keeps Petra with him. When Graff gives the jeesh the opportunity to leave Earth and govern a colony to save the world from the inevitable warfare that will come if they remain, Dink is the first to accept.
Carn Carby[edit]
Carn Carby is an Australian veteran who commands Rabbit Army. In the original short story version of Ender's Game, Ender held a low opinion of him: in the novella, when Bean was transferred into Rabbit Army, Ender says, "How can they put you under an idiot like Carby!", but in the expanded novel Ender's reply is, "Carby's a good man; I hope he recognizes you for what you're worth." Carby's Rabbit Army were the first to battle Ender's Dragon Army and were beaten badly. When Carby told the other commanders of Ender's new tactics, they didn't believe him, so Carby told Ender "to beat the snot out of them" in battle, as a personal favor. His honest and sympathetic behavior made Ender "mentally [add] him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings." He is transferred to Command School and serves under Ender during the Third Invasion, one of the few Jeesh members who was never in an army with Ender during Battle School.
Crazy Tom[edit]
Crazy Tom is a British student. He is a veteran soldier who leads the "C" toon in Dragon Army. He got his nickname due to his temperament, as he couldn't stand to work under commanders that he considered to be stupid. He wrecked rooms and once sent a message to every kid in the school about how bad his commander was. (And apparently a few students received the message before the teachers were able to intercept it.) As a result, he was constantly on the transfer lists (soldiers that commanders were willing to trade). He was also the most transferred soldier in Battle School history who hadn't been sent home. However, once he was under Ender, he cooled down and performed well. He later forms a sort of friendship with Bean, even helping him capture Achilles along with several other soldiers from Bean's army. Bean expects him to be the next to "blow out" after the others during the simulation against the Formics but instead he seems to become "saner" as the stress piles on. He later became a commander in the Formic War where they lead a "Third Invasion" and attack the Buggers to ensure the survival of humanity. By the time of Shadow of the Giant, he has become a lecturer on strategy at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Dumper[edit]
Dumper is the leader of "E" toon in Dragon's Army. He is described by Bean as being among the most worshipful of Ender. Along with the other toon leaders, he is part of Ender's "jeesh," the group that works under Ender in fighting the Formics.
After returning to Earth, he drops his Battle School nickname and is referred to in Shadow of the Giant by his real name, Champi T'it'u. He becomes a leader of his people, the Quechua natives of Latin America, in their search for independence. After being contacted by Peter Wiggin, T'it'u becomes one of the early supporters of the Free People of Earth, and the Quechua are one of the first two stateless peoples to be given a homeland, a nation called Runa, by the FPE. Some of their territory was voluntarily donated by FPE members Bolivia and Ecuador, the rest liberated by force from Peru. Rather than using Champi T'it'u's troops or the Brazilian military, the FPE sends Rwandan soldiers under the command of "The Giant" Julian Delphiki to emphasize that to war with one member of the FPE is to war with all of it.
Fly Molo[edit]
Fly Molo is a veteran soldier who leads A Toon in Dragon Army. He is portrayed initially as being contemptuous of Ender's five-toon formation, but later accepts it as wise, after arguing the concept with Bean. He was acting blatantly insubordinate and saying that it was a real "loser strategy," and when Bean stood up for Ender, who was at the time a very young commander, he got mad and almost hurt Bean, but finally he had to accept that Bean was smarter than him and that it was a good strategy. He becomes the third person (after Petra and Vlad) to "blow out" and no longer able to command a whole fleet of ships in the "simulated conflict". Instead, he has control of smaller groups of ships, not fleets, in the "game", after going hysterical and laughing after his fleet was destroyed. He comes back the next day, but Ender does not rely on him as heavily. In Shadow of the Hegemon, Dink says that Fly Molo has an extremely retentive memory; in one exercise where the teacher asked for a quote, Fly Molo recited the quote and pages after it. In Shadow of the Giant, it is revealed that he is from the Philippines.
Han Tzu[edit]
Main article: Han Tzu
Han Tzu (nicknamed Hot Soup) was a veteran soldier from China who commanded D Toon in Ender's Dragon Army. Eventually, he was shipped to Command School to become a member of Ender's jeesh, and was one of the commanders that served under him during the end of the Formic War. After the war Han Tzu returned to China before being kidnapped by Achilles. He later returned and became involved in military planning; however, the Chinese military's unwillingness to accept hard truths (such as the fact that The Middle Kingdom was not actually the center of the universe, and should act accordingly) led them to despise him for his practicality. In Shadow of the Giant, he leads a single-handed military coup and becomes Emperor of China, before eventually departing on an interstellar colony ship.
Petra Arkanian[edit]
Main article: Petra Arkanian
Petra Arkanian is an Armenian student who is the only female in the jeesh. During the Earth's invasion of the Bugger worlds, Ender relies on her heavily, often giving her complicated and critical assignments; she is the first student to burn out, falling asleep during a battle. She is a major character later on in the Shadow Series. She and Bean travel around the world, to stay alive, and eventually get married. Together they have children (nine embryos, one implanted in Petra and the other eight were stolen by Achilles; all but one are recovered by the end of Shadow of the Giant) and facilitate the downfall of Achilles.
Shen[edit]
Shen is a Japanese student who is part of Ender's group of launchies. He is introduced as the kid who has a big butt that wriggles when he walks and is constantly mocked by Bernard and his gang. Ender steps in and sends a number of messages under pseudonyms (such as "Cover your butt. Bernard is watching. - God") to break Bernard's control over the room. He becomes Ender's first friend in Battle School. He later guides Bean and tells him why the students love Ender.
Vlad[edit]
Born in Belarus under the New Warsaw Pact, Vlad is known as being a solid student who was always passed up in favor of more ambitious students in the various Battle School armies. Vlad is one of the 40 students chosen to serve in Dragon Army under the command of Ender, where he is made one of the five toon leaders of the army (in charge of "B" toon). Vlad is one of the eleven students that were chosen to be in Ender's jeesh, helping command the warships of the International Fleet against the Formics in the Third Invasion.
After the Formic War, Vlad is returned to Earth, where he is later recruited into the Russian military. He appears later in the series as an assistant to Achilles de Flandres. Achilles uses Vlad during his stay in Russia but drops him as soon as he is exposed by Bean. Vlad does not agree with Achilles's ideas at first, but after he manipulates Vlad by using Vlad's love for Russia, he is ready to do anything for Achilles.
Eventually, Vlad grows tired of being the pawn of the Russian government. He is ordered to draw up strategies for a purely hypothetical invasion of China, only to discover that the Russians plan to enact them when the Indians invade. Using the escape hatch offered to him by Hegemon Peter Wiggin and the International Fleet, Vlad escapes from Russia to warn the Free People of Earth of the planned Russian invasion of China, as well as the battle plans against Armenia and China from Muslim and Indian governments. Following the defection, Vlad, along with many of his fellow Jeeshmates, leaves Earth on one of the many Colony Ships going to recolonize the former Formic worlds, preventing themselves from being used by their countries' international politics and causing ever-increasing wars.
Other Battle School students[edit]
William Bee[edit]
William Bee is a minor character who is primarily notable due to his involvement in one of the more unusual battles in the "Battle Room". In the Battle School's first numerically handicapped battle, Ender Wiggin, commander of Dragon Army, was required to face both Bee's Griffin Army, as well as Talo Momoe's Tiger Army. With a two-to one disadvantage and an unfairly stacked battle room, Wiggin's odds to win are nearly impossible. In an inventive maneuver, Wiggin sends all of his soldiers into the battle room in extremely vulnerable positions (incurring heavy losses), but manages to win by carrying out the "victory ritual" without disabling all of the enemy soldiers. This was the only time anyone had used such a strategy, and it was banned thereafter. When Ender gets upset at Anderson, the Game Administrator, William Bee notes that "Ender, if you're on one side of the battle, it won't be equal no matter what the conditions are."
Bernard[edit]
Bernard is part of Ender's launch group and treats the precocious Ender with great contempt (partly due to the fact that Ender had broken Bernard's arm on the shuttle to the Battle School). Bernard is also seen as a ringleader and the main antagonist in the first few chapters of the book, and he takes great delight in picking on Ender and Shen, a young boy who is also in the launchy group. However, his stranglehold on the clique falls apart when Ender and Alai become friends in the battle room, and after Ender manages to hack into the computer system and posts a message saying "Cover your butts, Bernard is watching," signed "God." Later Ender also writes another note, seemingly by Bernard, saying "I love your butt, let me kiss it. - Bernard." Bernard is one of the six students who accompanies Bonzo Madrid when he fights Ender in the bathroom.
Nikolai Delphiki[edit]
Nikolai Delphiki is a major character of the book Ender's Shadow and a side character in Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card.
Nikolai is one of twenty-four fertilized eggs produced by Greek natives Elena Delphiki and Julian Delphiki, Sr. A defect in one of Elena's fallopian tube and an ectopic pregnancy in the other made it impossible for her to conceive. In their hopes for a child, Elena had several eggs taken out, and Julian's sperm was harvested to produce numerous fertilized eggs. The healthiest were cloned, and then the twenty-four healthiest of those were chosen. One was implanted, producing Nikolai.
However, a man named Dr. Volescu, the illegitimate son of Julian's father, stole the twenty-three remaining fertilized eggs for use in his experiments involving the modification of a human genome. Volescu later chose to exterminate the babies instead of being discovered, and twenty-two were killed. However, one child escaped, hiding in a toilet tank. The child then was discovered by a janitor, and was later named Bean.
Nikolai was later chosen for Battle School, where he met his (although not known at the time) biological twin brother Bean.
Achilles de Flandres[edit]
Main article: Achilles de Flandres
A native of Belgium, Achilles (pronounced, as in the French manner, ah-SHEEL) grows up in the dangerous streets of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, crippled, but not helpless. Achilles is established as an enemy of one of the main characters, Julian "Bean" Delphiki, another street urchin of Rotterdam. Both Achilles and Bean are considered for Battle School, the training ground for Earth's interstellar military; Bean is accepted, but Achilles is deemed too unstable and violent. Achilles is later sent to Battle School simply as a test for Bean - Colonel Graff wants to see how Bean will deal with the resurfacing of his old nemesis from Rotterdam. Bean tricks Achilles into a trap in an air shaft, forcing him to confess all of his murders onto a recorded tape, which Bean shows to the school's administrators. This results in Achilles' expulsion and placement in a mental institution.
He soon escapes, and is the main focus of the books Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets, in which he nearly takes over the world in a series of brilliant political maneuvers. He nearly succeeds, and is only countered by Peter Wiggin's desperate attempts to unite the world peacefully. Finally, to secure his escape, he kidnaps Bean's and Petra's unimplanted embryos and attempts to trade them for freedom. Instead, Bean kills him, though Bean also provides for his funeral and gravestone.
Bonzo Madrid[edit]
Bonzo Madrid (pronounced "bone-so", as stated by Petra Arkanian when Ender incorrectly pronounces the name as "bahn-zoe") is an antagonistic supporting character, serving to bring out Ender's brutal nature while at Battle School.
Bonzo, whose real name is Bonito de Madrid, is described as a strikingly beautiful boy of aristocratic Spanish lineage from the town of Cartagena. As commander of Salamander Army, the autocratic Bonzo suddenly has Ender Wiggin thrust upon him when Ender is promoted from his launch group. Bonzo was forced to give up a veteran soldier (a toon leader) to make room for Ender, is further furious because Ender has virtually no experience in the Battle Room. Bonzo takes out these frustrations on Ender and as a supposed punishment, he forces Ender to do desk work when his army is practicing. He also prevents Ender from participating in battles until after 4 minutes have elapsed, and, even then, Ender is forbidden from firing his gun. This causes Ender's individual soldier ranking to be high, and Bonzo hopes that this will help him trade Ender to some other army.
Desperate to gain experience, Ender begins to practice with many "launchies," younger students at the Battle School who have not yet been assigned to an army. After Bonzo orders Ender to stop these practices, Ender antagonizes Bonzo by privately threatening to have Bonzo "iced" (kicked out of Battle School) if Bonzo does not rescind the order. Ender inadvertently makes the situation worse by explaining to Bonzo how Bonzo should rescind the order. Later, Ender disobeys Bonzo's standing order to not fire his weapon during battle, turning a defeat for Salamander army into a draw. Rather than being grateful that, by firing his gun, Ender helped the team, Bonzo hits him for disobeying orders to not fire his gun and transfers him to Rat Army. This backfires on Bonzo, however, and he loses the discipline he had with his army because they understood that Ender's "disobedience" had been beneficial.
While still at Battle School, Bonzo has a couple of encounters with Bean. The first of which involved Bean playing along with Bonzo's pride and honor to learn about Ender Wiggin, and showed a possibly more friendly side of Bonzo. When asked about the continuous comparisons between Bean and Ender, Bonzo warmly replies that it only means he is younger yet expected to perform at their level; a pathetic joke to him. In his later encounter, where he and his friends attempt to intimidate him. Bean replies with insults, causing Bonzo to act out in anger. He pins Bean against the wall by his neck. Bean's reach is too short to defend himself and Bonzo strangles him almost to the point of fainting. Bean then believes he has fed Bonzo's anger and made things worse for Ender. He realizes how crazy Bonzo is and attempts to tell the teachers, who do not deal with the problem, allowing it to escalate.
Following a battle where Ender, now a commander, defeats Salamander Army, Bonzo is finally provoked beyond sanity. Ender, enraged at the Battle School teachers, accidentally humiliates Bonzo during the end of battle ceremony. Bonzo and a group of his cronies corner Ender completely naked in one of the Battle School showers. Ender manages to use Bonzo's honor against him and shame Bonzo into engaging him in one-on-one combat. Taking advantage of the slipperiness of his still-soapy skin, Ender evades Bonzo and quickly wins the battle, accidentally killing the boy. Bonzo is sent home to his family in a bodybag, ironically on the same shuttle that transports Ender back to Earth on short leave. Ender does not know what happened to Bonzo, but he dreams about the fight when he is being trained in Command School. He vocalizes his fear that he thinks he killed Bonzo, and his realization is confirmed during Hyrum Graff's court martial, where vids taken of the fight are used in an attempt to prove that Ender was abused by the Battle School staff.
The Bonzo incident is pivotal in Ender's development, as it forces him to realize that he must fend for himself at all times, as the teachers refuse to offer him help — an attitude fostered by Graff. Believing isolation was the environment under which Ender would become the military genius needed for the Third Invasion, Graff attempts to put a psychological barrier between him and the other Battle School students at every opportunity. Despite this goal, he never intends to endanger the life of any student of the Battle School. By forcing Ender to take on Bonzo alone, without any adult intervention, Graff makes a mistake that stays with him through the rest of his career, one he continues to think of when making future decisions, and validating his own work.
Bonzo is also the main character of a short story, released in the second issue of "Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show", called Pretty Boy. This short story, taking place before Ender's Game, explores Bonzo's childhood, detailing some of his family life and some events that contribute to his sense of honor and eventual downfall.
Talo Momoe[edit]
Talo Momoe is the commander of one of the numerous armies at Battle School. He is paired up with William Bee's army in a battle against Ender's undefeated Dragon Army. Momoe favors a very direct approach, and argues with Bee that, because they outnumber Ender, they should do a frontal assault. Bee's disagreement leads to a prolonged war of words. After Ender comes out with a formation, Momoe orders his army to rebound and assault the army directly.
Rose de Nose[edit]
Rose de Nose, although his first name is Rosen, is the commander of Rat Army when Ender is transferred there. Rose de Nose is also the only Jewish commander at the time in Battle School, which he uses as a crutch of sorts, as military legend has it that Jewish commanders never lose. Rose de Nose treats Ender with considerably more decency than does Bonzo Madrid, the commander of Ender's first army, Salamander Army. He is also much more lax about rules; the Rat Army barracks are messy when compared to the discipline and order of Salamander. Rose attempts to impose rules on Ender, but Dink Meeker tells Ender not to listen. As a result, Rose sends Ender out on what is, in essence, a suicide run at the beginning of Ender's first battle with Rat Army so that he will get immediately frozen. Instead, due to his unique "legs first" strategy, he is able to disable or freeze many of the enemies' soldiers to give Rat Army a sizable advantage. Rose gives up picking on Ender, and leaves him to do things his own way. By the time Ender and his group of companions rise to prominence, Rose de Nose has already graduated from Battle School.
Pol Slattery[edit]
Pol Slattery is a recurring commander that Ender twice faces at Battle School. In their first known battle, Ender was still a soldier in Bonzo's Salamander Army and Slattery was the new commander of the lowly Leopard Army. What everyone expected to be an easy battle turned into an upset by Slattery. Ender, who had been given orders by Bonzo to stay in the corridor until four minutes after everyone had gone through and then stay in the corner of the battle room, begins to observe Slattery's strategies and is impressed. Despite being young, Slattery is sharp and has new ideas; he always keeping his army moving against the stolid Salamanders who are unable to adapt to the situation. Eventually Leopard annihilates the entire Salamander Army, not including Ender. When Slattery is about to send his remaining men to open the gates, Ender ambushes them and takes out enough men to end the game in a draw. Despite helping Salamander Army achieve a tie, Bonzo is furious at Ender for disobeying his orders and would later cause more troubles for Ender.
Years later, Ender faces Pol Slattery again in the battleroom. This time Ender leads his Dragon Army against Pol Slattery's Badger Army. Despite winning most of their previous battles with ease, the battle is a grueling affair that takes a lot out of Dragon Army. This is because Slattery's Badger Army has been given the unfair advantage of having their soldiers thaw out after 5 minutes when their soldiers are only damaged or disabled. Only by completely freezing them do they stay out of action the whole time. However this gradual thawing does not work for Dragon Army and thus becomes another wrinkle by the teachers to see how Ender handles a disadvantageous situation. Thanks to Crazy Tom's quick realization(it is later revealed to be Bean's doing), Dragon Army eventually figures out what's happening and wins the battle. Afterwards, Pol Slattery graciously shakes hands with Ender and tells him, "I'm glad you won. If I ever beat you, Ender, I want to do it fair". When Ender replies that he should always use any advantage given to him, Slattery grins and replies, "Oh I did. I'm only fair-minded before and after battles." Nothing more is written about Slattery as he was not part of Ender's jeesh.
Suriyawong[edit]
Suriyawong is a graduate of Battle School who served in Dragon Army. Following the Formic wars, Suriyawong has been given a place of prominence in the Thai military. Although initially threatened by Bean's presence, Suriyawong and Bean quickly become friends as they train and lead their elite company of Thai soldiers. The two of them lead their company on several daring raids. He participates in the successful operation to rescue Petra Arkanian from the grasp of the expansionist Chinese.
In Shadow Puppets, Suriyawong is ordered by the Hegemon Peter Wiggin to rescue Achilles, the psychopath whose actions resulted in the occupation of his homeland. Suriyawong disobeys his orders slightly: instead of rescuing Achilles directly, he instead slides him a knife, telling him to solve his own problems. Fearing for the life of Virlomi, whom he has come to love, he warns her to flee from the compound before Achilles arrives. After successfully bringing Achilles within the Hegemony compound, Suriyawong serves Achilles faithfully, to such an extent that all other characters in the story begin to question his allegiance. However, it is revealed that he has served Achilles only to be in a position to betray him and cement his downfall, which happens during the fateful confrontation between Achilles and Bean. Achilles, weaponless against Bean's gun, orders Suriyawong to shoot Bean, but Suriyawong once again slides Achilles a knife, telling him to solve his own problems.
He is absent during most of Shadow of the Giant. He leads the troops trained by Bean in defense of Nubia, after which he is mostly involved in the Thai resistance to foreign control, and is the commander of the force that defeats Virlomi's Indian army, and successfully returns Virlomi to her senses.
Virlomi[edit]
Virlomi is an Indian girl whose prominent role is in Shadow of the Giant.
Virlomi's home country, India, through alliances with Caliph Alai's Muslim armies, works to repel the Chinese invasion. However, upon successful repelling of the invading forces, India was subsequently occupied by their Muslim allies. When Battle School disbanded, Virlomi becomes the spiritual and physical reawakening of India by assuming the role of a goddess. Standing on a bridge, she blesses Hindu India as Mother India. She denounces the Islamic faith as one that is not "true," since practitioners cannot stop being Muslim without being killed by radical Muslims. At the same time, she rejoices in the trueness of Hinduism for allowing that choice. On international television, she declares that true Islam requires freedom and peace. She draws the mark of Shiva the Destroyer upon her forehead and calls upon the subjugated continent of India to rise up against the Muslim occupation.
Han Tzu proposes to Virlomi, in an attempt to secure an alliance against Alai's Crescent League. Virlomi rejects him, as she has decided that only one man is fit for her hand in marriage - Peter Wiggin, the Hegemon of the FPE. However, Peter knows that a marriage with Virlomi would ruin his chances of bringing the world into the FPE, and rejects her. She then tempts Alai to marry her, and uses him to effectively take control of the Muslim League. She allies India and the Muslim league with Russia, and invades China. Suriyawong's Thai army thwarts the attempt, and Virlomi agrees to surrender. At the end of the novel, she goes to the Indian colony world of Ganges, the first planet that humans colonize that was not originally colonized by the Formics.
At some point after this, Virlomi becomes head of a colony called Andhra. She then becomes caught in the struggle between Randall Firth and Ender (as depicted in Ender in Exile).
Zeck[edit]
Zechariah Morgan is an American boy, mentioned only in the novella, A War of Gifts. Zeck is a member of Rat army, but due to his orthodox Christian upbringing, is a pacifist and refuses to fire in the Battleroom. Throughout the novella, he comes into conflict with Dink and Ender, ruining Dink's latest rebellion, but at the end, he is accepted as a person and treated as such. His future after Battle School's closing is unknown.
Pinual[edit]
Pinual is a minor character mentioned briefly when Ender encounters the Giant's Drink puzzle in the Fantasy Game, a puzzle meant to determine how suicidal a person is. Major Anderson mentions that Ender seems like Pinual because he keeps returning to the Giant's Drink, to which Hyrum Graff replies that "Everybody looks like Pinual at one time or another. But he's the only one who killed himself." When Ender returns to Earth after Bonzo Madrid's death, Major Imbu mentions that Pinual is the only student in the history of the Battle School to have committed suicide.
Wu[edit]
Wu is the only girl in Dragon Army. She is given the nickname "Woo-hoo" during her time in battle school. Because of her name, she is most likely of Asian origin. She is one of the few soldiers that Bean managed to nab for the Dragon Army roster. Wu is a brilliant soldier both academically and physically, but always refuses to become a Toon Leader. When a commander asks her to, she puts in a transfer request and refuses to fight until it is granted.

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Alai (Ender's Game)

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Alai (pronounced ah-lie) is a major character in Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card. He appears in the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant. He is a Battle School student of North African descent.
In Battle School, Alai is an exceptional student, adroit in the battle room, and is one of the first kids to befriend Ender, in one of the early battle room training sessions that they are both a part of. He also helps lead the special launchy training sessions Ender conducts. These training sessions developed the skills of students in the zero-gravity game that is played at Battle School. This game is designed to teach students military tactics and skills. Alai is considered to be almost as good strategically as Ender is.
However, when Ender becomes commander of Dragon Army, they have a falling-out of sorts. Ender attempts to rekindle the friendship by proposing "salaam" again; but Alai says it is not to be, and tells him of the meaning, which is "peace." Alai is also one of the final eleven commanders, Ender's Jeesh, that lead under Ender's command during the Third Invasion in which the Buggers are eliminated.
In Shadow Puppets, Alai has become a caliph for the Muslim nations: their chief military, political and spiritual leader. He then successfully orchestrates a combined attack against China, removing from China's control both its recent acquisitions in India and the rest of Southern Asia. He also divides up other provinces of China, such as Tibet (independent now), Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia (given to Mongolia).
In Shadow of the Giant, Alai's empire starts to fall apart due to the actions of extremists. He faces a China under the control of Han Tzu, a fellow jeesh member; and India under the control of the Battle School graduate Virlomi, who has declared herself a Hindu Goddess. Alai allies with India by marrying Virlomi, but turmoil leads the extremists and the Indian people to conspire against him. Alai flees his empire after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt. After peace is restored, Alai leaves Earth with the help of the International Fleet to colonize another world.

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Bean (Ender's Game)

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Julian Delphiki II
Ender's Game character
First appearance
"Ender's Game"
Last appearance
Shadows in Flight
Created by
Orson Scott Card
Portrayed by
Aramis Knight
Information

Family
Julian Delphiki I (father)
 Elena Delphiki (mother)
Nikolai Delphiki (brother)
Constantine Volescu (half-uncle)
Spouse(s)
Petra Arkanian
Children
Ender Delphiki
 Carlotta Delphiki
 Cincinnatus Delphiki
 Andrew Delphiki
 Bella Delphiki
 Ramón Delphiki
 Julian Delphiki III
 Petra Delphiki II
 Arkanian Delphiki
Julian Delphiki II, more commonly known by his nickname Bean, is a major character in the Ender's Game series of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card. A friend of Ender Wiggin, Bean is an important supporting character in Ender's Game, and the main character of the eponymous Bean Quartet (or Shadow Saga as it is officially known), which consists of Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant. Bean is also featured in Card's latest novel, Shadows in Flight, which was released on January 17, 2012.
Aramis Knight will portray him in the Ender's Game film.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Ender's Shadow
2 Shadow of the Hegemon
3 Shadow Puppets
4 Shadow of the Giant
5 Shadows in Flight
6 References
Ender's Shadow[edit]
At the age of four, Bean is living on the streets of Rotterdam.[1] He is ostracized by the other children on the streets for his small size. Desperate for food, Bean talks to Poke, the leader of a small gang of children, called a crew. Poke names Bean when she flippantly tells him that he isn't worth a bean. But he proceeds to convince her to give him food in exchange for him giving her an idea. He advises Poke to have her crew gang up on one of the bullies who prowl the streets, and get him to work for her crew. When Poke agrees and attempts to attack Achilles (pronounced 'ah-shiile'), a bully with a crippled foot, Bean is struck with foreboding. Soon after, though Achilles makes a good 'papa' to the crew, getting them into the soup kitchen and protecting them, his insane need to kill anyone who has seen him in a vulnerable position causes him to murder Poke. This marks the end of Bean's street career.
Subsequently, Sister Carlotta, an unconventional nun, recognizes Bean's and Achilles' intelligence, and plucks them out of life on the street, to be trained at Battle School, though Achilles' entrance is delayed by his need for surgery to correct his leg. At school, Bean makes it clear that his abilities far exceed the possible—for a human. While Bean is studying at Battle School, Sister Carlotta does some research, and soon discovers that Bean is actually the son of Julian and Elena Delphiki, parents of Nikolai, a fellow Battle School student. Bean and 22 other fertilized eggs were stolen from a lab, genetically altered by his half Uncle, Constantine Volescu, then matured in artificial conditions. The 23 babies were then reared in a lab that was experimenting with augmented intelligence. When the lab was raided, the one-year-old Bean was able to hide in a toilet tank and escape being killed.
The alteration made was to turn a genetic key—called Anton's Key for the scientist who discovered it—which greatly enhanced Bean's mental powers, but will cost him the greater part of his life. Small as he is at age six, he will eventually die a giant before he turns 25, his half-uncle predicts.
At the Battle School, Bean knows nothing of these events except what he can glean from his expeditions through the ventilation system. As an extremely bright boy with a knack for extrapolation, he decides that to wait for the Formics (Buggers) to come and attack Earth would be strategic suicide. He states that the best idea would be a human invasion, The Third Invasion, and correctly guesses that such a fleet is already on its way to the Bugger home world.
Meanwhile, Bean does much work behind the scenes, putting together Ender's Dragon Army and helping as much as he can. In the final battle of the Third Invasion, it is Bean's wry remark in reaction to the impossible task ahead ("The enemy's gate is down") which trigger's Ender's ultimately successful venture.
The book ends with Bean being told of his past, and then meeting his parents for the first time.
Though Bean is only seven when the Buggers are eliminated, it is later stated that he does not return to Earth and his parents until age eleven. This four-year difference is due to the turmoil that existed on Earth from the subsequent power play from the different Earth powers.
Shadow of the Hegemon[edit]
Bean's tranquil life with the Delphikis is short-lived. While the family is on vacation, Achilles, who, since the events of Ender's Shadow, has used his considerable intellect to gain influence and power in Russia and other empire-minded countries, tries to kill them outright. Bean and the Delphikis separate; Bean goes into hiding with Sister Carlotta, and the Delphiki family disappears with the help of Graff. Bean later learns that Achilles has captured all of Ender's "jeesh" (the command group that was with Ender during the final battles of the Formic Wars) except for Bean (whom he tried to kill) and Ender (who is among the first to colonize a former bugger world). Bean later allies himself with Peter Wiggin to combat this threat. Bean is most concerned for Petra's welfare, and finds a coded message sent by Petra that leads to the release of all of Ender's jeesh except for her. Achilles captures Petra while she is being released and takes her to India where he already has a position of power. From there he negotiates a non-aggression pact between India and Pakistan. This agreement allows India to pursue an empire in Southeast Asia and Pakistan to prepare for a war to unite the Islamic nations.
Bean travels to Thailand, which is threatened by a newly adventurous India, where he helps train a strike force under Suriyawong (a member of Ender's Dragon Army). He assumes the name Borommakot, the name of a former Thai king. Another assassination attempt on him (and Suriyawong) leads Bean to request Sister Carlotta's presence. Achilles, however, shoots down the plane in which she is traveling. Near the end of the novel, Bean engineers a rescue mission in which he successfully, and without casualties on either side, rescues Petra from Achilles, who has betrayed India by making them vulnerable to the Chinese. India and all of Southeast Asia is conquered by China. Pakistan aborts their war with the rest of the Islamic nations in order to unite with them against this new enemy. A subsequent scene at Sister Carlotta's cenotaph foreshadows Bean and Petra's future romance. Finally, Peter Wiggin, newly elected Hegemon, bestows the office of Strategos on Bean. Peter relocates the main Hegemony offices to Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, where Bean and his family are reunited.
Shadow Puppets[edit]
Following Peter's decision to free Achilles and bring him to Ribeirão Preto, Bean and Petra leave the Hegemon's employ and travel the world under false identities to remain hidden to Achilles. Bean meets with Ambul, a former soldier under Bean in Battle School's Rabbit Army, and gives him the task of finding a way to meet with Alai, who has dropped out of sight but is assumed to be highly placed in the Muslim defense forces. In an attempt to convince Bean to have children, Bean and Petra meet with Anton, the scientist who discovered Anton's Key, and then with Volescu, who genetically enhanced Bean's embryo by turning it. Bean is assured by Volescu that he can determine the status of Anton's Key within an embryo, and agrees to create nine embryos but destroy those with Anton's Key turned. Volescu implants one of the embryos into Petra, appears to destroy three more, and places the remaining five into safekeeping under the eye of a guard hired by Bean. However, Volescu faked the destruction of the three embryos in the lab and bribes the guard to reacquire the other five.
Bean and Petra split up; Bean places Petra in the cab of an Indonesian cabdriver secretly in the employ of the Caliph, who takes her to the airport to fly to Damascus. Bean gets into a different cab and is nearly assassinated by the driver. Saved by other agents of the Caliph, he also makes his way to meet with Petra and Alai. While in Damascus, Achilles contacts Bean to tell him that he possesses the five stolen embryos, offering him a chance to meet at the Hegemon compound and take them back. Bean flies to Brazil and kills Achilles, having already decided that Achilles was lying about possessing the embryos and that Volescu must still have them. Petra flies to Brazil to meet up with Bean again and settle down in Araraquara, a city Bean had visited while traveling with Sister Carlotta. The novel ends with Bean and Petra determined to find the stolen embryos.
Shadow of the Giant[edit]
In this novel, Bean is around 16 years old (his exact age is unknown because Volescu destroyed all of his records, and author Orson Scott Card does not specify anyone's particular age throughout the novel). Anton's Key has caused his body to undergo rapidly accelerated growth; he is becoming extremely tall and strong, and is nicknamed "the African Giant" by the Rwandans, due to his noticeably African features. Bean's time left is very limited; there is simply not enough time left to him to find a cure.
As commander, Bean plays a pivotal role in helping Peter unite the world under the Hegemony. Peter creates the Free People of Earth (FPE) organization. To join, the population of a country must hold plebiscites to vote to ratify the FPE constitution as their own. Once part of the FPE, a country is protected by FPE military forces. Rwanda is one of the earliest countries to agree to join FPE. However, Felix Starman, the head of Rwanda, requests that Giant Julian lead the Rwandan army. Aside from Bean being the greatest military mind in human history, having a commander with some African heritage and features would play to the patriotic side of the Rwandan soldiers. Bean turns the Rwandan army into an irresistible force. The effectiveness of his leadership initially frightens many countries into holding plebiscites to discuss joining FPE rather than getting defeated by an army Bean commands.
Taking the advice of the Minister of Colonization Graff, Bean follows in Ender's footsteps, living at relativistic light-speed along with the three of his children who share his disorder, in the hope that a cure can be found for the condition, while Petra and Bean's five 'normal' children remain on Earth. It is revealed that a ninth child of Bean's, who also has Anton's Key, was birthed by and is under the care of a woman named Randi, who plans to take the child with her to a colony world and raise him as Achilles' heir. By the end of the novel decades later, a cure has still not been discovered, and it is unknown how Bean lives the remainder of his life. The fate of Bean's ninth child is revealed in Card's novel Ender in Exile.
Shadows in Flight[edit]
As he continues to grow, twenty-two-year-old Bean has reached a height of four and a half meters and is relegated to the cargo hold of his relativistic spaceship. Bean is able to monitor the work of his three now six-year-old "antonite" children. His son, Andrew "Ender" Delphiki, is determined to find a "cure" for Anton's Key.
Bean and his children find a new world and settle in it. His son 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.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Chung, Jennifer (31 August 1991). "Ender's Shadow". The Tech. Retrieved 3 June 2012.

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 War of Gifts·
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Han Tzu (nicknamed Hot Soup) is a major character in Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card. He appears in the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, and Ender in Exile and is the protagonist of the short story "Cheater" which revolves around his childhood.
Hot Soup was one of forty students at the International Fleet's Battle School assigned to Ender Wiggin's Dragon Army. Thus, he became a member of the finest fighting force ever seen at Battle School. He was also made a toon leader, with operational command of a fifth of the army during battle. Once Ender graduated, Dragon Army's leadership was cannibalized and redistributed to the other armies, with every toon leader and deputy assigned as commander to a different army; Hot Soup was presumably one of them, though which army he led was never specified. Finally, he was shipped to Command School to become a member of Ender's jeesh, and was one of the commanders that served under him during the end of the Formic War.
After the Formic War, after briefly returning to Tactical school to finish his high school education, Han Tzu returns to China. However, he is soon disgusted by the corrupt and incompetent military hierarchy. Under the leadership of Achilles de Flandres, China manages to conquer the nation of India as well as much of Southeast Asia. However, he loses it to the liberating forces of Caliph Alai and the newly formed Muslim Crescent League. The Chinese leadership, inculcated into its own myth of invincibility, refuses to surrender until it loses not only all its new territory, but a good deal of Han China as well; Han Tzu's sound (and sane) military advice on the subject is entirely ignored. After Han Tzu stands up and bluntly tells his military superiors that they are fools, he expects to be arrested and executed for his temerity, but his fate is left hanging as Shadow Puppets ends.
In Shadow of the Giant, Han Tzu is still alive, despite over a month having passed. He meets Mazer Rackham in a restaurant. Rackham offers him an escape route—passage to and governorship of an interstellar colony—and when Han refuses, hands him a blow gun disguised as a pen, calling it the "Mandate of Heaven". With the aid of this pen, Han Tzu overthrows the government. The soldiers (who were sent to arrest him many times, but knew of his reputation and were consistently "unable to locate Han Tzu's apartment") assassinate the current leader and the entire nation rallies behind Han Tzu, as they felt they were disgraced when foreign troops entered China.
Chinese policy under Han Tzu is conciliatory and hospitable. He takes as many steps as possible towards securing the goodwill of his formerly-conquered neighbors, including releasing (former) political leaders to their native lands, and turns most of his efforts towards internal reconstruction and pacification. He makes no efforts to reclaim conquered territory; in his opinion, the entire war was a waste. He builds trust and goodwill amongst his soldiers, joking with them and living like them, and soon has an army with high morale to lead into battle.
He is able to successfully defend China from the invading forces from Russia, India, and the Crescent League by creating an alliance with Thailand and the Free People of Earth. He leads an army in the north and defeats an invading Russian army by drawing the Russians into a trap by destroying a dam and manages to defeat an invading Indian army from the south. At some point after this, he too departs for the stars, joining many of Ender's jeesh in leading Earth's efforts at colonization.
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Petra Arkanian

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Petra Arkanian
Ender's Game character
First appearance
Ender's Game
Last appearance
Ender in Exile
Created by
Orson Scott Card
Portrayed by
Hailee Steinfeld
Information

Family
Stefan Arkanian (brother)
 David Arkanian (brother)
Spouse(s)
Julian Delphiki II
Peter Wiggin
Children
Ender Delphiki
 Carlotta Delphiki
 Cincinnatus Delphiki
 Andrew Delphiki
 Bella Delphiki
 Ramón Delphiki
 Julian Delphiki III
 Petra Delphiki II
 Arkanian Delphiki
 Five others (by Peter Wiggin)
Petra Arkanian is a major Armenian character in the Ender's Game series of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card. She appears as a supporting character in Ender's Game, and takes on a larger role in Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets.
Academy Award nominee Hailee Steinfeld will portray her in the Ender's Game film.
Ender's Game[edit]
In Ender's Game, Petra who is of Armenian descent, is one of the few female students at the Battle School. As something of an outcast herself, she acts as an older sister towards Ender Wiggin and teaches him how to shoot. In Shadow of the Hegemon, it's mentioned that one of her teachers found her so aggressive that he actually had her genome scanned to make sure she wasn't a boy.
Petra becomes a member of Ender's "jeesh," or informal team and as such she rejoins him in Command School, where she serves as one of his most capable lieutenants during the campaigns against the Buggers. He relies on her so heavily, in fact, that he pushes her too hard and she finally breaks during combat, dozing off from exhaustion and causing a number of casualties. Although she recovers, she loses her aggressive edge and she never quite trusts herself again, believing herself to be weak and unreliable, a judgment that later events prove wrong.
Shadow series[edit]
Throughout the Shadow series, Petra serves as a point of insecurity and necessity for Bean. He feels compelled to protect her, due to his failings to protect other important people in his life. In his early life he left his friend Poke alone, and she was murdered by Bean's continual nemesis Achilles de Flandres. When Petra is later captured by Achilles, Bean strives to rescue her. The subsequent death of his long-time friend and caretaker Sister Carlotta drives him even more to rescue Petra.
While believing she was a weak link in Ender's team, Petra continually fights Achilles when in captivity, and she is able to use his insecurities to both keep herself alive, and expose Achilles to danger. In fact, Achilles has a short "romance" with Petra. Her actions also end up preparing and aiding several other captives of Achilles, once Bean finally comes to rescue her.
Throughout the rest of the series, Petra and Bean's relationship evolves. Petra initially claims that she wants Bean's children because he is the man with the most desirable DNA, although she later makes it quite clear that she wants Bean's children because she loves him. Bean is reluctant, due to the fact that he considers his genetic abnormality to be a very large negative, and does not want to pass it on to his children. Petra and Bean do end up marrying, in Spain, while on the run from Achilles, and having children via in vitro fertilization.
Before Achilles dies, he acquires eight samples of Bean and Petra's embryos, and has them implanted in different women all over the world. Finding these children becomes a major plot point, and Petra is very fervent in the search. Being a mother, she seems to really grow as a character, showing much more sentimentality than she did in earlier books. She gives birth to little Ender, who unfortunately has Bean's genetic defect.
They then go on to find, with the help of the Hegemony and the I.F. Bella and Ramon–both of whom were named by their surrogate parents, and only Bella had Anton's key turned. However, when the I.F. found the other five children, only one of them having Bean's genetic defect. However, when Bean decides to go off into space, light-years ahead, he takes with him the three of his children with the defect. But because no one was to know of the ship taking off from Earth and Bean was supposed to be dead, two of the children found were also named Bella and Andrew. Bean later refers to the Andrew that he took with him as 'Ender', and Bella as 'Carlotta', after the nun who became his mother in his heart. Also, he decided to call the girl with Petra, named Petra–not wanting the children to get confused when he told them of their mother–he decided to call her 'Poke', after the nine-year-old girl who sacrificed her life for his when he was only a small four-year-old on the streets of Rotterdam–his father, as he calls her later in the book. Following Bean's 'death' (In actuality, he faked his death with the help of Hyrum Graff and went into self-imposed exile in space to prolong his genetically shortened lifespan), Petra eventually marries Peter Wiggin, the Hegemon and brother of Ender Wiggin even though she loves Bean. At the end of the novel, when Petra is alone at Peter's grave, she tells him that she loves him, even though she never stopped loving Bean.

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 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
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"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
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 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
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 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
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Achilles de Flandres

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Achilles de Flandres (/ɑːʃiːl/, not */ɑːkɪlɨz/)[note 1] is a fictional character, the antagonist in Orson Scott Card's Shadow series (also known as the Bean Quartet). The series is set in a part of the universe created in the novel and short story Ender's Game. The character appears in the novels Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant.
Even though the character is a native of Belgium, Achilles grows up on the streets of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, a setting that Card portrays as dangerous. At the start of the series, the Netherlands is subject to international jurisdiction during the global emergency of the Formic or Bugger Wars, leading to an influx of refugee children; Achilles is a part of this influx. The character is subsequently depicted as a brilliant sociopath whose tactical genius and powerful charisma threaten humanity.

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  [hide] 1 Ender's Shadow
2 Shadow of the Hegemon
3 Shadow Puppets
4 Shadow of the Giant
5 Notes
6 References
Ender's Shadow[edit]
Near the beginning of the series, Achilles is established as an enemy of one of the main characters, Julian "Bean" Delphiki, another citizen of Rotterdam. Both Achilles and Bean are considered for Battle School, the training ground for Earth's interstellar military; Bean is accepted, but Achilles is deemed too unstable and violent. Achilles is later sent to Battle School as a test for Bean: Colonel Graff wants to see how Bean will handle his old nemesis. It is suggested that Achilles is not aware at this point that Bean considers him an enemy, as he is not aware that Bean knows he killed Bean's friend, Poke. Bean tricks Achilles into a trap in an air shaft, forcing him to recount all his murders onto a recorded tape, which Bean shows to the school's administrators. This results in Achilles' expulsion and placement in a mental institution. Bean hopes that with his confession made public, Achilles would be unable to hurt anyone ever again.
The teachers remark on the irony that Bean, the street urchin who struggled on the streets of Rotterdam, ends his problems nonviolently, while Ender Wiggin, a similar child with a stable, fairly comfortable middle class upbringing from the United States, kills the boy who attacks him in the bathroom, defeating his enemies so they will never be able to attack him again. Bean eventually becomes an assistant to Ender and a hero of the Third Invasion.
At the end of the novel, it is revealed that a mental institution was compromised by the Second Warsaw Pact in an attempt to gain the mind of the ex-Battle School student. Three security guards were dead, but all of the escaped prisoners are accounted for save one: Achilles.
Shadow of the Hegemon[edit]
Achilles, meanwhile, positions himself to take advantage of Earth's political circumstances after the end of the Bugger Wars. In a series of political and military maneuvers, he establishes a pattern. His modus operandi is to convince a set of influential leaders in a major country that his tactical genius is at their military's disposal. He uses his charisma to rise to a position of high influence in his host country's military, and prepares detailed plans for their geopolitical objectives. Once he has positioned forces in-country, he makes overtures to a neighboring power. At the point of his hosts' greatest confidence, he betrays and destroys them before transferring to a new country to repeat the cycle. With each repetition, Achilles' host country is a larger and more powerful entity than the one before. Achilles uses this tactic time after time to become influential in Russia, Pakistan, India and China.
He is rescued from the mental institution by Russian agents. While in Russia he arranges for the members of Ender's Jeesh to be kidnapped and set to work on making plans for Russia. Bean is the exception whom he attempts to have assassinated. The kidnapped children sabotage Achilles' plans. Of the nine kidnapped children he seems most interested in Petra. During their captivity Petra manages to slip a coded message into an avatar-like picture of a dragon. The message relays their location and is meant for Bean. When the children are rescued Achilles decides to take Petra with him.
After an exposé reveals his killing streak, Russia dumps him. He recruits India and persuades them to mount an all-out offensive on Burma. This requires the country to defend long supply lines that Bean (who is training soldiers in Thailand in an effort to stop him) constantly disrupts. India becomes overextended, exposing itself to China and rapidly depleting its resources. India unsuccessfully attempts to take over Thailand. Achilles, allies himself to China and leads that army to conquer India.
At the same time, Achilles repeatedly uses his power to attempt to kill Bean. His first attempt is at Bean's family's vacation home in the beginning of the novel, followed by an attack on a safehouse guarded by the Greek army (unaware that Bean had left). Near the end, he destroys another building, attempting to kill both Suriyawong and Bean. The latter, acting on a feeling of foreboding, once again gets out in time. However, Achilles is successful in another homicidal plan; he manages to kill Sister Carlotta, Bean's closest and dearest friend.
The novel ends with a showdown between the two arch rivals. Throughout the novel, Achilles has been holding Petra hostage, and attempts to use her as a shield to force Bean to kill her in order to stop him. However, a Chinese officer, charged with returning Achilles to China, attempts to forge a temporary ceasefire with Bean, under the terms that they both fulfill their mission objectives. Thinking that there is no way Bean would uphold the bargain once he has Petra, Achilles attempts to kill the officer, only to be disarmed by him and knocked out by Bean, who does obey the terms and sets Achilles free.
Shadow Puppets[edit]
Achilles successfully manipulates Peter into giving him a job in the Hegemony despite pleas from Bean. Achilles uses his vast network to attempt to kill Peter Wiggin; he forcefully coerces Uphanad (once a Battle School officer, now an official at the Ministry of Colonization) to do the work. However, Uphanad is caught, foiling the attempt.
Peter and his two parents are in space at this time. Despite the misgivings of Peter and Bean, Graff states flatly that Achilles is not unbeatable; though he is smart, his major tactic has been to put himself in the middle of turmoil and seize opportunities without hesitation. By acting unpredictably, he has managed to neutralize the considerable brainpower of the Battle School geniuses and Peter. However, Achilles has never been tested by a well-prepared and determined opponent. Graff suspects that Achilles may try to take out the shuttle as both Peter and his parents return to earth. Graff instead sends a dummy shuttle; Achilles attempts to blow that one up. Not only does he fail to kill Peter, he loses much of his support around the world, since his attack constitutes an attack on the I.F. and violates international law.
Achilles later pretends to have Bean's and Petra's embryos. Bean goes into a compound where Achilles pretends to hand over the embryos. Bean doesn't buy it, and Bean kills Achilles. Bean has Suriyawong's help who, giving Achilles a taste of his own medicine, had worked his way into Achilles' confidence, solely to betray him.
Shadow of the Giant[edit]
Although Achilles is dead, his legacy has grown to epic proportions. Postings on the Internet credit him with devising the plans that Ender used to defeat the Formics. This is patently false; as seen in Ender's Shadow, Achilles was sent away long before the Jeesh reached and assembled on Eros.[citation needed]
Achilles also implanted one of Bean and Petra's nine embryos into a woman named Randi. Randi gives birth to the child, whom she names Achilles de Flandres II. The baby's official name is Randall Firth, however, to protect him. The baby has Anton's Key turned; he is born prematurely and without causing pain to the mother, he learns to speak faster than normal, and grasps concepts faster than normal babies.
Knowing that the baby is endangered, Randi arranges for herself and the baby to leave on a spaceship traveling at relativistic speeds. She believes that both Peter and Bean, Achilles' enemies, would be dead by the time she returns; however, she does not know that Bean too is traveling on a spaceship in hopes of living long enough for a cure for his condition to be discovered.
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Pronunciation is confirmed by the audiobooks for the Ender's Shadow series.
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 Xenocide (1991)·
 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
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 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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List of International Fleet personnel

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This is a list of characters of the fictional International Fleet in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series.

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  [hide] 1 Chamrajnagar
2 Hyrum Graff
3 Mazer Rackham 3.1 Ender Quartet
3.2 Shadow Quartet
4 References
Chamrajnagar[edit]
Admiral Jawaharlal Chamrajnagar is a fictional character created by Orson Scott Card for the Ender's Game series of books. The admiral serves the International Fleet as Strategos and later as Polemarch; in the earlier story The Polish Boy, he is an aide to the Polemarch. He is a native of India.
During the Formic Wars, the Admiral served as Strategos. Following Ender's victory over the Formics, the League War, and an attempted coup at the Fleet, Admiral Chamrajnagar was reassigned from Strategos to Polemarch, and the office of Strategos eliminated. The Fleet adopted a non-intervention policy on Earth, except when themselves threatened or attacked.
Chamrajnagar's role in the Ender's Shadow series differs. During his time as Polemarch, Peter Wiggin discovers his Polnet account, implied to have been given by Hyrum Graff, and attempts to advise him on matters of Russian expansionism (the former Polemarch was Russian), the gradual collapse of the Hegemony, and the possibility of greater war. Most importantly, Peter informs the Indian that: "The most powerful resources of any nation to come will be the children trained in Battle, Tactical, and Command School". When India and Pakistan sign a non-aggression pact during Shadow of the Hegemon, Chamrajnagar plans to resign from the IF and return to his native homeland. However, Peter Wiggin Peter persuades him not to come back to Earth, and later reappoints Chamrajnagar as Polemarch.
In Ender in Exile he is shown capable of necessary tasks, but equally interested in advancing his career.
Hyrum Graff[edit]
Colonel Hyrum Graff is a fictional character from the Ender and Shadow books written by Orson Scott Card, who appeared appeared in the short story in 1977, wherein he was named 'Captain Graff'.[1] He also appears in Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, A War of Gifts, Ender in Exile, and the short story The Polish Boy from the collection First Meetings. He is named after the early Latter Day Saint movement leader Hyrum Smith.
In The Polish Boy, he is a young captain and teacher from the Battle School who attempts to recruit a young Polish boy named John Paul Wieczorek, but instead arranges for the family to move to the United States under the assumed surname 'Wiggin', with the intention of recruiting the boy's son.
During Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, Graff is in charge of the Battle School and recruits John Paul's son, Ender, for the Third Formic War; carefully isolating Ender, from his peers and from adults, to emphasize self-reliance. Even when this results in a deadly confrontation between Ender and Bonzo Madrid, Graff does not allow interference. In Ender's Shadow, he does the same to Bean, who also succeeds; but Graff ultimately decides on Ender as his primary subject.
Graff is known for eating excessively; until halfway through Ender's Game wherein he has become obese. At the end of the book, he has lost most of the weight during the Third Invasion. This character is similar to the U.S. president Taft, who was also intelligent, manipulative, bad with public speaking, and an eater to relieve distress. Graff's methods also resemble Taft's Dollar Diplomacy.
Following Ender's defeat of the buggers, Graff is court martialed for his decisions at the Battle School, including the decision not to interfere between Ender and Bonzo Madrid; but acquitted on grounds that all his actions were necessary to ensure that Ender would achieve victory. Later, Graff is made 'Minister of Colonization' and becomes an ally of Peter Wiggin and Bean against Achilles de Flandres. Here, Graff is a strong advocate in establishing Peter's rule over Earth. In Ender's Shadow, he develops a friendly, almost paternal relationship with Bean.
Ender in Exile describes Graff as a helpful figure during Ender's struggles as he travels to and from Ender's first colony. Here, Graff attempts to comfort Ender during his emotional trauma after the war. This book also reveals Graff's objective of seeing humanity dispersed throughout the galaxy, preventing an extinction should Earth come under attack. To that end he spends ten months out of every year in stasis, where he will not age. Although this allowed him to see the founding of many colonies, he is removed as Minister of Colonization and retires to Ireland, writing one last letter to Ender before fading into obscurity.
A minor character in Cloverfield is named after him.
Mazer Rackham[edit]
Mazer Rackham is described in the book as a half-Maori New Zealander. According to Card,[2] his name is derived from the first president of BYU, Karl G. Maeser, and the illustrator Arthur Rackham, and is not word play on Ockham's Razor. He was a twice-court-martialed commander, assigned a small reserve patrol force prior to the second invasion. His victory over the buggers is used to motivate the people of Earth to support the IF.
Ender Quartet[edit]
During the Second Invasion, the Formics destroyed the humans' main defensive fleet. Commanding a small reserve patrol force, Mazer Rackham destroys the Formic Queen's ship, leaving the remaining Formics helpless. Much of the technology used against the Third Invasion is adapted from the intact Formic fleet.
After the Second Invasion, the I.F. sends a fleet consisting of 'every last ship we could scrounge' to attack the buggers, and set up a program called Battle School, in which militarily talented six-year-olds are trained as generals, with the foremost commander taught personally by Rackham. To preserve his life, Rackham is sent on a relativistic, time-slowing journey, at whose end to become Ender Wiggin's mentor.
When Rackham returns from space to teach Ender, he tells him to command a simulated fleet against Rackham and several experienced pilots. These battles slowly wear down Ender's desire to remain commander, and when Rackham gives him a 'final exam' in which Ender is hopelessly outnumbered by buggers orbiting a planet, Ender orders his squadron leaders to use the Molecular Disruptor (M.D. for short, also called the "Doctor Device"), a weapon whose explosive power is increased by the mass in its explosive radius (ships, meteors, etc...), against the buggers' home planet, believing this will prove himself too uncivilized for command. After he wins, Rackham reveals that these battles were not simulations, and that Ender has destroyed most of the bugger species; whereas the deception was meant to use Ender's youthful reflexes and creativity without the sorrow, and hesitancy, of sending real soldiers to their deaths.
Shadow Quartet[edit]
In Ender's Shadow, Rackham is only mentioned; but discourages Ender from confidence in Bean's ability to handle a large army, to make sure that Bean does not receive any important assignments, instead allowing him to watch the battle against the chance of substitution for Ender.
Rackham disappears until Shadow of the Giant, wherein the story states that he stays behind the colonies to assist the International Fleet. In the very beginning of the novel, he gives Han Tzu a lethal pen-blowdart, calling it the 'Mandate of Heaven', with which Han Tzu then assassinates the military leadership of China and becomes emperor. The soldiers, knowing that he advised against all mistakes that resulted in China's ruin, support him. Most of Rackham's later role is his assistance to Bean, whom he convinces to remain alive until they find a cure for his condition (Anton's Key). Bean does so; to comfort an angry and hurt Petra, Rackham tells her about his experience with the same process.
Rackham is the main character of a short story, released in the first issue of "Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show", called Mazer in Prison. This short story, taking place before Ender's Game, details some of his experiences directly after the first victory over the Formics, during his time-slowing journey mentioned above.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Called Captain Graff in original Short Story. See: Card, Orson Scott (August 1977), "Ender's Game", in Bova, Ben, Analog (Norwalk, CT, United States: Dell Magazines) 97 (8), para. 45, retrieved March 22, 2012, "Captain Graff, six foot two and a little chubby, stroked his belly as he leaned back in his chair."
2.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott. ""Question: This might be a stretch, but is Mazer Rackham's name derived at all from 'Ockham's Razor?'"". OSC Answers Questions. Hatrack.com. Retrieved 2007-12-07.

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 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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Han Qing-jao

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Han Qing-jao (Traditional 韓清照) is a major character in the science-fiction novel Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card. She is the sixteen-year-old daughter of Han Fei-tzu, a respected leader from the colony world of Path. Qing-jao is named for the poet Li Qingzhao.
Qing-jao originally appeared in the short story Gloriously Bright, which was later expanded into the novel Xenocide. Despite sharing the family name Han, Card has stated that she is not related to the character Han Tzu from Ender's Game.[1] However, this may be contradicted by hints in Shadow Puppets.[citation needed]
Qing-jao is quoted at the beginning of each chapter in the final book in the series, Children of the Mind.
Qing-jao and her father belong to a class of people known as "godspoken"; they are highly intelligent but have a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that forces them to carry out strange rituals. For example, Qing-jao has to trace woodgrain lines with her eyes whenever she feels that she has displeased the gods. Later in the book it is discovered that the godspoken have had their intelligence genetically enhanced by the Starways Congress, and have been given the OCD to keep them under control.
Qing-jao was raised to see everything in the world in terms of her faith in the gods and is determined to serve them perfectly. (She is shocked when she finds out from her servant Si Wang-mu that not all the common people are content to have the godspoken rule over them.) Because of this, she is never able to accept that her compulsions are not really caused by the gods, and when all the godspoken are finally cured of their OCD, she devotes her life to performing her rituals in hopes of calling the gods back to her world.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2000-09-04). "Is Han Tzu related to Han Qing-Jao?". OSC Answers Questions. Retrieved 2008-04-27. "Pure coincidence. By the time I was writing Xenocide, I had forgotten that I had given Hot Soup the "real" name Han Tzu."

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 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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Si Wang-mu is a major character in the science fiction novels Xenocide and Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card. She is named after the Chinese goddess Xi Wangmu, the Royal Mother of the West.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Childhood
2 The House of Han Fei-Tzu
3 Research and Revelations
4 Traveling Philosopher
5 A New Beginning
Childhood[edit]
She is a very intelligent and ambitious girl, but because her world has a rigidly stratified social hierarchy and she is the child of lower-class parents, she has not been well-educated; it is assumed that the best she can hope for is to be a servant. She approaches the young "godspoken" lady Han Qing-jao while they are doing "righteous labor" in the rice paddies. Qing-jao, pleased with Wang-mu's intelligence and honesty, hires her as her servant and begins to educate her. During this initial conversation, Qing-jao deduces that Wang-Mu must have bribed the foreman for the opportunity to work alongside a godspoken woman, though she only later realizes the depth of this commitment. Since Wang-mu is from a poor family, she could only exchange sexual favors for the opportunity; this realization makes Qing-jao more grateful for Wang-mu and determined to have the foreman fired for such impropriety.
The House of Han Fei-Tzu[edit]
Under Qing-jao's tutelage, Wang-mu proves to be a quick student. As the "secret maid" of Qing-jao, it is her job to always be at her mistress' side, keeping her confidence while serving her needs. Though their relationship is at times strained, Wang-mu's consistent attention to detail and consideration often turn away any of her potential offenses. As Qing-jao is continuously gripped by the voice of the "gods," in reality the reaction of the godspoken to a form of OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder), she often stays with Qing-jao throughout her humiliating rituals of "purification."
When Han Fei-Tzu receives orders from the Starways Congress to solve the mystery of the Lusitania Fleet, Wang-mu is present and immediately incorporated into the discussion. Qing-jao trusts her implicitly and relies on her more as a friend with a fresh set of eyes rather than a simple maid, and the two often discuss the problems of science and philosophy arising out of their task. While Qing-jao is an excellent and methodical researcher, it is often Wang-mu's insights and creative thinking that steer closer toward the answer.
Eventually, the two stumble onto the identity of the elusive Demosthenes and realize that the famous writer must have access to a powerful or sentient computer program (Jane) to accomplish the task of hiding the fleet while in near-light speed travel. Jane, in turn, reveals herself to Han Fei-Tzu, Qing-jao, and Wang-mu, followed by a devastating secret: the godspoken have been genetically modified by Congress as a deliberate strategy to make them useful but not a threat.
While Han Fei-tzu immediately seizes the truth of this idea, his daughter Qing-jao cannot accept this and believes that Jane must be destroyed, but Wang-mu sees Jane as an intelligent and compassionate person and is greatly saddened at the thought of her death. Moreover, she clings to the possibility that ridding the people of Path from the "godspoken" genetic markers may free her adopted family from its humiliating grip. Qing-jao, still believing the OCD to be the voice of the gods, dismisses Wang-mu from her service, but her father, Han Fei-tzu, calls her back to help save Jane and the people of Lusitania.
Research and Revelations[edit]
Working closely with Han Fei-tzu, the pair begin working with the xenologists of Lusitania to solve the various problems confronting them: stopping the Lusitania fleet from destroying the planet on their arrival, finding a cure or replacement for the Descolada, and cracking the secret to faster-than-light travel. As before with Qing-jao, Wang-mu acts as the fresh set of eyes for Han Fei-tzu, providing insight and intuitive guesses that only someone who was not a disciplined expert could offer.
It is eventually discovered that all but one of the people in the small sample testing of members of Han's household gifted with enhanced intelligence are also afflicted with an artificially inflicted form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). That one person is Si Wang-mu herself, and her genes are used to help cure the remainder of the Path population - to give them all intelligence without the bonds of the OCD. Han Fei-tzu comments that she is essentially living up to her namesake since her genetic pattern will be the "mother" of the unfettered new strain used to cure the godspoken. An added benefit to the treatment is that all the people of Path, throughout the social hierarchy, should exhibit the incredible intelligence once demonstrated only by the elite.
As Wang-mu and Han Fei-tzu spread the new virus throughout the population, the two attempt to reconcile with Qing-jao, though this proves to be impossible. Despite the loss of his biological daughter, Han Fei-tzu and Wang-mu embrace each other as kin, with Wang-mu feeling particularly close to Han Fei-tzu as a surrogate father as well as her teacher, mentor, and chief supporter.
At the end of Xenocide, Wang-mu leaves her home planet, Path, with the young Peter Wiggin to continue this mission, which is detailed in Children of the Mind.
Traveling Philosopher[edit]
Along with Peter Wiggin, the two adopt the singular mission of convincing the Starways Congress to halt their attack on Lusitania. To do this, they embark on a series of investigations and debates to pull an influential swing vote to their favor. Apparently, the center of power in the Starways Congress is not held in the hands of politicians and soldiers, but rather several key philosophical leaders who have the tendency to influence policy. To this effect, Wang-mu poses as an "itinerant philosopher" specializing in cryptic "gnomic" sayings—presumably a position of great influence for someone of her age. Peter poses as a traveling physicist so that the two, working together, will draw more attention to their combined arguments representing both science and philosophy, respectively.
Traveling with Peter is quick, thanks to Jane's ability to move them at faster-than-light speeds; however, the two develop an immediate dislike for one another, which eventually blows up into a love-hate relationship. Since Peter was created by Ender to be a vessel for self-hatred, he has a tendency to lash out at the people around him, initially turning Wang-mu into his most frequent target. After shedding her trained humility and servile attitude from the world of Path, Wang-mu begins returning the favor, fighting verbal sparring matches that exchange hurtful remarks, though the two eventually form a grudging respect.
They are first sent to the planet of Divine Wind to probe the questions of imperialism with Aimaina Hikari. When Peter fails to connect with the withdrawn social figure, due mainly to a lack of cultural context, Wang-mu engages him in a duel of humility to win his respect. While the two fail to persuade him to their cause, they in turn find out that he is a disciple of a Samoan holy man: Malu. Jane reveals that this was actually their mission all along, since Malu is the guiding light of modern philosophy, but is also reclusive. Since Aimaina contacts Teu 'Ona "Grace" Drinker first, the two travel to the planet Pacifica in an effort to contact him through her.
Once they arrive, it is immediately apparent to both Grace and her family that Peter and Wang-mu have achieved the impossible and traveled faster-than light. After a series of additional cultural blunders, Grace reveals that the two are not holy enough to go see Malu, but that in a compromise, Malu has decided to see them.
A New Beginning[edit]
After listening to Malu at length, light years away on Lusitania, Ender Wiggin begins dying, causing the extensions of his mind and soul (the re-created Peter and Valentine) to fluctuate. As Peter begins fading into death on Pacifica, he undergoes an intense personal transformation, and Wang-mu begins to realize that a deeper connection has formed between the two. As Peter slips in and out of alternating states of death and waking, she becomes an emotional—and more importantly, spiritual—anchor for him that allows him to draw the complete life source out of the dying Ender. Having taken full possession of the life force that was once divided in three bodies, the fully reborn Peter loses much of his acerbic nature, and the depth of his feelings for Wang-mu are now open and shared. The two forged a metaphysical bond during the process that cause the two to fall deeply in love.
Once Peter is made whole by being in full possession of Ender's aiua (the part of his life force that exists as philotic rays), the pair travel directly to the Lusitania fleet to confront Admiral Lands. Though Lands has already launched the Little Doctor (the Molecular Disruption Device in the form of a missile), Peter convinces Jane to transport it back to the flagship so the other officers can disarm it. Once Peter and Si Wang-mu deliver a series of messages for Starways Congress, they transport to the shuttle (with Jane/Young Val, Miro, Ela, Quara, Fire Quencher, and a nameless worker of the Hive Queen) around the planet of the descoladors (the beings that created the descolada). After a short discussion/argument about what to do to the descoladors they are transported back to Lusitania where Wang-mu meets Novinha and her other children Olhado, and Grego, along with Valentine, and the other inhabitants of Lusitania.
Once there, she attempts to form a bond with Quara, the most isolated and confrontational of Novinha's children with somewhat greater success than the other characters; Wang-mu further determines to strengthen this progress until the two of them can openly be friends.
She eventually marries Peter at the roots of a young Mothertree in a dual ceremony with Miro and Jane shortly after Ender's funeral. Having earlier expressed a desire to travel the known colonized planets, the four disappear as Jane transports them away for their travels.

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 Xenocide (1991)·
 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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List of Ender's Game characters

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This is a partial list of characters in the Ender's Game series.

Contents
  [hide] 1 The Wiggins
2 Battle School students 2.1 Ender's Jeesh ("Crew")
2.2 Post-War Battle-School Characters
2.3 Other Battle School students
3 International Fleet personnel
4 People from Path
5 People from Lusitania
6 Pequeninos
7 People from/Colonists of Shakespeare
8 People from Ganges
9 Others
10 References
The Wiggins[edit]
Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin is the central character of the Ender quartet and a constant presence in the Bean quartet. Brought into the International Fleet's Battle School for his immense potential as a commander of soldiers, he is eventually tricked into prosecuting the war against the Formics, resulting in the almost-complete destruction of that race, and spends a good part of the remainder of his life attempting to find absolution for his unknowing act of xenocide by becoming a Speaker for the Dead.
Peter Wiggin is Ender's elder brother, rejected from Battle School for ruthless and excessive ambition. Despite showing sociopathic tendencies in his youth, he later becomes Hegemon of the free world due to his prescient and charismatic leadership, and founds the Free People of Earth, the Enderverse's first world government.
Valentine Wiggin is Ender's elder sister, being the middle child of the Wiggin family. Rejected from Battle School for her overwhelming compassion, she serves as the intermediary between the weaker Ender and the jealous Peter during the former's (brief) childhood. Later she helps Peter on his rise to power by becoming "Demosthenes," an essayist whose rabble-rousing demagoguery is contrasted strongly against Peter's statesmanlike essays as "Locke." After the end of the Formic War, she leaves with Ender on an odyssey through time and space, turning Demosthenes into a historian whose essays are considered the definitive word on whatever subject they address. After marrying on the planet Trondheim, she eventually uproots her family to follow Ender to Lusitania, where she helps to defuse the onrushing Lusitania Fleet and the impending shadow of xenocide.
John Paul Wiggin and Theresa Wiggin are Ender's parents. While Ender's Game portrays them as being dull and oblivious, despite the genius children they raised, both characters are fleshed out in later works and revealed to be more intelligent than even their children imagined. John Paul is Catholic and Theresa Mormon.
Battle School students[edit]
Main article: List of Battle School students
Ender's Jeesh ("Crew")[edit]
Ender's Jeesh is a collection of his closest friends at Battle School, particularly those who serve under him during the Third Invasion which ends in the destruction of the Formic homeworld. As chronicled in the Bean Quartet, many of them move into positions of international priority during the chaotic years after the end of the Formic War, particularly due to the machinations of Achilles de Flandres.
Alai
Julian "Bean" Delphiki
Carn Carby
Crazy Tom
Dink Meeker
Champi T'it'u (Dumper)
Fly Molo
Han Tzu (Hot Soup)
Petra Arkanian
Shen
Vlad
Post-War Battle-School Characters[edit]
Achilles de Flandres (first name pronounced "ah-sheel", in the French manner) is the main villain of the Bean quartet. Like Bean, he grew up in Rotterdam, an orphan on the streets; like Peter, he displays sociopathic tendencies, particularly by murdering anyone who has ever seen or made him helpless. During the years after the Formic War, he takes steps to begin unifying the world under his rule, causing a series of costly wars between India, China, Russia, a united Islam, and large parts of Europe and southeast Asia.
Suriyawong is a Battle School grad from Thailand who becomes Bean's friend during the wars caused by Achilles. He was known as "Surly" due to his pugilistic disposition, but during his time with Bean develops into a mature and capable commander.
Virlomi is a Battle School grad from India who is instrumental in rousting Achilles from his power base in India. As the conflicts increase, she returns to rural India to devise and encourage civil disobedience there, but begins to suffer delusions of grandeur.
Other Battle School students[edit]
Ahmed
Ambul
Anwar
William Bee
Bernard
Ducheval ("Shovel")
Filippus "Flip" Rietveld
Nikolai Delphiki
Bonzo Madrid
Talo Momoe
Zeck Morgan
Rose the Nose
Sayagi
Pol Slattery
Wu
International Fleet personnel[edit]
Main article: List of International Fleet personnel
Hyrum Graff is the principal of Battle School, and personally supervised much of Ender's training. After the war he is put on trial for his controversial actions there, but is given a position within the Hegemony as Minister of Colonization, responsible for sending humanity out to colonize the now-deserted worlds formerly held by the Formics.
Mazer Rackham is the half-Māori captain who singlehandedly stopped the Second Invasion by realizing that the Buggers are a hive mind. Due to his inability to pass on his knowledge, he was forced to spend fifty years at relativistic speeds (eight years to Rackham) so that he could train the next commander—Ender Wiggin. After the end of the war, he joins Graff's crusade to keep the human race from destroying itself.
Major Anderson was Graff's second-in-command at Battle School, generally seen in the epistolary conversations from Ender's Game attempting to moderate his superior's unorthodox training of Ender. His passion is the Battle Room; after the war's end, he accepts the post of commissioner for an American football league, and does not appear in the latter three books of either the Ender or Bean quartets.
Admiral Chamrajnagar is the ranking Admiral at Eros, the International Fleet's headquarters, during the final stages of the Formic War; he was not Polemarch during that time, and has assumed that post by the time Achilles de Flandres begins his power plays.
People from Path[edit]
Han Fei-tzu is a "godspoken" man from the planet of Path, whose treaty ended a burgeoning rebellion within the Hundred Worlds some three thousand years after Ender's Xenocide. Since then he has been retained as an advisor to Starways Congress. Han Jiang-qing is wife of Han Fei-tzu. She dies in the opening chapter of the novel.
Han Qing-jao is the daughter of Han Fei-tzu and Han Jiang-qing, also "godspoken" like her parents. When confronted with evidence that the godspoken affliction is not a sign of deitic favor but rather a genetic modification, giving her and all other godspoken both genius-level intelligence and obsessive-compulsive disorder, she is unable to cope with the truth and clings to her old traditions, becoming a tragic character. Her name means "Gloriously Bright."
Si Wang-mu is Qing-jao's "secret maid," an ambitious and extremely bright commoner whom Qing-jao takes under her wing. She is named after the Queen Mother of the West, a powerful figure in Chinese mythology. When the godspoken genes are studied in hopes of retaining the genius-level intellect but removing the OCD, it is discovered that Wang-mu has naturally mutated into such a condition, and her genes are treated as a model of what the revision is intended to do, making her rather outrageous name somewhat less ironic. Later, she accompanies the reborn Peter Wiggin on his quest to stop the destruction of Lusitania, and eventually marries him.
People from Lusitania[edit]
Joao Figueira Alvarez, known as "Pipo," (pronounced PEE-po) is the first xenologer of Lusitania, studying the "Lusitania Aborigines," though they are generally known as pequeninos (Portuguese for "Little Ones") or "piggies". He is one of the few people on the planet who treats Novinha as a real person, and becomes her beloved father-figure during her teenage years. He is the first human killed by the piggies, and his death prompts Novinha to call for a speaker for the dead.
Liberdade Graças a Deus Figueira de Medici, known as "Libo," (pronounced LEE-bo) is Pipo's son and the xenologer after his death. He is Novinha's first love, but she refuses to marry him after Pipo is killed, believing that one of her discoveries about the Descolada led to his murder and refusing to allow him marital access to those files. Unfortunately, he too is vivisected by the piggies, making her effots in vain; his apprentice, Miro, calls for a speaking of his death, which Ender performs. He is the father of Novinha's children.
Ivanova Santa Catarina von Hesse, known as "Novinha," (pronounced no-VEEN-ya) is the daughter of Lusitania's xenobiologists, who were able to inhibit the descolada before it killed the entire colony but did not manage to save themselves. Orphaned, Novinha became distant and formal until finding a sanctuary with Pipo and Libo. It is her pain and sorrow that draws Ender Wiggin to Lusitania, and the two eventually marry. Despite this, Novinha never loses her fragility and fear of losing those dearest to her.
Marcos Maria Ribeira, known as "Marcão" (pronounced mar-COW) ("Big Marcos"), is Novinha's late husband. He is known for his fearsome stature, surly temper, and habit of beating his wife, traits which earned him the epithet "cão," dog; he dies a few weeks before Ender arrives at Lusitania, of a congenital disease which caused his glands to turn to fatty tissues. Among other things, this rendered him sterile, and it is revealed during Ender's speaking of his death that none of Novinha's children are actually his, but rather Libo's; the two agreed to this form of cuckoldry before getting married.
Marcos Vladimir Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Miro," (pronounced MIE-roe) is Novinha's eldest child. He follows Libo into xenology and falls in love with Ouanda, Libo's firstborn daughter by his (actual) wife. In response to this and other factors, he attempts to cross the nerve-stimulating fence separating the piggies from the human compound, suffering brain damage and becoming crippled. He is sent out into space to greet Valentine Wiggin and her family, and later becomes a key player in the events leading up to the almost-second Xenocide.
Ekaterina Elanora Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Ela," (pronounced E-la)is Novinha's second child. Like all the females in her line, she becomes a xenobiologist, and is one of the first members of the Ribeira family to warm to Ender. Later in life, she is instrumental in the destruction of the descolada virus, and its replacement with a far-more-benign variant, the recolada.
Estevão Rei Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Quim," (Quim is pronounced KEENG. Estevão is pronounced ES-te-vowng) is Novinha's third child. He is extremely pious and at first resists Andrew Wiggin on grounds of his atheistic avocation, but later warms to the Speaker, partially for his reputation as a crusader. He later becomes the first Christian evangelist to the pequeninos and holds great respect among them, but is martyred by a particularly heretical forest who believe that the descolada is the Holy Ghost and it is the pequeninos' duty to judge all humans with it.
Lauro Suleimão Ribeira von Hesse, Novinha's fourth child, is known as "Olhado," (pronounced ol-YAH-doe) "the guy with the eyes," because a freak laser accident blinded him in his youth, requiring the implant of metal replacements. He has reduced binocular vision and depth perception but can plug a computer jack directly into one eye, to upload visual recordings. Due to the resulting ostracism, he becomes a keen observer of human nature and interaction. Later in life he becomes a brickmaker (or at least a manager of them) because, to him, family is a far more important calling than the sciences that took his relatives; nonetheless he has revolutionary ways of looking at physics and metaphysics, and is crucial in the development of faster-than-light travel (via a modified hyperspace mechanic related to philotic theory). Like Ela, he quickly warms to Ender; as he relates to Valentine in Xenocide, his greatest secret is that, while alone with Ender, they call each other "Father" and "Son".
Lembrança das Milagres de Jesus Ribeira von Hesse, called "Quara," (pronounced KWA-rah) is Novinha's fifth child. Throughout her life she exhibits stubbornness and contrariness, generally doing whatever the people who love her don't want her to do. She also becomes a xenobiologist, and assists Ela in "truncating" the descolada, despite discovering that the virus is quite possibly sentient and is certainly able to communicate with other individuals of its species.
Gerão Gregorio Ribeira von Hesse, called "Grego," (pronounced GRE-goe) is Novinha's sixth child, only six years old when Ender arrives. As a child he showed a disturbing capacity for destruction, modeled on his father's habit of domestic violence, a temper which does not subside during later years. After Quim's death, he attempts to whip a mob into a frenzy to attack the responsible forest, only to have them jump on the nearest one to hand—Human and Rooter's forest—after being chewed out by Valentine, Grego tries to end the massacre with as little bloodshed as possible, eventually placing himself between the surviving piggies and his own riot. He later collaborates with Olhado on faster-than-light travel.
Pequeninos[edit]
Main article: Pequeninos
Rooter is a piggy who plays an influential role in human-pequenino relations. He is extremely intelligent and frequently proves the wisdom of the xenologers' directive of minimal interference; he is the first piggy to be flayed alive by his tribe after the establishment of the colony of Milagre, and thus the humans' first exposure to this practice; and his "totem tree" (as the humans think of him) provides them with wisdom and direction for years to come.
Human is a pequenino who serves as a diplomat of sorts between the piggies and the humans, helping Ender Wiggin communicate with one of the wives, Shouter, and create a treaty so that both races can live together. He is the first and last piggy to be "planted" by human hands, to sign the treaty in the piggies' way. Later in life he becomes the friend and confidant of the Lusitanian Hive Queen through philotic communication; Children of the Mind implies that the two have developed romantic feelings for each other.
Planter is a lab technician who assists Ela and Quara during the years before the arrival of the Lusitania Fleet. To prove that pequeninos can be separated from the descolada without harm, he volunteers for an "experiment" in which his body is purged of the virus, which is as vital to him as oxygen; though this loses him his "third life" as a sentient fathertree, he proves that pequenino sentience is not affected by the descolada, and as such is remembered by all peoples of Lusitania as a hero and martyr.
Glass is, like Planter, a lab technician to the Lusitanian xenobiologists. He volunteers to be a guinea piggy for the recolada virus and is successfully transformed into a fathertree, proving its suitability as a non-destructive descolada replacement.
Warmaker is a fathertree who, as his name suggests, was influential during the last great war between piggy tribes. It is his forest that develops the peculiar heresy of the descolada being the Holy Ghost, and he himself kills Quim by withholding from him the medicine all humans need to keep the descolada dormant.
Arrow
Calendar
Firequencher
Leaf-Eater
Mandachuva
Water-jumper
People from/Colonists of Shakespeare[edit]
Alessandra Toscano
Sel Menach
Vitaly Denisovitch Kolmogorov
Ix Tolo
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Abra is the boy who Ender was with at the end of Ender's Game, when Ender discovered the cocooned Hive Queen at the End of the World the buggers built for him. In Ender in Exile, Abra is revealed to be a bright boy of eleven years old who can fix nearly any machine. Abra is not really accepted by the children of his age because he is seen as someone who is at the level of an adult, while the adults mostly see him as a child.
People from Ganges[edit]
Randall Firth: Originally named Achilles Flanders II, Firth is the missing ninth child of Bean and Petra. Randall was born prematurely and appears to have Anton's Key turned. His mother, Nichelle Firth, also known as Randi believes Achilles is a hero assassinated by foul enemies. Nichelle allows Achilles to implant an embryo, believing that she would be carrying Achilles' child. To avoid persecution by Peter Wiggin, Randi determines to leave Earth and live in a colony, where she can raise her child and return him to Earth later to become the new Achilles. Nichelle ends up as a part of the colony Ganges led by Virlomi. Randall, called "Achilles" by Nichelle, is raised to see Peter the Hegemon and Julian Delphiki (otherwise known as Bean) as monsters, and to believe that Achilles was a true hero. Randall was one of the first to read "The Hive Queen" and treat it like a holy book, and thus he was also the first to paint Ender in a negative light, as Ender "The Xenocide". When Ender encounters Randall on Ganges, Randall plots to provoke Ender so that Ender will strike out and kill Randall. He thinks if this can be done, the universe will realize that Ender was a dangerous criminal. However, Ender does not strike out and instead tells Randall about his true mother and father: Petra Arkanian and Julian Delphiki. Randall is so enraged by this that he proceeds to brutally beat Ender, but Ender does not retaliate at all. Just before he delivers the final blow, Randall realizes that what Ender has told him is true, and he takes Ender to a doctor immediately. Randall then decides to rename himself Arkanian Delphiki, after his true parents.
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The Hive Queen is the physical embodiment of the central consciousness of the Formics.
Jane is an artificial sentience thought to exist within the ansible network by which planets communicate instantly across galactic distances and instant communication is made possible through the hundred worlds.
Anton is a scientist of European descent who discovers two genetic modifications which will allow the human brain unlimited growth, at the cost of unlimited physical growth. This discovery, Anton's Key, is named in his honor. However, research into human genetic engineering was outlawed by the international community, and when the nature of his work was discovered, he was subjected to classical conditioning to make it difficult for him to continue or even discuss his research.
Volescu is an unethical scientist of European descent, and the brother of Bean's father. He illegally modified 23 human embryos, "turning" Anton's Key within them; only one, Bean himself, was ever grown to maturity. Volescu was later discovered and had to destroy all his "research," but Bean escaped him by, at the age of 9 months, hiding himself in the tank of a toilet. Volescu was later imprisoned for his crimes.
Poke is an orphan girl from the streets of Rotterdam, the leader of a "crew" of fellow orphans who eventually take in Bean—and Achilles. Poke gave Bean his name, which he was originally unfond of, but later recognizes himself as Bean and ignores Colonel Graff, who tells Bean his true identity as Julian Delphiki. In Rotterdam, Bean, on some instinct, tells Poke to kill Achilles when she has the chance; she refuses, and Achilles later kills her, after kissing her, by stabbing her in the eye and then throwing her in the Rhine. Bean witnessed the kiss in the dark and, after leaving the scene, came to the realization that Poke was unsafe. He rushes back to find Poke already dead; Bean then blames himself for Poke's death. When Bean tells the story of Poke to Ender's jeesh on the journey to Eros, he decides to trust Petra, saying to her, "You cried for Poke, and that makes us friends."
Seargent is the second in command of Poke's crew, and later Achilles' family. He finds out Achilles killed Poke, but keeps this a secret for his, and everyone else's, protection.
Sister Carlotta is a Catholic nun who works as a recruiter for Battle School. Like Poke, she takes in both Bean and Achilles; however, her battery of psychological tests manage to identify Achilles for who he truly is. Later, when he escapes from a mental institution in Belgium and begins his reign of terror, she and Bean go undercover to oppose him, eventually linking up with Peter Wiggin. She, like Poke, meets her death at Achilles' hands; Bean is never able to forgive himself for these deaths.
Ullysses is a bully in Rotterdam. To help his family receive food from a soup kitchen, Achilles makes a point of beating up Ullysses. When he is released from a hospital he gloats about getting even with him. Ullysses is later killed by Achilles.
Stilson is a bully in Ender's Game. In the very first chapter of the book, he and three friends gang up on Ender, who decides to win, not just this fight, but all fights that might happen in the near future. Ender's counterattacks are so effective that Stilson, unbeknownst to Ender, suffers enough injury to later die in the hospital.
Descoladores are a possibly sentient species that are first presented in Children of the Mind. Little is known about them other than the fact that they communicate using genes, through a virus, known as the Descolada, and that they can use that virus to alter the genes of all life on a planet, causing mostly lethal mutations. There has been much debate as to whether the Descoladores are Ramen, or whether Xenocide needs to occur (although the end of Children of the Mind lets us to know that the protagonists have decided to be Ramen themselves, and not use the Little Doctor to kill them all). It is suspected that they created the Descolada and other viruses in order to 'terraform' (to their liking) planets such as Lusitania. Upon arriving at their home planet, a group of scientists led by Miro, Jane, Quara, and Ela broadcast the remains of the Descolada found on Lusitania. This molecule contained the genetic makeup of all life on Lusitania (including humans and Pequeninos), although they did send an earlier version of the virus that had not seen the attempts to overcome it. The Descoladores responded by transmitting a genetic molecule back that affects the same place in the brain as heroin. Differing hypotheses for this transmission included a pacification attempt by the Descoladores to sedate and capture the intruders, as well as a welcoming "hug" to a new species. This led to the belief that the Descoladores communicate by transmitting a molecule meant to be manufactured and ingested by the receiving party. Another hypothesis is that this is the way the Descoladores communicate with animals, perhaps using philotic twining to communicate amongst themselves.
References[edit]
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First Meetings
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InterGalactic Medicine Show
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 Recruiting Valentine·
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Ender's Game
 
 
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Hive Queen

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For the queen of the hive, see Queen bee. For the leading female, see alpha female.

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The Hive Queen is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series. She is the central consciousness and physical embodiment of the group mind of the Formics. Along with the rest of her kind, the Hive Queen is regarded as the second-discovered ramen species. Physically, she controls her large colony of insect-like entities through faster-than-light philotic connections.
The Hive Queen is also the title of a fictional book written by Ender Wiggin under the pseudonym 'Speaker for the Dead', usually sold coupled with The Hegemon.

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2 Speaker for the Dead
3 Xenocide
4 Children of the Mind
5 Shadows in Flight
Ender's Game[edit]
During the Third Invasion, it became evident to the Buggers that they could not survive the war against humanity, and prepared a refuge on one of their colonies for the Hive Queen. Using ansible communication, the Hive Queen accessed the memories of the human race's battle commander, Ender Wiggin, whereupon her followers made one of their colonies resemble Ender's most powerful memory (Fairyland, from the pseudo-sentient Mind Fantasy Game). Arriving as a colonist on that world, Ender discovers the Hive Queen and takes her with him while exploring other colonies.
It is revealed that the Hive Queen's philotic connections allow her to communicate directly with Ender's mind, but is unaccustomed to using words. When she succeeds, he promises her a new home to respawn her species. In addition, the Hive Queen helps Ender write down the information concerning her life and the misunderstanding that led to the war. His finished work, titled "The Hive Queen" and published under the name "Speaker for the Dead", leads humanity to regard Ender's xenocide as an evil act. Ender travels to two dozen of Earth's Hundred Colonies, which in relativistic space travel takes three thousand years. While Ender ages only a few decades over this period, the Hive Queen is fully aware of real time due to her philotic nature, and anxious to be released.
Speaker for the Dead[edit]
Eventually Ender responds to a call for a 'Speaker for the Dead' from Lusitania, a small Catholic colony on the only planet of the third-discovered sapient race, the Pequeninos ("Piggies"). For fear of damaging the local culture, the colony is restricted in growth by the Starways Congress; wherefore the Hive Queen alleges that this makes the planet the best candidate for a new home.
On the planet, the Hive Queen occasionally makes cryptic statements to Ender that she has made contact with the Pequeninos (philotically) and agreed to live there in peace. After Ender and the Lusitanian colonists become familiar with the culture of the Pequeninos, they agree to release the Hive Queen from dormancy once they protect her from the native virus, Descolada. At the conclusion of Speaker for the Dead, the Hive Queen releases thousands of eggs.
Xenocide[edit]
By the time of Xenocide, three decades have passed, and the Hive Queen has established herself on Lusitania. Each chapter begins with a philosophical psychic conversation between the Hive Queen, a Human, and a Pequenino Father Tree. The renewed Formic species has grown, but remains hidden from the local human society. When it becomes known that Starways Congress has sent a ship to destroy Lusitania with the "Little Doctor", a molecular-disruption weapon similar to the "Doctor Device" that Ender used to destroy the Formics, the Hive Queen builds starships, with the intent of disseminating her species throughout the cosmos. When conflict breaks out between the humans and the Pequeninos, the Hive Queen sets a perimeter of Formics around the human colony to prevent the violence from escalation. The Pequeninos have allied themselves with the Hive Queen, whom they hope will construct starships in which they can travel to other worlds.
Characters Jane, Grego and Olhado learn that, when one Hive Queen wishes to spawn another, she must summon forth an Aiúa (soul) from a higher plane of existence, known as the "Outside". Each Hive Queen is imbued with an Aiúa at birth, granting her awareness and autonomy. With her vast memory bands and computing power, Jane is able to send objects and creatures "Outside", and bring them back at any point in space.
Children of the Mind[edit]
Jane's newly discovered abilities allow her to transport the various intelligent species of Lusitania to hundreds of planets throughout the cosmos. The Hive Queen's offspring are soon established on many new planets. The Hive Queen herself chooses to remain on Lusitania; Starways Congress's attack is averted, and the Hive Queen survives.
Shadows in Flight[edit]
In Shadows in Flight, Bean and his children discover a Formic Ark, most of whose inhabitants have died. Here they encounter "rabs" – creatures which appear a throwback to the Formics' evolutionary history – and conclude that the Hive Queens are capable of manipulating the DNA of their offspring to create different species for various purposes. Next they encounter male Formics from whom they learn that each Hive Queen infects all of her daughters (the female/worker Formics) with a special organelle before they hatch, killing any workers who show independence and allowing the Hive Queen to remain unchallenged. It also becomes apparent that this is not the only Formic Ark in existence, and that the Formic species is alive and well. Because this information was not in Ender Wiggin's book, The Hive Queen, Bean concludes that Ender's Hive Queen – supposedly the last – has manipulated Ender into portraying her in a positive light, and that Ender has dedicated his life to restoring a tyrant. Bean is unable to convey this to Ender, as his children have taken the ship's ansible from him.

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 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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Jane (Ender's Game)

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Jane is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender series. She is an artificial sentience thought to exist within the ansible network by which spaceships and planets communicate instantly across galactic distances. She has appeared in the novels Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, and in a short story Investment Counselor. Her 'face', a computer-generated hologram that she uses to talk to Ender, is described as plain and young, and it is illustrated in First Meetings as having a bun.
This article is arranged to reflect the Ender timeline. However, the Ender Quartet: Ender's Game (1985), Speaker for the Dead (1986), Xenocide (1990), and Children of the Mind (1994) was written first; then Ender's Shadow (1999), First Meetings (2004), and Shadow of the Giant (2005).

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2 First Meetings
3 Speaker for the Dead
4 Xenocide
5 Children of the Mind
6 Development
7 Critical reception
8 See also
9 References
Ender's Game and Shadow Quartet[edit]
In Ender's Game, the Fantasy Game is the faculty's primary method of obtaining information about their students. It is designed to secretly map out the psyche of the players, providing valuable data on each student's thoughts and decision-making processes. Colonel Graff refers to the game sarcastically as the Mind Game. In the course of its service at the Battle School, the Game successfully analyzes every student but one: Bean, who realizes the game's true purpose and refuses to play.
The student chooses a character and plays through a number of scenarios. One scenario, called the Giant's Drink, offers the player a choice between two beverages, with the promise of admission to "Fairyland" with the correct choice. However, the scenario is actually a no-win situation which invariably results in the player's death. By tracking how frequently a player attempts it, the Giant's Drink detects and warns teachers of suicidal tendencies among the students. To their consternation, Ender confronts the Giant obsessively, failing dozens of times. Finally, he refuses to choose a drink and instead attacks the Giant, killing it and becoming the first student to enter Fairyland; the Game generates this new scenario on the spot, orienting it specifically to Ender himself. This creates a deep connection between him and the Game, with significant consequences later on.
In Ender's Shadow, the Fantasy Game is discussed in greater depth. It is described by the teachers themselves as an extremely complex program that generates content procedurally. The Mind Game is never meant to be conclusive, it only makes connections and discovers patterns that are too subtle for the human eye.
In Shadow of the Giant, when Bean suspects Peter Wiggin of embezzling Ender's trust fund for his Hegemony uses, he recalls the nature of the Fantasy Game and requests that Graff place it in charge of Ender's trust fund. The Game, whose original purpose was to seek out patterns across wide fields of data, is modified to predict markets and invest Ender's trust fund appropriately. Alarmingly effective in this new capacity, it is later called upon to review demographic data and help Bean find seven of his eight stolen embryos/children. The Fantasy Game is assumed to have grown in complexity during the 3000-year gap between Shadow of the Giant and Speaker for the Dead, especially as Graff describes the Mind Game as being able to reprogram itself, and finally becomes the sentient Jane.
First Meetings[edit]
Investment Counselor, a short story in First Meetings, describes the first meeting between Jane and Ender where Jane presents herself to Ender as a computerized program meant to help with taxes. Ender takes her up on the offer, and begins a lifelong friendship with this computer entity.
Speaker for the Dead[edit]
Jane is first introduced in Speaker for the Dead as an advanced computer program. She is extremely complex, capable of performing trillions of tasks simultaneously, and has millions of levels of attention, even her most unaware one being much more alert than a human. Jane is hesitant to reveal herself to humanity, because she knows that she is the epitome of humanity's fear: an intelligent, thinking, computer program that cannot be controlled. She decided to reveal herself to Ender after she found out he wrote The Hive Queen and The Hegemon, in hopes that he would eventually understand her and one day reveal her true nature to humanity. She also "remembered" he was the only student to pass the Giant's Drink, one of the many Fantasy Game situations.
An electronic "jewel" in Ender's ear allows both of them to communicate and for her to see and hear everything from Ender's vantage point. She helps Ender with many things. For example, in the very beginning, she contacts an orbiting ship and pays $40 billion for it and the cargo. Ender's reliance on Jane becomes obvious when she no longer helps him; he must ask young Olhado to help him with his finances and computer searches, and does not know the password to his own bank account.
Jane plays a pivotal role in the development of the book. Jane guides Ender to Lusitania and helps him out considerably in obtaining information. In a pivotal scene, Ender impatiently disconnects her by turning off the jewel; Jane panics and is forced to reorient her vast amount of concentration which was focused on him. Concluding that Ender needs a common enemy to unite all of Lusitania together to help the piggies, she runs analysis on data and subversively gets Starways Congress to order the destruction of the planet. She makes it appear as Lusitania has cut off their ansible (she did this mainly to save a xenologer from being killed), triggering Starways Congress to send the "Evacuation Fleet," which is actually carrying the Molecular Disruption Device to destroy the planet. With the threat, Ender unites the colony to form a treaty with the piggies to assure mutual cooperation and peaceful coexistence.
No longer attached to Ender, she bonds with Miro, Ender's depressed paralyzed stepson.
Xenocide[edit]
In this novel, she silences the Lusitania Fleet by making it disappear from all ansibles. Starways Congress contracts the brightest mind on a world of geniuses, Han Fei-Tzu, to discover what happened to the fleet, as previous attempts have failed. He passes the task to his daughter, Han Qing-Jao. Jane leaves no evidence, however, and it is precisely this lack of evidence leads Qing-Jao to conclude that some unseen force is operating and monitoring all the ansibles at once. Although she suspects that it is the work of the gods, Jane realizes that Qing-Jao will eventually discover her existence.
Facing defeat, Jane reveals herself to Qing-Jao and her intellectually neglected servant, Si Wang-Mu. After a heated discussion, Qing-Jao despairs because Jane's power is vast; Jane can shut down all the ansibles, making it impossible for Qing-Jao to reveal Jane's presence. However, Jane knows that she cannot continue to silence Qing-Jao's message forever, since it would snowball into cutting off the entire planet of Path. Thus, Jane refuses to silence the ansible, Qing-Jao sends the message, and Starways Congress plans the systematic silencing of all ansibles to kill Jane.
In this book it is revealed that the Hive Queens, who were seeking a way to contact Ender during his crusade, attempted to construct a philotic 'bridge' so that they could contact him. This bridge was meant to be a connection between Ender, whose philotic web they did not understand, and a structure whose philotic web they did understand; for this baseline, they chose the Fantasy Game, since Ender was so deeply focused upon it and since its structure was sufficiently orderly. Jane was the bridge they constructed, imbuing her with the quality which all living things have, an "aiua" (resembling a soul). Jane, in other words, is an intelligent being, not just a collection of software. The Hive Queen further explains that Jane's aiua was called from a space outside of the universe, just as all aiuas are. Grego and Olhado, hearing this, hypothesize that, if someone can somehow contain all the information on how a spaceship's philotes are organized (i.e., its structure down to a subatomic level), that person could essentially "will" the spaceship Outside and In again, instantaneously (that is, without any time passing). This will be entirely dependent on Jane, since no other being possess the ample mental capacity to hold the complete structure of an object in their mind.
Jane's test flight consists of a sealed box with a door, Ender (to whom Jane is inextricably philotically linked; indeed, her aiúa resides within him), Miro (for the same reason), and Ela (so that she can create the recolada virus once they are Outside). While Outside, Ela creates the recolada virus, Miro recreates his healthy body and possesses it, and Ender unconsciously creates duplicates of his childhood brother and sister.
Children of the Mind[edit]
In the conclusion of the Ender Saga, Jane finds herself rapidly running out of processing power due to Starways Congress shutting down her active ansible connections one at a time in an attempt to deactivate her for good. The Congress completes the shutdown of all universal ansible connections, forcing Jane's "aiúa" (the term Jane uses to describe the entity of life which all living things have) to seek refuge amongst the Philotic Web of the Pequenino Mother-Trees.
Jane is also simultaneously responsible for instantaneous travel. A simple spacecraft is constructed (later deemed unnecessary due to Jane's precision in transportation), and through holding the image of the traveler in her consciousness, Jane can pick up the image and place it anywhere in the universe instantly. This advancement is threatened by Congress' attempt to deactivate her "program."
In the end, Jane is given corporeal form in the body created in the form of young Valentine, made of a portion of Ender's aiúa. Jane's aiúa is capable of transcending this corporeal form and returning to the philotic link of the Mother-Trees, or the reconstructed ansible network of which she was born, thus preserving the instantaneous method of travel. Jane, now in the possession of Val's body, marries Miro in a double-wedding ceremony along with Peter and Si-Wang-Mu.
Development[edit]
Card wasn't aware at the time of writing Speaker for the Dead that the computer that Ender interacted with would become a character.[1] Card considers Jane's character pivotal in developing Ender's adult persona and in the process, she became a living thing as well.[1] Her character became a major theme of the Xenocide. After killing the Buggers, Ender is responsible for reconciling the differences between the Piggies and Humans. In the process, Jane's character, as the sole member of her species, also must face reconciling with humanity.[2]
Critical reception[edit]
In a collection of criticism columns, David Langford commented that Jane's character was "unnecessary to the main action" of the story.[3] In Sarah Kember's Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life, Jane is compared to HAL from A Space Odyssey. Unlike HAL, which Kember described as artificial intelligence, Jane is artificial life and capable of asking critical questions about the nature of her existence.[4]
See also[edit]
Cortana, a character in the Halo series of videogames often said to be inspired by the Ender series
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Orson Scott Card (2013). Ender's Game Set II. Macmillan. ISBN 1466854790.
2.Jump up ^ Kathleen Woodward (2008). Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions. Duke University Press. p. 156. ISBN 0822392313.
3.Jump up ^ David Langford (2002). The Complete Critical Assembly: The Collected White Dwarf (And Gm, and Gmi) Sf Review Columns. Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 1587153300.
4.Jump up ^ Sarah Kember (2013). Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life. Routledge. ISBN 1134551916.

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 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
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Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

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Ender Wiggin·
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Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
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 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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Formics

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The Formics, also known as Buggers, are a fictional insect-like alien species from the Ender's Game series of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card.
Name[edit]
The term "Formic" is derived from formica, the Latin word for ant; whereas "bugger" is a pejorative used by humans; yet it was not until 1999's Ender's Shadow that the term 'Formic' was first used, interchangeably with 'Bugger'. Later books used 'Formic' almost exclusively, as the more 'scientific' term. This leads to odd scenarios in the continuity of the books, such as Valentine referring to them as "Buggers" in Ender's Game,[1] chronologically next as "Formics" in Ender in Exile,[2] and again as "Buggers" in Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide.[3]
Biology[edit]
The Formic species consists of hive-minded colonies directed by queens. While often described as "insectoid", the Formics are warm-blooded, and they respirate and perspire. If a queen dies, all the workers under her control lose their intelligence and ability to function immediately; but in Xenocide, implications exist that 'workers' can escape the influence of a queen. The Formic race is revealed to be trimorphic in Shadows in Flight. Drones are much smaller and depend on a Hive Queen for survival, and their bodies are shaped to spend their lives clinging to her, until upon her death, they take flight to seek out a new queen. Drones are capable of individual thought and action as well as mind-to-mind communication, more limited than that of a queen; whereas queens communicate instantaneously and can even do so with other species. Formics live in vast underground colonies, usually without light, informing the assumption that Formics make use of sensory apparatus outside the range of the electromagnetic spectrum visible to humans. In the first novel they have artificial lighting; whereas in Xenocide, Ender claims they rely on heat signature.
References[edit]
1. ^ Ender's Game. p. 237. "Valentine shivered, as if a cold breeze had suddenly passed. "I refuse to watch the bugger vids anymore. They're always the same.""2. ^ Ender in Exile. p. 46. ""The formics' worlds were all in the same arm of the galaxy as us, and not all that far away, as galaxies go," said Valentine primly, to goad him."3. ^ Xenocide. p. 173. ""What's wrong with the buggers getting offplanet?" asked Valentine."Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
First Meetings by Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card

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Ender's Game (1985)·
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 Xenocide (1991)·
 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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Ender's Game (comics)

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Ender's Game

Publication information

Publisher
Marvel Comics
Schedule
Monthly
Format
Ongoing series
Genre
 
Publication date
October 2008
Number of issues
47 (as of April 2012)
Creative team

Writer(s)
Christopher Yost, Mike Carey, Jake Blac, Aaron Johnston
Artist(s)
Pasqual Ferry, Sebastian Fiumara, Timothy Green, Pasqual Ferry, Pop Mahn
Creator(s)
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game is a series of comic book adaptations of science fiction novels written by Orson Scott Card published by Marvel Comics that began in October 2008. However, some have been all new content, not released before in novel format. The series, like the novels they are based on, are set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known colloquially as "Buggers" but more formally as "Formics". The central character, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, is one of the child soldiers trained at Battle School (and eventually Command School) to be the future leaders of the protection of Earth. The year is never specified, although the ages of the Wiggin children are specified to change throughout space, also carefully taking in the relativity of space and time.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Background 1.1 Format
2 Titles 2.1 Ender's Game: Battle School
2.2 Ender's Shadow: Battle School
2.3 Ender's Game: Command School
2.4 Ender's Shadow: Command School
2.5 Recruiting Valentine
2.6 War of Gifts
2.7 Mazer in Prison
2.8 The League War
2.9 Ender in Exile
2.10 Speaker for the Dead
2.11 Formic Wars: Burning Earth
2.12 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
3 Chronological order of series
4 Other series 4.1 Gold Bug
5 Collected editions
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Background[edit]
Format[edit]
The series of comics are adaptations of the novels in the Ender Saga and are released under the banner "Actual Ender's Game". The series began publication in October 2008 with the first issue of Ender's Game: Battle School, with a set monthly release that followed. Both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow stories were told spanning ten issues each, with two different sub-titles. Orson Scott Card's name has been attached to every issue released. Though he himself has not written any of the issues thus far, he does look over all that is published.[1]
Titles[edit]

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Ender's Game: Battle School[edit]
A five-part series based on Ender's Game. The first issue was released October 2008. There's a war coming. The same aliens who almost destroyed Earth once are coming back to get the whole job done this time. But we aren't going to just sit and die. The international military is taking our best and brightest to mold them into the finest military minds ever - and they're taking them young. 6-year-old Ender Wiggin is the best they've ever found. Can he save the Earth? Can he survive Battle School and the game that they will force him to play he loves to do it?[2]
Ender's Shadow: Battle School[edit]
A five-part series based on Ender's Shadow. A mysterious orphan on the streets of Rotterdam, no bigger than a bean, will change the world. There's only one student at Battle School smarter than Ender Wiggin - Bean[3]
Ender's Game: Command School[edit]
A five-part series that picks up where Ender's Game: Battle School left off. Ender Wiggin may be the only hope that humanity has against an alien race that threatens Earth with annihilation. He's been given his own army, and now commands 40 soldiers in a series of war games in preparation for invasion... and he's only nine years old! The classic sci-fi story heads to its incredible conclusion as Ender takes control of Dragon Army. But Ender is quickly realizing that the aliens may not be his true enemy in Battle School... his Teachers are!
Ender's Shadow: Command School[edit]
A five-part series that picks up where Ender's Shadow: Battle School left off. With time running out for the human race, Bean is assigned to Dragon army under the command of the legendary Ender Wiggin. But their relationship is a bruising clash of egos and agendas from the start - and it only gets worse when Dragon face their first battle
Recruiting Valentine[edit]
Released June 2009, this one-shot is the first in all new content not released in novel format. Ender Wiggin may be in space learning to fight Formics, but his older siblings Peter and Valentine are saving the world back on Earth. When Valentine learns of an injustice in her school, she wants to fight it. Enter Peter who guides his sister through the process of nonviolent influence, and sets the ball rolling for his plans to one day rule the world. Jake Black, writer of the upcoming Ender's Game Companion, adds this previously untold story to the Ender's Universe. Ender's Game.[4]
War of Gifts[edit]
Released December 2009, this one-shot is based on the novel of the same name, taking place during the events of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Zeck Morgan was raised by his minister father to be a pious, God-fearing child, devoted to his church. Unfortunately, when the International Fleet decides Zeck is a candidate for training in Battle School, they tear him from his home and prepare him for war. Zeck refuses to participate in the school's war-games due to his pacifist religious beliefs. When he sees another student celebrating Christmas—seemingly violating Battle School's rules against religious practice—he raises an uproar that may tear Battle School apart. Can even Ender Wiggin calm this furor? [5]
Mazer in Prison[edit]
Released February 2010, this is a one-shot prequel based on the short story of the same name. Mazer Rackham, the only man ever to defeat the Formics, takes on a new enemy… the International Fleet itself. Burdened with careerists and bureaucrats, the I.F. is doomed to fail in the coming war, and only Rackham, with the help a young Hyrum Graff, can rid the I.F. of its old guard and pave the way for Earth’s next great commander.[6]
The League War[edit]
Released April 2010, Ender Wiggin is not the only genius child to influence the course of Earth's history. Not even the only one in his family. After the end of the final Formic War, the nations of the Earth are scrambling for power...and Peter and Valentine Wiggin, Ender's older and equally intelligent siblings, will start and end a world war with nothing more than words. This follow-up to Ender's Game fills in new detail between the pages of the multiple Hugo Award winning Ender Wiggin series by Orson Scott Card.[7]
Ender in Exile[edit]
Released from June–October 2010. The direct sequel to Ender’s Game. Thirteen-year-old Ender Wiggin has saved mankind from an alien threat. His reward? Exile. Branded a monster by those who feel threatened by his military genius, Ender is suddenly a hero without a home. Consumed with guilt, Ender must face his own demons and the people who are bent on stripping him of power. Based on the bestselling novel of the of the same name by Orson Scott Card.[8]
Speaker for the Dead[edit]
Monthly release began in January 2011. Ender Wiggin was twelve years old when he destroyed an alien race. Burdened with guilt, he wrote Speaker for the Dead and created a pseudo-religion that spanned the known worlds. Now an adult, Ender is called to investigate a murder committed by a new alien species with a seemingly gruesome nature. Can Ender uncover the truth before another species and more human lives are lost? Based on the award-winning novel by Orson Scott Card.[9]
Formic Wars: Burning Earth[edit]
Monthly release began in February 2011. The story is said be the second story in the comics to not be based on either a novel or short story, making it all new content. (The first to have all new content was Recruiting Valentine.) Ender Wiggin may have ended humanity's war with the Formic race in the best-selling, award-winning novel "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, but the fight to squash the bugs began long before the battle strategist even took his first baby steps. Now for the first time ever, fans finally get to see how the Ender Saga first began with the seven-issue limited series.[10]
Formic Wars: Silent Strike[edit]
Monthly releases began in December 2011. The story is not based on a novel or short story, making it all new content. This is a five-issue limited series.
Chronological order of series[edit]
As with the novels the comics do have a correct time line, of which each story takes place.
1.Formic Wars: Burning Earth
2.Formic Wars: Silent Strike
3.Mazer in Prison
4.Ender's Game: Battle School/Ender's Shadow: Battle School
5.Recruiting Valentine
6.War of Gifts
7.Ender's Game: Command School/Ender's Shadow: Command School
8.The League War
9.Ender in Exile
10.Gold Bug
11.Speaker for the Dead
Other series[edit]
Gold Bug[edit]
An adaptation of Orson Scott Card's short story The Gold Bug, first published in Card's webzine Intergalactic Medicine Show, was released on March 17, 2007 as a bonus with the purchase of the hardcover edition of the comic adaptation Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker.[11]
Collected editions[edit]
Gold Bug appears in the hardcover edition of Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker.

Title
Material Collected
ISBN
Publication Date
Ender's Game: Battle School Ender's Game: Battle School #1-5 0785135807 July 29, 2009
Ender's Shadow: Battle School Ender's Shadow: Battle School #1-5 0785135960 July 29, 2009
Ender's Game: Command School Ender's Game: Command School #1-5 0785135820 March 24, 2010
Ender's Shadow: Command School Ender's Shadow: Command School #1-5 0785135987 April 7, 2010
Ender's Game: War of Gifts Recruiting Valentine, War of Gifts, The League War, and Mazer in Prison 0785135901 June 16, 2010
Ender's Game: Ender in Exile Ender in Exile #1-5 0785135847 January 26, 2011
Ender's Game: Speaker for the Dead Speaker for the Dead #1-5 0785135863 August 3, 2011
Ender's Game: Formic Wars: Burning Earth Formic Wars: Burning Earth #1-7 0785136096 September 21, 2011
Ender's Game Ultimate Collection Ender's Game: Battle School #1-5 and Ender's Game: Command School #1-5 0785163379 January 18, 2012
Ender's Shadow Ultimate Collection Ender's Shadow: Battle School #1-5 and Ender's Shadow: Command School #1-5 0785163387 February 15, 2012
Ender's Game: Formic Wars: Silent Strike Formic Wars: Silent Strike #1-5 0785136142 July 25, 2012
See also[edit]
List of characters in the Ender's Game series
Concepts in the Ender's Game series
List of works by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game (series)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Marvel.com article".
2.Jump up ^ "Chris Yost: Bringing Ender Wiggin to Comics". Newsarama. October 6, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
3.Jump up ^ "Enrolling in School: Carey on Ender's Shadow: Battle School". Newsarama. December 2, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
4.Jump up ^ http://comics.ign.com/articles/965/965593p9.html
5.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=13663
6.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=14005
7.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=14694l
8.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=17567
9.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=17504
10.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.13335.sdcc_2010~colon~_the_formic_wars~colon~_burning_earth
11.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game Hits Comics". IGN. March 5, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
External links[edit]
Ender's Game: Battle School at the Grand Comics Database
Ender's Game: Battle School at the Comic Book DB
 

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Ender's Game (comics)

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Ender's Game

Publication information

Publisher
Marvel Comics
Schedule
Monthly
Format
Ongoing series
Genre
 
Publication date
October 2008
Number of issues
47 (as of April 2012)
Creative team

Writer(s)
Christopher Yost, Mike Carey, Jake Blac, Aaron Johnston
Artist(s)
Pasqual Ferry, Sebastian Fiumara, Timothy Green, Pasqual Ferry, Pop Mahn
Creator(s)
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game is a series of comic book adaptations of science fiction novels written by Orson Scott Card published by Marvel Comics that began in October 2008. However, some have been all new content, not released before in novel format. The series, like the novels they are based on, are set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known colloquially as "Buggers" but more formally as "Formics". The central character, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, is one of the child soldiers trained at Battle School (and eventually Command School) to be the future leaders of the protection of Earth. The year is never specified, although the ages of the Wiggin children are specified to change throughout space, also carefully taking in the relativity of space and time.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Background 1.1 Format
2 Titles 2.1 Ender's Game: Battle School
2.2 Ender's Shadow: Battle School
2.3 Ender's Game: Command School
2.4 Ender's Shadow: Command School
2.5 Recruiting Valentine
2.6 War of Gifts
2.7 Mazer in Prison
2.8 The League War
2.9 Ender in Exile
2.10 Speaker for the Dead
2.11 Formic Wars: Burning Earth
2.12 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
3 Chronological order of series
4 Other series 4.1 Gold Bug
5 Collected editions
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Background[edit]
Format[edit]
The series of comics are adaptations of the novels in the Ender Saga and are released under the banner "Actual Ender's Game". The series began publication in October 2008 with the first issue of Ender's Game: Battle School, with a set monthly release that followed. Both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow stories were told spanning ten issues each, with two different sub-titles. Orson Scott Card's name has been attached to every issue released. Though he himself has not written any of the issues thus far, he does look over all that is published.[1]
Titles[edit]

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Ender's Game: Battle School[edit]
A five-part series based on Ender's Game. The first issue was released October 2008. There's a war coming. The same aliens who almost destroyed Earth once are coming back to get the whole job done this time. But we aren't going to just sit and die. The international military is taking our best and brightest to mold them into the finest military minds ever - and they're taking them young. 6-year-old Ender Wiggin is the best they've ever found. Can he save the Earth? Can he survive Battle School and the game that they will force him to play he loves to do it?[2]
Ender's Shadow: Battle School[edit]
A five-part series based on Ender's Shadow. A mysterious orphan on the streets of Rotterdam, no bigger than a bean, will change the world. There's only one student at Battle School smarter than Ender Wiggin - Bean[3]
Ender's Game: Command School[edit]
A five-part series that picks up where Ender's Game: Battle School left off. Ender Wiggin may be the only hope that humanity has against an alien race that threatens Earth with annihilation. He's been given his own army, and now commands 40 soldiers in a series of war games in preparation for invasion... and he's only nine years old! The classic sci-fi story heads to its incredible conclusion as Ender takes control of Dragon Army. But Ender is quickly realizing that the aliens may not be his true enemy in Battle School... his Teachers are!
Ender's Shadow: Command School[edit]
A five-part series that picks up where Ender's Shadow: Battle School left off. With time running out for the human race, Bean is assigned to Dragon army under the command of the legendary Ender Wiggin. But their relationship is a bruising clash of egos and agendas from the start - and it only gets worse when Dragon face their first battle
Recruiting Valentine[edit]
Released June 2009, this one-shot is the first in all new content not released in novel format. Ender Wiggin may be in space learning to fight Formics, but his older siblings Peter and Valentine are saving the world back on Earth. When Valentine learns of an injustice in her school, she wants to fight it. Enter Peter who guides his sister through the process of nonviolent influence, and sets the ball rolling for his plans to one day rule the world. Jake Black, writer of the upcoming Ender's Game Companion, adds this previously untold story to the Ender's Universe. Ender's Game.[4]
War of Gifts[edit]
Released December 2009, this one-shot is based on the novel of the same name, taking place during the events of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Zeck Morgan was raised by his minister father to be a pious, God-fearing child, devoted to his church. Unfortunately, when the International Fleet decides Zeck is a candidate for training in Battle School, they tear him from his home and prepare him for war. Zeck refuses to participate in the school's war-games due to his pacifist religious beliefs. When he sees another student celebrating Christmas—seemingly violating Battle School's rules against religious practice—he raises an uproar that may tear Battle School apart. Can even Ender Wiggin calm this furor? [5]
Mazer in Prison[edit]
Released February 2010, this is a one-shot prequel based on the short story of the same name. Mazer Rackham, the only man ever to defeat the Formics, takes on a new enemy… the International Fleet itself. Burdened with careerists and bureaucrats, the I.F. is doomed to fail in the coming war, and only Rackham, with the help a young Hyrum Graff, can rid the I.F. of its old guard and pave the way for Earth’s next great commander.[6]
The League War[edit]
Released April 2010, Ender Wiggin is not the only genius child to influence the course of Earth's history. Not even the only one in his family. After the end of the final Formic War, the nations of the Earth are scrambling for power...and Peter and Valentine Wiggin, Ender's older and equally intelligent siblings, will start and end a world war with nothing more than words. This follow-up to Ender's Game fills in new detail between the pages of the multiple Hugo Award winning Ender Wiggin series by Orson Scott Card.[7]
Ender in Exile[edit]
Released from June–October 2010. The direct sequel to Ender’s Game. Thirteen-year-old Ender Wiggin has saved mankind from an alien threat. His reward? Exile. Branded a monster by those who feel threatened by his military genius, Ender is suddenly a hero without a home. Consumed with guilt, Ender must face his own demons and the people who are bent on stripping him of power. Based on the bestselling novel of the of the same name by Orson Scott Card.[8]
Speaker for the Dead[edit]
Monthly release began in January 2011. Ender Wiggin was twelve years old when he destroyed an alien race. Burdened with guilt, he wrote Speaker for the Dead and created a pseudo-religion that spanned the known worlds. Now an adult, Ender is called to investigate a murder committed by a new alien species with a seemingly gruesome nature. Can Ender uncover the truth before another species and more human lives are lost? Based on the award-winning novel by Orson Scott Card.[9]
Formic Wars: Burning Earth[edit]
Monthly release began in February 2011. The story is said be the second story in the comics to not be based on either a novel or short story, making it all new content. (The first to have all new content was Recruiting Valentine.) Ender Wiggin may have ended humanity's war with the Formic race in the best-selling, award-winning novel "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, but the fight to squash the bugs began long before the battle strategist even took his first baby steps. Now for the first time ever, fans finally get to see how the Ender Saga first began with the seven-issue limited series.[10]
Formic Wars: Silent Strike[edit]
Monthly releases began in December 2011. The story is not based on a novel or short story, making it all new content. This is a five-issue limited series.
Chronological order of series[edit]
As with the novels the comics do have a correct time line, of which each story takes place.
1.Formic Wars: Burning Earth
2.Formic Wars: Silent Strike
3.Mazer in Prison
4.Ender's Game: Battle School/Ender's Shadow: Battle School
5.Recruiting Valentine
6.War of Gifts
7.Ender's Game: Command School/Ender's Shadow: Command School
8.The League War
9.Ender in Exile
10.Gold Bug
11.Speaker for the Dead
Other series[edit]
Gold Bug[edit]
An adaptation of Orson Scott Card's short story The Gold Bug, first published in Card's webzine Intergalactic Medicine Show, was released on March 17, 2007 as a bonus with the purchase of the hardcover edition of the comic adaptation Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker.[11]
Collected editions[edit]
Gold Bug appears in the hardcover edition of Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker.

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ISBN
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Ender's Game: Battle School Ender's Game: Battle School #1-5 0785135807 July 29, 2009
Ender's Shadow: Battle School Ender's Shadow: Battle School #1-5 0785135960 July 29, 2009
Ender's Game: Command School Ender's Game: Command School #1-5 0785135820 March 24, 2010
Ender's Shadow: Command School Ender's Shadow: Command School #1-5 0785135987 April 7, 2010
Ender's Game: War of Gifts Recruiting Valentine, War of Gifts, The League War, and Mazer in Prison 0785135901 June 16, 2010
Ender's Game: Ender in Exile Ender in Exile #1-5 0785135847 January 26, 2011
Ender's Game: Speaker for the Dead Speaker for the Dead #1-5 0785135863 August 3, 2011
Ender's Game: Formic Wars: Burning Earth Formic Wars: Burning Earth #1-7 0785136096 September 21, 2011
Ender's Game Ultimate Collection Ender's Game: Battle School #1-5 and Ender's Game: Command School #1-5 0785163379 January 18, 2012
Ender's Shadow Ultimate Collection Ender's Shadow: Battle School #1-5 and Ender's Shadow: Command School #1-5 0785163387 February 15, 2012
Ender's Game: Formic Wars: Silent Strike Formic Wars: Silent Strike #1-5 0785136142 July 25, 2012
See also[edit]
List of characters in the Ender's Game series
Concepts in the Ender's Game series
List of works by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game (series)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Marvel.com article".
2.Jump up ^ "Chris Yost: Bringing Ender Wiggin to Comics". Newsarama. October 6, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
3.Jump up ^ "Enrolling in School: Carey on Ender's Shadow: Battle School". Newsarama. December 2, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
4.Jump up ^ http://comics.ign.com/articles/965/965593p9.html
5.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=13663
6.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=14005
7.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=14694l
8.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=17567
9.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=17504
10.Jump up ^ http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.13335.sdcc_2010~colon~_the_formic_wars~colon~_burning_earth
11.Jump up ^ "Ender's Game Hits Comics". IGN. March 5, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
External links[edit]
Ender's Game: Battle School at the Grand Comics Database
Ender's Game: Battle School at the Comic Book DB
 

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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)
See also[edit]

Portal icon Novels portal
List of characters in the Ender's Game series
Concepts in the Ender's Game series
List of works by Orson Scott Card
List of Short Stories in Ender's Universe
External links[edit]
About the book First Meetings from Card's website
First Meetings at the Tor-forge site

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Mazer in Prison

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"Mazer in Prison"
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Mazer in Prison artwork by Howard Lyon
 
Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
Intergalactic Medicine Show
Publisher
Hatrack River Enterprises
Media type
Electronic (HTML)
Publication date
2005

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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2 Characters
3 Audio
4 Publication
5 References
Plot summary[edit]
"Mazer in Prison" is the story of Mazer Rackham, the hero who saved the planet Earth in the second Formics invasion. As soon as the battle was over, Earth put together a fleet to send to the Formics home worlds to end the conflict once and for all. Since they needed a leader for this war, the Earth government decided to send Mazer out into space in a craft that was capable of near-lightspeed travel so that due to the relativistic effect he would return still young enough to lead the fleet into battle. Since he knew that he was not the best person to lead the fleet, Mazer reprogrammed the computer on board his ship so that the Earth government would no longer be able to control it. He then forced them to find a new fleet commander and arranged to have a young Hyrum Graff set up the Battle School to train possible candidates.
Characters[edit]
Admiral Mazer Rackham
Kim Arnsbrach Rackham Summers - Mazer's ex-wife
Pahu Rangi - Mazer's son
Pai Mahutanga - Mazer’s daughter
Kahui Kura (English name Mirth) - Pai Mahutanga's daughter
Pao Pao Te Rangi (English name Glad) - Pai Mahutanga's daughter
Mazer Taka Aho Howarth - Pai Mahutanga's son
Struan Maeroero - Pai Mahutanga's infant son
Lieutenant Hyrum Graff - later promoted to captain
Audio[edit]
In addition to the text version of the story, "Mazer in Prison" is also available from InterGalactic Medicine Show as an audio download. The story was read by Audie Award winner Stefan Rudnicki.
Publication[edit]
"Mazer in Prison" was published in the October 2005 issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show.[1] It also appears in the anthology Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show. It was also published in Subterranean Press's Subterranean Magazine Issue #5.[2] It was included in the 2009 "Federations" anthology of John Joseph Adams.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "Mazer in Prison" Intergalactic Medicine Show, October 2005.
2.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "Mazer in Prison" Subterranean Magazine

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Pretty Boy (short story)

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"Pretty Boy"
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Artwork for Pretty Boy, by Jin Han
 
Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
Intergalactic Medicine Show
Publisher
Hatrack River Enterprises
Media type
Electronic (HTML)
Publication date
2006

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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2 Characters
3 Publication
4 References
Plot summary[edit]
"Pretty Boy" is the story of Bonito "Bonzo" Madrid as a child. Bonito was born in Toledo, Spain and given a name that means "pretty boy". His father Amaro was a lawyer and Spanish patriot who adored his son. Because Bonito was very smart, the International Fleet came to test him when he was less than two years old. After that, Amaro took Bonito everywhere and gave him anything he wanted. As he grew older Bonito started to observe his family and discovered that they needed him to be happy so he decided not to go to Battle School. However while studying his parents to find out how to make them happier, he discovered that his father kept a second apartment in the city and told his mother. When he and his mother went to see his grandmother Bonito learned that his father was having an affair with another woman and had broken his mother's heart. Because Bonito didn't want to be like his father, he changed his mind and went to Battle School.
Characters[edit]
Tomas Benedito Bonito de Madrid y Valencia
Amaro de Madrid - Bonito's father
Tester from the International Fleet - unnamed
Bonito's mother - unnamed
Visitor who liked mother's flatbread - unnamed
Amaro's secretary - unnamed
Grandma - mother's mother
Publication[edit]
"Pretty Boy" was published in the March 2006 issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show.[1] It also appears in the anthology Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show.
References[edit]
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Cheater (short story)

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"Cheater"
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
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Publisher
Hatrack River Enterprises
Media type
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Publication date
2006
"Cheater" is a story by Orson Scott Card set in his Ender's Game universe. It tells the story of how "Hot Soup" Han Tzu got into Battle School. It appears in Card's Webzine InterGalactic Medicine Show.

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"Cheater" is the story of Han Tzu as a child. Han Tzu was born in Nanyang, China and was a descendent of Yuan Shikai, a great Chinese general. From a very young age, Han Tzu's father would play with him every day. It was his wish that Han Tzu would become a great general and bring glory back to China. When he got a little older, tutors began to come to his house to play games with him. After a while, Han Tzu discovered that the games were actually to prepare him for a test. One day, his tutor began teaching Han Tzu games from a list that his father had provided. When the testers from the International Fleet showed up to give Han Tzu the test, he figured out that his father was cheating. Han Tzu didn't want to pretend to be the best so he answered all the questions wrong. The next day, the people from the International Fleet showed up at Han Tzu's house and arrested his father for cheating but decided to test Han Tzu again, thus discovering how smart he really is.

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Han Tzu
Han Tzu's father - unnamed
Han Tzu's mama - unnamed
Tutors - mostly unnamed
Wei Dun-nuan - language tutor
Shen Guo-rong - testing tutor
Boys to play with - unnamed
Girls to play with - unnamed
Mu-ren - household cook
Pei-Tian - father's driver
International Fleet testers - unnamed
Soldier - unnamed
Audio[edit]
In addition to the text version of the story, "Cheater" is also available from InterGalactic Medicine Show as an audio download. The story was read by Orson Scott Card himself.
Publication[edit]
"Cheater" was published in the October 2006 issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show.[1] It also appears in the anthology Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "Cheater" Intergalactic Medicine Show, October 2006.

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A Young Man with Prospects

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"A Young Man with Prospects"
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Artwork for A Young Man with Prospects, by Julie Dillon
 
Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
Intergalactic Medicine Show
Publisher
Hatrack River Enterprises
Media type
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Publication date
2007
"A Young Man with Prospects" is a story by Orson Scott Card set in his Ender's Game universe. It tells the story of how Alessandra and Dorabella Toscano end up colonizing one of the former formic worlds. It appears in Card's Webzine InterGalactic Medicine Show.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot summary
2 Characters
3 Relationship to "The Gold Bug"
4 Publication
5 References
Plot summary[edit]
"A Young Man with Prospects" is the story of Alessandra Toscano. Alessandra is a poor thirteen-year-old girl from Monopoli, Italy. One day Alessandra's seemingly irresponsible mother comes home and announces that they will be colonizing one of the former Formics worlds. When she first finds out, Alessandra doesn't want to go, Alessandra then tracks down her grandmother whom she had never met and asks her for help. However, when her grandmother hears that Alessandra wants to stay with her she throws her out. Upon returning home Alessandra finds out that the reason they are so poor is because her mother has been paying her grandmother to stay out of their lives to protect Alessandra. When she learns this Alessandra agrees to go. Later Alessandra learns that she will be traveling with Ender Wiggin, who will be made governor of the colony when they arrive. Her mother hopes that they will fall in love and get married. On their last day in Italy Alessandra's grandmother comes to their house and begins screaming at them. Alessandra's mother stands up to the woman and tells her to go away. Alessandra later makes friends with Ender and under her mother's influence, tries to seduce him. This fails and she decides to go to the colony instead of staying aboard with her mom and Admiral Morgan. She later marries Po, Ix's older son.
Characters[edit]
Alessandra Toscano
Dorabella Toscano - Alessandra's mother
Isabella Santangelo – Dorabella's mother
Alessandra’s neighbors – unnamed
Relationship to "The Gold Bug"[edit]
According to Card while he was writing "The Gold Bug" he started to think about how Ender got to the colony. As a result he came up with a story idea which involved a power-struggle between Ender and the ship's captain. However, since Card didn't want the story to be only about Ender and the captain he decided to put a mother and daughter on the ship. When he first began writing about Alessandra and Dorabella Toscano it was supposed to have been the opening for that story, but as he sat down to plan the scenes they developed into a story of their own.[1]
Publication[edit]
"A Young Man with Prospects" was published in the February 2007 issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show.[2] It also appears in the anthology Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show. This story also appears as Chapter 5 of Card's novel Ender in Exile.[3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "How One Story Can Give Birth to Another" Intergalactic Medicine Show, February 2007.
2.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "A Young Man With Prospects" Intergalactic Medicine Show, February 2007.
3.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile, New York, Tor Books, 2008.

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Ender's Game (1985)·
 Speaker for the Dead (1986)·
 Xenocide (1991)·
 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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The Gold Bug (short story)

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"The Gold Bug"
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Artwork for The Gold Bug, by Jin Han
 
Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
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Language
English
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
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Publisher
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Media type
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Publication date
2007
"The Gold Bug" is a story by Orson Scott Card set in his Ender's Game universe. It tells the story of how Sel Menach steps aside as leader of a colony world to let Ender Wiggin take over as governor. It appears in Card's Webzine InterGalactic Medicine Show.

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2 Relationship to "A Young Man with Prospects"
3 Publication
4 References
Plot summary[edit]
"The Gold Bug" is the story of Sel Menach, a fighter pilot in the Formic war, xenobiologist, and eventually the governor of one of the former Formics worlds. When a colony ship from Earth arrives, carrying Ender Wiggin, the new soon-to-be governor, Sel decides to go on an expedition into unexplored lands so that it will be easier for Ender to take over as governor. On the expedition, Sel discovers some caves with large golden bugs, which he believes to be a cross between the Formics and a parasite native to the planet. He establishes some limited contact with the hybrid creatures and discovers they are hungry and want to be fed and while he brings that food, Ender shows up, arranges for the bugs to be fed, and takes Sel back to the colony and his work as a xenobiologist.
Relationship to "A Young Man with Prospects"[edit]
According to Card, while he was writing this story, he started to think about how Ender got to the colony and as a result, came up with a story involving a power struggle between Ender and the ship's captain. However, since Card didn't want the story to be only about Ender and the captain, he decided to put a mother and daughter on the ship and the story of the two women, originally meant as an opening for the story evolved into the short story "A Young Man with Prospects".[1]
Publication[edit]
"The Gold Bug" was published in the July 2007 issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show.[2] It was also adapted into an Ender comic and can be found as an added bonus in the Marvel Comics hardcover edition of Red Prophet: The Tales Of Alvin Maker. Parts of this story occur in Chapters 14, 15, and 16 of Card's novel Ender in Exile.[3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "How One Story Can Give Birth to Another" Intergalactic Medicine Show, February 2007.
2.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "The Gold Bug" Intergalactic Medicine Show, July 2007.
3.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile, New York, Tor Books, 2008.

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 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
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Ender's Stocking

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"Ender's Stocking"
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Artwork for Ender's Stocking, by Jin Han
 
Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
Intergalactic Medicine Show
Publisher
Hatrack River Enterprises
Media type
Electronic (HTML)
Publication date
2007

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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2 Characters
3 Connection to A War of Gifts
4 Publication
5 References
Plot summary[edit]
"Ender's Stocking" is the story of Peter Wiggin while he was a boy in high school. Two days before Christmas Peter was in the library and he decided to try and act friendly to one of his classmates. After the girl rejected him, Peter went home and had a fight with his mother because she was sad about Ender being away at Battle School. Later that day Peter went for a walk and began to think about why people didn't like him. He came to the conclusion that people hated him because they were afraid of him and because he frequently tried to use force to get people to do what he wanted. It then occurred to Peter that the best way to get people to do what he wanted was to convince them that he cared about them and that he wanted to help them. He tried this out on his family and found that it worked. As a result he started doing it to other people as well.
Characters[edit]
Peter Wiggin
John Paul Wiggin (Peter's father)
Theresa Wiggin (Peter's mother)
Valentine Wiggin - Peter's sister
Mirabella "Bell" - Peter's classmate
Bell's friends - unnamed
Classmates - mostly unnamed
Teachers - unnamed
Principal - unnamed
Connection to A War of Gifts[edit]
The first part of this short story where Peter fights with his mother over the Christmas stocking she has prepared for Ender while he is away at Battle School became Chapter 2 Ender’s Stocking of Card’s book A War of Gifts.[1] However, this chapter seems to be unrelated to the rest of the book and has been criticized for detracting from the rest of the story.[2]
Publication[edit]
"Ender's Stocking" was published in the October 2007 issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show.[3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, A War of Gifts, Tor Books, November 2007.
2.Jump up ^ Steven H Silver, "A War of Gifts: A review" SF Site, 2008.
3.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Stocking" Intergalactic Medicine Show, October 2007.

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Ender's Homecoming

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"Ender's Homecoming"

Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
Intergalactic Medicine Show
Publisher
Hatrack River Enterprises
Media type
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Publication date
2008
"Ender's Homecoming" is a story by Orson Scott Card set in his Ender's Game universe. It tells the story of how Ender's parents and sister conspire to keep him from returning to Earth so he will be safe. It appears in Card's Webzine InterGalactic Medicine Show.[citation needed]

Contents
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2 Characters
3 Publication
4 References
Plot summary[edit]
When Ender’s mother, Theresa Wiggin first gets a letter from Colonel Hyrum Graff she is shocked to learn that he thinks that Ender might need protection. However, as she thinks about it and discusses it with her husband, John Paul Wiggin she realizes that Ender would never be safe on Earth. Since they cannot come right out and say that they want their son to stay in space they decide to get their super-genius children to help persuade people that this is the best thing to do. Theresa sends the letter from Graff to Ender’s sister Valentine which helps her to realize that Ender won’t be safe on earth. John Paul makes a comment to Peter to suggest that he will always be in Ender’s shadow if he returns to earth. As a result Valentine and Peter begin a media campaign to keep Ender in space. Valentine then writes a letter to Graff asking to be sent into space to be with her brother. In the final pages Card reveals that there is no end conceived for the Ender story line.
Characters[edit]
Colonel Hyrum Graff
John Paul Wiggin
Theresa Wiggin
Valentine Wiggin
Peter Wiggin
Valentine’s teacher - unnamed
Publication[edit]
"Ender's Homecoming" was published in the January 2008 issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show.[1] Most of this story also appears as Chapter 1 of Card's novel Ender in Exile. The final email from Valentine to Hyrum Graff at the end of the story is the beginning of Chapter 2.[2]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Homecoming" Intergalactic Medicine Show, January 2008.
2.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile, New York, Tor Books, 2008.

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Ender's Game (1985)·
 Speaker for the Dead (1986)·
 Xenocide (1991)·
 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
Concepts
Hegemon of Earth·
 Organizations·
 Planets
 

 

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Ender in Flight

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"Ender in Flight"

Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
Intergalactic Medicine Show
Publisher
Hatrack River Enterprises
Media type
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Publication date
2008
"Ender in Flight" is a story by Orson Scott Card set in his Ender's Game universe. It takes place in between "A Young Man With Prospects" and "The Gold Bug". It tells the story of a power struggle between Ender and Admiral Quincy Morgan on the voyage to the colony world Shakespeare. It appears in Card's Webzine InterGalactic Medicine Show.

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2 Characters
3 Relationship to "The Gold Bug"
4 Publication
5 References
Plot summary[edit]
Ender and Valentine Wiggin are on their way to the new human colony planet Shakespeare where Ender is to become the governor. Most of the passengers on board have decided to be put in stasis for the two year duration of the flight. Alessandra and Dorabella Toscano are among the colonists who chose to stay awake. During the trip they befriend Ender because Dorabella wants Ender to fall in love with and marry her daughter. The captain of the ship, Admiral Quincy Morgan, has a power struggle with Ender who he considers to be nothing more than a spoiled teenager. However, as soon as the ship lands the captain is reminded by Ender, and his superiors from the International Fleet, that Ender is his superior officer on the planet and that he has to return to Earth.
Characters[edit]
Admiral Quincy Morgan
Valentine Wiggin
Governor Andrew Wiggin (Ender)
Ensign Akbar
Colonel Jarrko Kitunen - passenger liaison officer
Dorabella Toscano - mother
Alessandra Toscano – daughter
Ensign – unnamed
Ix Tolo - acting governor
Commodore Vlad das Lagrimas - executive officer
Ship’s crew – unnamed
Marines - unnamed
Colonists - unnamed
Relationship to "The Gold Bug"[edit]
According to Card he came up with the idea for this story while he was writing "The Gold Bug". While working on that short story he started to think about how Ender got to the colony and came up with the idea of a power-struggle between Ender and the ship's captain. [1]
Publication[edit]
"Ender in Flight" was published in the April 2008 issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show.[2] Parts of this story are spread throughout much of Card's novel Ender in Exile. 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.[3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "How One Story Can Give Birth to Another" Intergalactic Medicine Show, February 2007.
2.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Flight" Intergalactic Medicine Show, April 2008.
3.Jump up ^ Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile, New York, Tor Books, 2008.

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 Speaker for the Dead (1986)·
 Xenocide (1991)·
 Children of the Mind (1996)·
 Ender's Shadow (1999)·
 Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)·
 Shadow Puppets (2002)·
 First Meetings (2002)·
 Shadow of the Giant (2005)·
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)·
 Ender in Exile (2008)·
 Shadows in Flight (2012)·
 Earth Unaware (2012)·
 Earth Afire (2013)·
 Earth Awakens (2014)·
 Shadows Alive (TBA)
 
 
Short stories

Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)
 
 
First Meetings (2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
 "Teacher's Pest"·
 "Ender's Game"·
 "Investment Counselor"
 
 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
 "Pretty Boy"·
 "Cheater"·
 "A Young Man with Prospects"·
 "The Gold Bug"·
 "Ender's Stocking"·
 "Ender's Homecoming"·
 "Ender in Flight"
 

 
Comics
Gold Bug·
 Ender's Game: Battle School·
 Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
 Recruiting Valentine·
 Ender's Game: Command School·
 Ender's Shadow: Command School·
 War of Gifts·
 Mazer in Prison·
 The League War·
 Ender in Exile·
 Speaker for the Dead·
 Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
 Formic Wars: Silent Strike
 
 
Film
Ender's Game
 
 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room
 

 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
 John Paul Wiggin·
 Peter Wiggin·
 Theresa Wiggin·
 Valentine Wiggin
 
 
Battle School
Alai·
 Petra Arkanian·
 Bean·
 Ender's jeesh·
 Achilles de Flandres·
 Han Tzu·
 Other students
 
 
Other
Anton·
 Sister Carlotta·
 Descoladores·
 Fleet personnel·
 Formics·
 Hive Queen·
 Jane·
 Pequeninos·
 Poke·
 Han Qing-jao·
 Stilson·
 Volescu·
 Si Wang-mu
 

 
Concepts
Hegemon of Earth·
 Organizations·
 Planets
 

 

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The Polish Boy

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"The Polish Boy"
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
First Meetings
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Publication date
2002

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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"The Polish Boy" is a story by Orson Scott Card set in his Ender's Game universe. It tells the story of how John Paul Wieczorek (Ender’s father) as a small child gets tested by the International Fleet and convinces them to get his family out of Poland. It first appeared in Card's short story collection, First Meetings.

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2 Characters 2.1 Wieczorek family
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3 References
4 External links
Plot summary[edit]
John Paul is a very smart child who is being home schooled because his family refused to comply with the populations control laws. One day, Captain Helena Rudolf from the International Fleet shows up to test three of John Paul’s brothers for possible admission into Battle School. She notices John Paul reading a book and decides to test him early. He passes the test and gets a very high score for leadership. The IF tries to get him to go to Battle School, but John Paul is only interested in trying to get his family out of Poland so that they can have a better life and he can get a good education. Captain Graff realizes this, but agrees to send the Wieczorek family to America because he hopes that one of John Paul’s children will go to Battle School.
This story contains younger versions of important characters in the Enderverse, such as Ender's father John Paul Wieczorek (later Wiggin), Hyrum Graff, and Admiral Chamrajnagar. Other characters associated with the IF appear, including Captain Helena Rudolf and Colonel Sillian.
Characters[edit]
Wieczorek family[edit]
John Paul
Mother - unnamed
Father - unnamed
Peter - oldest brother
Catherine - oldest sister
Nicholas - older brother
Thomas - older brother
Anna - older sister
Andrew - older brother
Two babies - unnamed
International Fleet personnel[edit]
Captain Helena Rudolf - tester
Colonel Sillian
Captain Graff
Captain Chamrajnagar
Russian general - unnamed
Other characters[edit]
Magdalena "Magda" Teczlo - Wieczorek's lawyer
References[edit]
"The Polish Boy" by Orson Scott Card
The Hatrack Orson Scott Card’s official website.
External links[edit]
About the story "The Polish Boy" - from Card’s website

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Teacher's Pest

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"Teacher’s Pest"
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
First Meetings
Publisher
Tor Books
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Publication date
2003

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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While going to college, John Paul is assigned to take a Human Communities class being taught by Theresa Brown. First being annoyed at having to take a class being taught by a graduate student, John Paul soon changes his mind as Theresa Brown leads the class through a provocative debate about communities, war, and population laws. Unfortunately, she has just been told that her research project is being taken away from her in an effort to get her father Admiral Brown to come out of retirement. As a result, she does not want to speak to anyone. Determined, John Paul waits outside her office and orders food for her while she talks to her father on the phone. When she finally comes out, he is still waiting for her. She decides to eat with him, and during the meal John Paul tells her about his secret past. As they continue to talk, they both begin to fall in love.
Characters[edit]
John Paul Wiggin
Classmates - unnamed
Theresa Brown - student teacher
Admiral Hinckley Brown - Theresa's father
Theresa's dissertation committee - unnamed
Dr. Howell - professor
The dean - unnamed
References[edit]
"Teacher's Pest" by Orson Scott Card
The Hatrack Orson Scott Card's official website.
External links[edit]
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Ender's Game (short story)

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"Ender's Game"

Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
Analog
Publication type
Periodical
Publisher
Dell Magazines
Media type
Print (Magazine)
Publication date
1977
"Ender's Game" is a story by Orson Scott Card. It first appeared in the August 1977 issue of Analog magazine and was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. Although the foundation of the Ender's Game series, the short story is not properly part of the Ender's Game universe, as there are many discrepancies in continuity.

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2 Characters 2.1 Children
2.2 Adults
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4 Publication
5 References
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Plot summary[edit]
This story begins as Ender is made the commander of Dragon Army at Battle School, an institution designed to make young children into military commanders against an unspecified enemy. Armies are groups of students that fight mock battles in the Battle Room, a null gravity environment, and are subdivided into "toons". Due to Ender's genius in leadership, Dragon Army dominates the competition. After his nineteenth consecutive victory, Ender is told that his Army is being broken up and his toon leaders made commanders in their turn, while he is transferred to Command School for the next stage of his education. Here, veteran Mazer Rackham tutors him in the use of a space battle simulator. Eventually, many of his former toon leaders serve under him once more. Once familiar with the simulator, they fight a series of what Mazer tells them are mock battles against a computer-controlled enemy. Ender's team wins again and again, finally destroying a planet that the enemy fleet seems to be protecting. Once the battle is over, Mazer tells Ender that all battles were real, the children's commands having been relayed to the extant fleet, and that he has destroyed the enemy's home world and ended the war.
Characters[edit]
Children[edit]
Ender Wiggin[1] - commander of Dragon Army
Alai - Close friend of Ender's from his launch group
Bean - toon leader in Dragon Army and at Command School
Ren - toon leader in Dragon Army
Petra - toon leader in Dragon Army and at Command School
Brian - toon leader in Dragon Army
Wins - toon leader in Dragon Army and at Command School
Younger - toon leader in Dragon Army and at Command School
Lee - toon leader at Command School
Vlad - toon leader at Command School
Carn Carby - commander of Rabbit Army
Pol Slattery - commander of Leopard Army
William Bee - commander of Griffin Army
Adults[edit]
Captain Graff[2]
Lieutenant Anderson
Lieutenant Morris
Mazer Rackham
Teachers at Command School - unnamed
Medic at Command School - unnamed
Observers during the final battle - unnamed
Relationship to the novel[edit]
This short story was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. Although the basic plot is the same, the novel introduces many other elements.
The novel supplies a detailed background for Ender and the interstellar conflict with the Formics; whereas the short story supplies virtually no background whatsoever. The terms "Earth" and "human" do not occur at all, and the enemy remains nameless and faceless.
In the novel, Battle School is a space station orbiting Earth, and Command School inside the asteroid Eros. In the short story, the former is a terrestrial building and the latter an orbital space station. In the novel, fighting in the battle room is with hand-held weapons, instead of lasers built into the battle room suits.
In the novel, Ender's surname changes from "Wiggins" to "Wiggin, and the name of his "teacher" changes from "Maezr" to "Mazer".
Several characters are changed: the antagonist Bonzo Madrid replaces Pol Slattery as the commander who loses to Ender during an unfair battle, while Carn Carby is written as a much more supportive character. In the short story Ender tells Bean, "How can they put you under an idiot like Carn Carby!"[3] but in the novel says "Carn Carby's a good man. I hope he recognizes you for what you're worth".
The novel's final chapter introduces the sequel Speaker for the Dead.
Publication[edit]

 

 First Meetings, published in 2002, a short story collection containing "Ender's Game"Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1977
Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories, Dial Press, 1980
The Future at War vol. 2: The Spear of Mars, Ace Books, 1980
Analog Readers' Choice, Dial Press, 1981
Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories, Dell, 1981, with an introduction by Ben Bova discussing "Ender's Game" and the "discovery" of Card.
Analog Anthology #2, Davis Publications, 1982
There Will Be War, Tor Books, 1983
Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow: Science Fiction War Stories, Bonanza Books, 1987
Maps in a Mirror, Tor Books, 1990
First Meetings, Subterranean Press, 2002
The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Prentice-Hall 2003
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Called Ender Wiggins in original Short Story. See: Card, Orson Scott (August 1977), "Ender's Game", in Bova, Ben, Analog (Norwalk, CT, United States: Dell Magazines) 97 (8), para. 1, retrieved March 22, 2012, "Ender Wiggins paused and looked over the group."
2.Jump up ^ Called Captain Graff in original Short Story. See: Card, Orson Scott (August 1977), "Ender's Game", in Bova, Ben, Analog (Norwalk, CT, United States: Dell Magazines) 97 (8), para. 45, retrieved March 22, 2012, "Captain Graff, six foot two and a little chubby, stroked his belly as he leaned back in his chair."
3.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2003). "Ender's Game". First Meetings in Ender's Universe. New York: Tor. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-7653-4798-5.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Hatrack River - the official web site of Orson Scott Card
External links[edit]
Ender's Game title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Ender's Game e-text
About the story "Ender's Game" - from Card’s website
Publication history for "Ender's Game" - from Card's website

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Investment Counselor

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"Investment Counselor"
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
Far Horizons
Publisher
Avon Books
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Publication date
1999

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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"Investment Counselor" is a story by Orson Scott Card set in his Ender's Game universe. It tells the story of how Ender Wiggin first met the artificial intelligence Jane and became a speaker for the dead. It first appeared in the anthology Far Horizons edited by Robert Silverberg and then later in Card's short story collection First Meetings.

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3 References
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Ever since the events of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin has been voyaging through space at near-lightspeed. When he arrives at the planet Sorelledolce, he has just turned twenty in relativistic time, so he has to file his first tax return on the trust fund which had been given to him by the International Fleet at the end of the Third Bugger War. He shows his list of investments to Benedetto, a tax collector in the starport, who immediately plans to steal some of it. Meanwhile, Andrew receives an email offering him financial software, which has an interactive personality that calls itself Jane.
While they are on Sorelledolce, Andrew's sister Valentine Wiggin takes him to a "speaking" for a dead man. Andrew talks to the speaker and discovered that the man learned how to be a speaker for the dead from reading Ender's own books The Hive Queen and The Hegemon.
Andrew decides to accept the assistance of the Jane program. She prepares his tax forms, showing him ways to minimize what he owes. The amount is much less than he had expected. When Andrew delivers the forms to Benedetto, the tax collector tries to blackmail him because he has discovered Ender's identity as the hated Xenocide. But Benedetto finds that his files have mysteriously disappeared. In an attempt to get revenge against Ender, he tries to leak what data he still has to the media, but Jane appears on his screen and gives him a choice: "Either say nothing, or tell the whole truth."[1] Benedetto rejects the first option, but when the media receives his story, it has been mysteriously integrated with a full confession of his embezzlements.
Benedetto is arrested, and while he is in prison one of his more powerful victims has him killed. Andrew does a speaking at Benedetto's funeral. He has thus inadvertently given himself a career, that of "speaker for the dead."
Characters[edit]
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin
Valentine Wiggin – Ender's sister
Benedetto – a tax collector
Abyssinian hunter - unnamed
Jane – an artificial intelligence
People at a speaking – unnamed
A speaker for the dead - unnamed
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2003). "Investment Counselor". First Meetings in Ender's Universe. New York: Tor. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-7653-4798-5.
"Investment Counselor" by Orson Scott Card
The Hatrack Orson Scott Card's official website.
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Ender's Game (short story)

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"Ender's Game"

Author
Orson Scott Card
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Ender's Game series
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Published in
Analog
Publication type
Periodical
Publisher
Dell Magazines
Media type
Print (Magazine)
Publication date
1977
"Ender's Game" is a story by Orson Scott Card. It first appeared in the August 1977 issue of Analog magazine and was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. Although the foundation of the Ender's Game series, the short story is not properly part of the Ender's Game universe, as there are many discrepancies in continuity.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot summary
2 Characters 2.1 Children
2.2 Adults
3 Relationship to the novel
4 Publication
5 References
6 External links
Plot summary[edit]
This story begins as Ender is made the commander of Dragon Army at Battle School, an institution designed to make young children into military commanders against an unspecified enemy. Armies are groups of students that fight mock battles in the Battle Room, a null gravity environment, and are subdivided into "toons". Due to Ender's genius in leadership, Dragon Army dominates the competition. After his nineteenth consecutive victory, Ender is told that his Army is being broken up and his toon leaders made commanders in their turn, while he is transferred to Command School for the next stage of his education. Here, veteran Mazer Rackham tutors him in the use of a space battle simulator. Eventually, many of his former toon leaders serve under him once more. Once familiar with the simulator, they fight a series of what Mazer tells them are mock battles against a computer-controlled enemy. Ender's team wins again and again, finally destroying a planet that the enemy fleet seems to be protecting. Once the battle is over, Mazer tells Ender that all battles were real, the children's commands having been relayed to the extant fleet, and that he has destroyed the enemy's home world and ended the war.
Characters[edit]
Children[edit]
Ender Wiggin[1] - commander of Dragon Army
Alai - Close friend of Ender's from his launch group
Bean - toon leader in Dragon Army and at Command School
Ren - toon leader in Dragon Army
Petra - toon leader in Dragon Army and at Command School
Brian - toon leader in Dragon Army
Wins - toon leader in Dragon Army and at Command School
Younger - toon leader in Dragon Army and at Command School
Lee - toon leader at Command School
Vlad - toon leader at Command School
Carn Carby - commander of Rabbit Army
Pol Slattery - commander of Leopard Army
William Bee - commander of Griffin Army
Adults[edit]
Captain Graff[2]
Lieutenant Anderson
Lieutenant Morris
Mazer Rackham
Teachers at Command School - unnamed
Medic at Command School - unnamed
Observers during the final battle - unnamed
Relationship to the novel[edit]
This short story was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. Although the basic plot is the same, the novel introduces many other elements.
The novel supplies a detailed background for Ender and the interstellar conflict with the Formics; whereas the short story supplies virtually no background whatsoever. The terms "Earth" and "human" do not occur at all, and the enemy remains nameless and faceless.
In the novel, Battle School is a space station orbiting Earth, and Command School inside the asteroid Eros. In the short story, the former is a terrestrial building and the latter an orbital space station. In the novel, fighting in the battle room is with hand-held weapons, instead of lasers built into the battle room suits.
In the novel, Ender's surname changes from "Wiggins" to "Wiggin, and the name of his "teacher" changes from "Maezr" to "Mazer".
Several characters are changed: the antagonist Bonzo Madrid replaces Pol Slattery as the commander who loses to Ender during an unfair battle, while Carn Carby is written as a much more supportive character. In the short story Ender tells Bean, "How can they put you under an idiot like Carn Carby!"[3] but in the novel says "Carn Carby's a good man. I hope he recognizes you for what you're worth".
The novel's final chapter introduces the sequel Speaker for the Dead.
Publication[edit]

 

 First Meetings, published in 2002, a short story collection containing "Ender's Game"Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1977
Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories, Dial Press, 1980
The Future at War vol. 2: The Spear of Mars, Ace Books, 1980
Analog Readers' Choice, Dial Press, 1981
Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories, Dell, 1981, with an introduction by Ben Bova discussing "Ender's Game" and the "discovery" of Card.
Analog Anthology #2, Davis Publications, 1982
There Will Be War, Tor Books, 1983
Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow: Science Fiction War Stories, Bonanza Books, 1987
Maps in a Mirror, Tor Books, 1990
First Meetings, Subterranean Press, 2002
The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Prentice-Hall 2003
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Called Ender Wiggins in original Short Story. See: Card, Orson Scott (August 1977), "Ender's Game", in Bova, Ben, Analog (Norwalk, CT, United States: Dell Magazines) 97 (8), para. 1, retrieved March 22, 2012, "Ender Wiggins paused and looked over the group."
2.Jump up ^ Called Captain Graff in original Short Story. See: Card, Orson Scott (August 1977), "Ender's Game", in Bova, Ben, Analog (Norwalk, CT, United States: Dell Magazines) 97 (8), para. 45, retrieved March 22, 2012, "Captain Graff, six foot two and a little chubby, stroked his belly as he leaned back in his chair."
3.Jump up ^ Card, Orson Scott (2003). "Ender's Game". First Meetings in Ender's Universe. New York: Tor. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-7653-4798-5.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Hatrack River - the official web site of Orson Scott Card
External links[edit]
Ender's Game title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Ender's Game e-text
About the story "Ender's Game" - from Card’s website
Publication history for "Ender's Game" - from Card's website

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List of Ender's Game series short stories

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There are two sources for short stories set in the Ender's Game series. The first is the short story collection First Meetings by Orson Scott Card. This collection contains the original novelette Ender's Game plus three other stories. The second source is Card’s webzine InterGalactic Medicine Show. Starting with the first issue Card has published one new Ender story in each issue of IGMS. The first four stories from Card's webzine: "Mazer in Prison," "Pretty Boy," "Cheater," and "A Young Man with Prospects," also appear in the paperback anthology Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show.

Contents
  [hide] 1 First Meetings 1.1 "Ender's Game"
1.2 "Investment Counselor"
1.3 "The Polish Boy"
1.4 "Teacher's Pest"
2 InterGalactic Medicine Show 2.1 "Mazer in Prison"
2.2 "Pretty Boy"
2.3 "Cheater"
2.4 "A Young Man with Prospects"
2.5 "The Gold Bug"
2.6 "Ender's Stocking"
2.7 "Ender's Homecoming"
2.8 "Ender in Flight"
3 Chronological order of stories 3.1 Chronology chart
4 See also
5 External links
First Meetings[edit]
"Ender's Game"[edit]
Main article: Ender's Game (short story)
This story is the original novelette which Card published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
"Investment Counselor"[edit]
Main article: Investment Counselor
This is the story of how Ender Wiggin first meets the AI Jane and decides to become a speaker for the dead.
"The Polish Boy"[edit]
Main article: The Polish Boy
This is the story of how John Paul Wiggin (Ender's father) comes to the attention of the International Fleet as a child.
"Teacher's Pest"[edit]
Main article: Teacher's Pest
This is the story of how John Paul Wiggin first meets and falls in love with his future wife Theresa Brown.
InterGalactic Medicine Show[edit]
"Mazer in Prison"[edit]
Main article: Mazer in Prison
This story centers around Mazer Rackham, a young Hyrum Graff, and the creation of Battle School.
"Pretty Boy"[edit]
Main article: Pretty Boy (short story)
This story tells how Bonzo Madrid decided to go to Battle School after discovering that his father was having an affair.
"Cheater"[edit]
Main article: Cheater (short story)
This story tells how Han Tzu (Hot Soup) ends up getting selected to go to Battle School.
"A Young Man with Prospects"[edit]
Main article: A Young Man with Prospects
This story tells how Alessandra and her mother become colonists on a new planet after the Formic War.
"The Gold Bug"[edit]
Main article: The Gold Bug (short story)
This story tells the story of how a former soldier steps aside to allow Ender to become the governor of his planet.
"Ender's Stocking"[edit]
Main article: Ender's Stocking
This story is about Peter Wiggin and his family at Christmas time, while Ender is still in Battle School.
"Ender's Homecoming"[edit]
Main article: Ender's Homecoming
This story is about how Ender's parents and sister conspire to keep him from returning to Earth so he will be safe.
"Ender in Flight"[edit]
Main article: Ender in Flight
This story is about a power struggle between Ender and Admiral Morgan on the way to the colony where Ender is to become governor.
Chronological order of stories[edit]
"Mazer in Prison"
"The Polish Boy"
"Teacher's Pest"
"Pretty Boy"
"Cheater"
"Ender's Stocking"
"Ender's Game"
"Ender's Homecoming"
"A Young Man with Prospects"
"Ender in Flight"
"The Gold Bug"
"Investment Counselor"
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See also[edit]
List of characters in the Ender's Game series
Concepts in the Ender's Game series
List of works by Orson Scott Card
First Meetings by Orson Scott Card
InterGalactic Medicine Show: Card's webzine
External links[edit]
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Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show

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List of Ender's Game characters

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This is a partial list of characters in the Ender's Game series.

Contents
  [hide] 1 The Wiggins
2 Battle School students 2.1 Ender's Jeesh ("Crew")
2.2 Post-War Battle-School Characters
2.3 Other Battle School students
3 International Fleet personnel
4 People from Path
5 People from Lusitania
6 Pequeninos
7 People from/Colonists of Shakespeare
8 People from Ganges
9 Others
10 References
The Wiggins[edit]
Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin is the central character of the Ender quartet and a constant presence in the Bean quartet. Brought into the International Fleet's Battle School for his immense potential as a commander of soldiers, he is eventually tricked into prosecuting the war against the Formics, resulting in the almost-complete destruction of that race, and spends a good part of the remainder of his life attempting to find absolution for his unknowing act of xenocide by becoming a Speaker for the Dead.
Peter Wiggin is Ender's elder brother, rejected from Battle School for ruthless and excessive ambition. Despite showing sociopathic tendencies in his youth, he later becomes Hegemon of the free world due to his prescient and charismatic leadership, and founds the Free People of Earth, the Enderverse's first world government.
Valentine Wiggin is Ender's elder sister, being the middle child of the Wiggin family. Rejected from Battle School for her overwhelming compassion, she serves as the intermediary between the weaker Ender and the jealous Peter during the former's (brief) childhood. Later she helps Peter on his rise to power by becoming "Demosthenes," an essayist whose rabble-rousing demagoguery is contrasted strongly against Peter's statesmanlike essays as "Locke." After the end of the Formic War, she leaves with Ender on an odyssey through time and space, turning Demosthenes into a historian whose essays are considered the definitive word on whatever subject they address. After marrying on the planet Trondheim, she eventually uproots her family to follow Ender to Lusitania, where she helps to defuse the onrushing Lusitania Fleet and the impending shadow of xenocide.
John Paul Wiggin and Theresa Wiggin are Ender's parents. While Ender's Game portrays them as being dull and oblivious, despite the genius children they raised, both characters are fleshed out in later works and revealed to be more intelligent than even their children imagined. John Paul is Catholic and Theresa Mormon.
Battle School students[edit]
Main article: List of Battle School students
Ender's Jeesh ("Crew")[edit]
Ender's Jeesh is a collection of his closest friends at Battle School, particularly those who serve under him during the Third Invasion which ends in the destruction of the Formic homeworld. As chronicled in the Bean Quartet, many of them move into positions of international priority during the chaotic years after the end of the Formic War, particularly due to the machinations of Achilles de Flandres.
Alai
Julian "Bean" Delphiki
Carn Carby
Crazy Tom
Dink Meeker
Champi T'it'u (Dumper)
Fly Molo
Han Tzu (Hot Soup)
Petra Arkanian
Shen
Vlad
Post-War Battle-School Characters[edit]
Achilles de Flandres (first name pronounced "ah-sheel", in the French manner) is the main villain of the Bean quartet. Like Bean, he grew up in Rotterdam, an orphan on the streets; like Peter, he displays sociopathic tendencies, particularly by murdering anyone who has ever seen or made him helpless. During the years after the Formic War, he takes steps to begin unifying the world under his rule, causing a series of costly wars between India, China, Russia, a united Islam, and large parts of Europe and southeast Asia.
Suriyawong is a Battle School grad from Thailand who becomes Bean's friend during the wars caused by Achilles. He was known as "Surly" due to his pugilistic disposition, but during his time with Bean develops into a mature and capable commander.
Virlomi is a Battle School grad from India who is instrumental in rousting Achilles from his power base in India. As the conflicts increase, she returns to rural India to devise and encourage civil disobedience there, but begins to suffer delusions of grandeur.
Other Battle School students[edit]
Ahmed
Ambul
Anwar
William Bee
Bernard
Ducheval ("Shovel")
Filippus "Flip" Rietveld
Nikolai Delphiki
Bonzo Madrid
Talo Momoe
Zeck Morgan
Rose the Nose
Sayagi
Pol Slattery
Wu
International Fleet personnel[edit]
Main article: List of International Fleet personnel
Hyrum Graff is the principal of Battle School, and personally supervised much of Ender's training. After the war he is put on trial for his controversial actions there, but is given a position within the Hegemony as Minister of Colonization, responsible for sending humanity out to colonize the now-deserted worlds formerly held by the Formics.
Mazer Rackham is the half-Māori captain who singlehandedly stopped the Second Invasion by realizing that the Buggers are a hive mind. Due to his inability to pass on his knowledge, he was forced to spend fifty years at relativistic speeds (eight years to Rackham) so that he could train the next commander—Ender Wiggin. After the end of the war, he joins Graff's crusade to keep the human race from destroying itself.
Major Anderson was Graff's second-in-command at Battle School, generally seen in the epistolary conversations from Ender's Game attempting to moderate his superior's unorthodox training of Ender. His passion is the Battle Room; after the war's end, he accepts the post of commissioner for an American football league, and does not appear in the latter three books of either the Ender or Bean quartets.
Admiral Chamrajnagar is the ranking Admiral at Eros, the International Fleet's headquarters, during the final stages of the Formic War; he was not Polemarch during that time, and has assumed that post by the time Achilles de Flandres begins his power plays.
People from Path[edit]
Han Fei-tzu is a "godspoken" man from the planet of Path, whose treaty ended a burgeoning rebellion within the Hundred Worlds some three thousand years after Ender's Xenocide. Since then he has been retained as an advisor to Starways Congress. Han Jiang-qing is wife of Han Fei-tzu. She dies in the opening chapter of the novel.
Han Qing-jao is the daughter of Han Fei-tzu and Han Jiang-qing, also "godspoken" like her parents. When confronted with evidence that the godspoken affliction is not a sign of deitic favor but rather a genetic modification, giving her and all other godspoken both genius-level intelligence and obsessive-compulsive disorder, she is unable to cope with the truth and clings to her old traditions, becoming a tragic character. Her name means "Gloriously Bright."
Si Wang-mu is Qing-jao's "secret maid," an ambitious and extremely bright commoner whom Qing-jao takes under her wing. She is named after the Queen Mother of the West, a powerful figure in Chinese mythology. When the godspoken genes are studied in hopes of retaining the genius-level intellect but removing the OCD, it is discovered that Wang-mu has naturally mutated into such a condition, and her genes are treated as a model of what the revision is intended to do, making her rather outrageous name somewhat less ironic. Later, she accompanies the reborn Peter Wiggin on his quest to stop the destruction of Lusitania, and eventually marries him.
People from Lusitania[edit]
Joao Figueira Alvarez, known as "Pipo," (pronounced PEE-po) is the first xenologer of Lusitania, studying the "Lusitania Aborigines," though they are generally known as pequeninos (Portuguese for "Little Ones") or "piggies". He is one of the few people on the planet who treats Novinha as a real person, and becomes her beloved father-figure during her teenage years. He is the first human killed by the piggies, and his death prompts Novinha to call for a speaker for the dead.
Liberdade Graças a Deus Figueira de Medici, known as "Libo," (pronounced LEE-bo) is Pipo's son and the xenologer after his death. He is Novinha's first love, but she refuses to marry him after Pipo is killed, believing that one of her discoveries about the Descolada led to his murder and refusing to allow him marital access to those files. Unfortunately, he too is vivisected by the piggies, making her effots in vain; his apprentice, Miro, calls for a speaking of his death, which Ender performs. He is the father of Novinha's children.
Ivanova Santa Catarina von Hesse, known as "Novinha," (pronounced no-VEEN-ya) is the daughter of Lusitania's xenobiologists, who were able to inhibit the descolada before it killed the entire colony but did not manage to save themselves. Orphaned, Novinha became distant and formal until finding a sanctuary with Pipo and Libo. It is her pain and sorrow that draws Ender Wiggin to Lusitania, and the two eventually marry. Despite this, Novinha never loses her fragility and fear of losing those dearest to her.
Marcos Maria Ribeira, known as "Marcão" (pronounced mar-COW) ("Big Marcos"), is Novinha's late husband. He is known for his fearsome stature, surly temper, and habit of beating his wife, traits which earned him the epithet "cão," dog; he dies a few weeks before Ender arrives at Lusitania, of a congenital disease which caused his glands to turn to fatty tissues. Among other things, this rendered him sterile, and it is revealed during Ender's speaking of his death that none of Novinha's children are actually his, but rather Libo's; the two agreed to this form of cuckoldry before getting married.
Marcos Vladimir Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Miro," (pronounced MIE-roe) is Novinha's eldest child. He follows Libo into xenology and falls in love with Ouanda, Libo's firstborn daughter by his (actual) wife. In response to this and other factors, he attempts to cross the nerve-stimulating fence separating the piggies from the human compound, suffering brain damage and becoming crippled. He is sent out into space to greet Valentine Wiggin and her family, and later becomes a key player in the events leading up to the almost-second Xenocide.
Ekaterina Elanora Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Ela," (pronounced E-la)is Novinha's second child. Like all the females in her line, she becomes a xenobiologist, and is one of the first members of the Ribeira family to warm to Ender. Later in life, she is instrumental in the destruction of the descolada virus, and its replacement with a far-more-benign variant, the recolada.
Estevão Rei Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Quim," (Quim is pronounced KEENG. Estevão is pronounced ES-te-vowng) is Novinha's third child. He is extremely pious and at first resists Andrew Wiggin on grounds of his atheistic avocation, but later warms to the Speaker, partially for his reputation as a crusader. He later becomes the first Christian evangelist to the pequeninos and holds great respect among them, but is martyred by a particularly heretical forest who believe that the descolada is the Holy Ghost and it is the pequeninos' duty to judge all humans with it.
Lauro Suleimão Ribeira von Hesse, Novinha's fourth child, is known as "Olhado," (pronounced ol-YAH-doe) "the guy with the eyes," because a freak laser accident blinded him in his youth, requiring the implant of metal replacements. He has reduced binocular vision and depth perception but can plug a computer jack directly into one eye, to upload visual recordings. Due to the resulting ostracism, he becomes a keen observer of human nature and interaction. Later in life he becomes a brickmaker (or at least a manager of them) because, to him, family is a far more important calling than the sciences that took his relatives; nonetheless he has revolutionary ways of looking at physics and metaphysics, and is crucial in the development of faster-than-light travel (via a modified hyperspace mechanic related to philotic theory). Like Ela, he quickly warms to Ender; as he relates to Valentine in Xenocide, his greatest secret is that, while alone with Ender, they call each other "Father" and "Son".
Lembrança das Milagres de Jesus Ribeira von Hesse, called "Quara," (pronounced KWA-rah) is Novinha's fifth child. Throughout her life she exhibits stubbornness and contrariness, generally doing whatever the people who love her don't want her to do. She also becomes a xenobiologist, and assists Ela in "truncating" the descolada, despite discovering that the virus is quite possibly sentient and is certainly able to communicate with other individuals of its species.
Gerão Gregorio Ribeira von Hesse, called "Grego," (pronounced GRE-goe) is Novinha's sixth child, only six years old when Ender arrives. As a child he showed a disturbing capacity for destruction, modeled on his father's habit of domestic violence, a temper which does not subside during later years. After Quim's death, he attempts to whip a mob into a frenzy to attack the responsible forest, only to have them jump on the nearest one to hand—Human and Rooter's forest—after being chewed out by Valentine, Grego tries to end the massacre with as little bloodshed as possible, eventually placing himself between the surviving piggies and his own riot. He later collaborates with Olhado on faster-than-light travel.
Pequeninos[edit]
Main article: Pequeninos
Rooter is a piggy who plays an influential role in human-pequenino relations. He is extremely intelligent and frequently proves the wisdom of the xenologers' directive of minimal interference; he is the first piggy to be flayed alive by his tribe after the establishment of the colony of Milagre, and thus the humans' first exposure to this practice; and his "totem tree" (as the humans think of him) provides them with wisdom and direction for years to come.
Human is a pequenino who serves as a diplomat of sorts between the piggies and the humans, helping Ender Wiggin communicate with one of the wives, Shouter, and create a treaty so that both races can live together. He is the first and last piggy to be "planted" by human hands, to sign the treaty in the piggies' way. Later in life he becomes the friend and confidant of the Lusitanian Hive Queen through philotic communication; Children of the Mind implies that the two have developed romantic feelings for each other.
Planter is a lab technician who assists Ela and Quara during the years before the arrival of the Lusitania Fleet. To prove that pequeninos can be separated from the descolada without harm, he volunteers for an "experiment" in which his body is purged of the virus, which is as vital to him as oxygen; though this loses him his "third life" as a sentient fathertree, he proves that pequenino sentience is not affected by the descolada, and as such is remembered by all peoples of Lusitania as a hero and martyr.
Glass is, like Planter, a lab technician to the Lusitanian xenobiologists. He volunteers to be a guinea piggy for the recolada virus and is successfully transformed into a fathertree, proving its suitability as a non-destructive descolada replacement.
Warmaker is a fathertree who, as his name suggests, was influential during the last great war between piggy tribes. It is his forest that develops the peculiar heresy of the descolada being the Holy Ghost, and he himself kills Quim by withholding from him the medicine all humans need to keep the descolada dormant.
Arrow
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Abra is the boy who Ender was with at the end of Ender's Game, when Ender discovered the cocooned Hive Queen at the End of the World the buggers built for him. In Ender in Exile, Abra is revealed to be a bright boy of eleven years old who can fix nearly any machine. Abra is not really accepted by the children of his age because he is seen as someone who is at the level of an adult, while the adults mostly see him as a child.
People from Ganges[edit]
Randall Firth: Originally named Achilles Flanders II, Firth is the missing ninth child of Bean and Petra. Randall was born prematurely and appears to have Anton's Key turned. His mother, Nichelle Firth, also known as Randi believes Achilles is a hero assassinated by foul enemies. Nichelle allows Achilles to implant an embryo, believing that she would be carrying Achilles' child. To avoid persecution by Peter Wiggin, Randi determines to leave Earth and live in a colony, where she can raise her child and return him to Earth later to become the new Achilles. Nichelle ends up as a part of the colony Ganges led by Virlomi. Randall, called "Achilles" by Nichelle, is raised to see Peter the Hegemon and Julian Delphiki (otherwise known as Bean) as monsters, and to believe that Achilles was a true hero. Randall was one of the first to read "The Hive Queen" and treat it like a holy book, and thus he was also the first to paint Ender in a negative light, as Ender "The Xenocide". When Ender encounters Randall on Ganges, Randall plots to provoke Ender so that Ender will strike out and kill Randall. He thinks if this can be done, the universe will realize that Ender was a dangerous criminal. However, Ender does not strike out and instead tells Randall about his true mother and father: Petra Arkanian and Julian Delphiki. Randall is so enraged by this that he proceeds to brutally beat Ender, but Ender does not retaliate at all. Just before he delivers the final blow, Randall realizes that what Ender has told him is true, and he takes Ender to a doctor immediately. Randall then decides to rename himself Arkanian Delphiki, after his true parents.
Virlomi
Others[edit]
The Hive Queen is the physical embodiment of the central consciousness of the Formics.
Jane is an artificial sentience thought to exist within the ansible network by which planets communicate instantly across galactic distances and instant communication is made possible through the hundred worlds.
Anton is a scientist of European descent who discovers two genetic modifications which will allow the human brain unlimited growth, at the cost of unlimited physical growth. This discovery, Anton's Key, is named in his honor. However, research into human genetic engineering was outlawed by the international community, and when the nature of his work was discovered, he was subjected to classical conditioning to make it difficult for him to continue or even discuss his research.
Volescu is an unethical scientist of European descent, and the brother of Bean's father. He illegally modified 23 human embryos, "turning" Anton's Key within them; only one, Bean himself, was ever grown to maturity. Volescu was later discovered and had to destroy all his "research," but Bean escaped him by, at the age of 9 months, hiding himself in the tank of a toilet. Volescu was later imprisoned for his crimes.
Poke is an orphan girl from the streets of Rotterdam, the leader of a "crew" of fellow orphans who eventually take in Bean—and Achilles. Poke gave Bean his name, which he was originally unfond of, but later recognizes himself as Bean and ignores Colonel Graff, who tells Bean his true identity as Julian Delphiki. In Rotterdam, Bean, on some instinct, tells Poke to kill Achilles when she has the chance; she refuses, and Achilles later kills her, after kissing her, by stabbing her in the eye and then throwing her in the Rhine. Bean witnessed the kiss in the dark and, after leaving the scene, came to the realization that Poke was unsafe. He rushes back to find Poke already dead; Bean then blames himself for Poke's death. When Bean tells the story of Poke to Ender's jeesh on the journey to Eros, he decides to trust Petra, saying to her, "You cried for Poke, and that makes us friends."
Seargent is the second in command of Poke's crew, and later Achilles' family. He finds out Achilles killed Poke, but keeps this a secret for his, and everyone else's, protection.
Sister Carlotta is a Catholic nun who works as a recruiter for Battle School. Like Poke, she takes in both Bean and Achilles; however, her battery of psychological tests manage to identify Achilles for who he truly is. Later, when he escapes from a mental institution in Belgium and begins his reign of terror, she and Bean go undercover to oppose him, eventually linking up with Peter Wiggin. She, like Poke, meets her death at Achilles' hands; Bean is never able to forgive himself for these deaths.
Ullysses is a bully in Rotterdam. To help his family receive food from a soup kitchen, Achilles makes a point of beating up Ullysses. When he is released from a hospital he gloats about getting even with him. Ullysses is later killed by Achilles.
Stilson is a bully in Ender's Game. In the very first chapter of the book, he and three friends gang up on Ender, who decides to win, not just this fight, but all fights that might happen in the near future. Ender's counterattacks are so effective that Stilson, unbeknownst to Ender, suffers enough injury to later die in the hospital.
Descoladores are a possibly sentient species that are first presented in Children of the Mind. Little is known about them other than the fact that they communicate using genes, through a virus, known as the Descolada, and that they can use that virus to alter the genes of all life on a planet, causing mostly lethal mutations. There has been much debate as to whether the Descoladores are Ramen, or whether Xenocide needs to occur (although the end of Children of the Mind lets us to know that the protagonists have decided to be Ramen themselves, and not use the Little Doctor to kill them all). It is suspected that they created the Descolada and other viruses in order to 'terraform' (to their liking) planets such as Lusitania. Upon arriving at their home planet, a group of scientists led by Miro, Jane, Quara, and Ela broadcast the remains of the Descolada found on Lusitania. This molecule contained the genetic makeup of all life on Lusitania (including humans and Pequeninos), although they did send an earlier version of the virus that had not seen the attempts to overcome it. The Descoladores responded by transmitting a genetic molecule back that affects the same place in the brain as heroin. Differing hypotheses for this transmission included a pacification attempt by the Descoladores to sedate and capture the intruders, as well as a welcoming "hug" to a new species. This led to the belief that the Descoladores communicate by transmitting a molecule meant to be manufactured and ingested by the receiving party. Another hypothesis is that this is the way the Descoladores communicate with animals, perhaps using philotic twining to communicate amongst themselves.
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InterGalactic Medicine Show
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List of Ender's Game series organizations

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"Battle School" redirects here. For the Dad's Army episode, see Battle School (Dad's Army episode).
This is a list of organizations in the fictional Ender's Game seriesuniverse.



Contents
 [hide] 1International Fleet1.1Battle School
1.2Command School
2Post-Ender's Game2.1Governments in the Enderverse2.1.1The Hegemony
2.1.2Starways Congress
2.1.3Free People of Earth

International Fleet[edit]
The International Fleet(often shortened to I.F.or IF) is an organization created to protect Earthfrom the alienFormics. The International Fleet was formed by the governments of Earth immediately following the First Formic invasion. The Fleet was created in order to represent a united front against the Formica and mount a defense against another possible invasion. They say that if one takes one step on the planet... the human race is as good as finished.
The Fleet has two commanding officials, the Polemarch, head of the Fleet and in control of ship movements, and the Strategos, at the head of the department of strategy.
In Ender's Gameand Ender's Shadow, the responsibilities of the Fleet include the active recruitment of child leaders for Battle School. These children are taken to Battle School and molded into leaders for the International Fleet's armies in space. The Fleet implemented a system of monitors that were mounted on children's necks in order to watch their activity and determine whether they were eligible for Battle School.
Following the success of Ender Wigginand his fellow recruited commanders in destroying the Formics, the International Fleet lacked a purpose and the Polemarch attempted to take over the Fleet and take all of the members of Ender's jeesh, his battle comrades, into custody. The coup proved unsuccessful due to the efforts of the two writers working under the pseudonymsof Lockeand Demosthenesas well as jeesh member Julian "Bean" Delphiki.
Shortly after the attempted coup, the office of Strategos was abolished and former Strategos, Admiral Chamrajnagar, became the new Polemarch. The Fleet adopted a non-intervention policy on Earth except when the sovereignty of the Fleet is threatened or attacked.
The Fleet sent all of the members of Ender's jeesh to their respective countries on Earth. Politicalwriter Locke warns that the Fleet should not send Battle School grads home for fear of nationalistwars breaking out between countries with armies led by their Battle School graduates or one country attempting to kidnapand hoard all of the Battle School graduates for their own army. However, only Ender, the leader of the jeesh, was not sent home but was instead sent to colonize one of the first of the former Formic homeworlds. Following their victorious return to Earth, the members of Ender's jeesh, except for Bean, are all kidnapped by Achilles de Flandresworking for Russia. Admiral Chamrajnagar garnered most of the blame for not heeding Locke's warning. In return, the Admiral threatened to reveal the true identities of Locke and Demosthenes but later rescinded that threat.
Battle School[edit]
Battle Schoolis a military academy.
In Card's fictional future universe, humanity is at warwith an alienspeciesknown as the Formics, or, colloquially, buggers. Battle School is the training ground for the future leaders of Earth's war effort—most notably Ender Wigginand Bean. At the school, students undergo a rigorous curriculum, designed to teach military strategyand tactics. As befits an elite school, only the very best and brightest students are taken. Prospective students must undergo invasive monitoring, and a battery of tests, to see if they are suitable for the academy.
Students are generally taken to Battle School at a very young age—5 or 6 years old. The common age of "graduation" is usually 12. While at Battle School, they are taught academic subjects; especially a heavy grounding in mathematics and science, a setup for work in space. For instance, Card describes Ender as learning trigonometrywhich, in the United States, is not taught until high school.
However, the academic work is not the complete focus of Battle School. Rather, the true evaluation of the students occurs in battle simulations which are run by the school's instructors. The students are divided into 41-person armies, most named after an animal(real or mythological). They fight mock battles in null gravity, armed with harmless lasersand suits that freeze when hit with a laser shot. These battles are used to test the tactical aptitude of the students. Their performance is used to evaluate their progress. As such, the student body places a great weight on the standings in these games, a perception which is encouraged by instructors. The object of the game is supposedly to 'destroy' or freeze all the enemy soldiers and then pass through the gate from which the enemy had entered. Ender's unconventional tactics somewhat subverted this victory condition. To pass through the gate, four soldiers must touch their helmets to each corner of the enemy gate, while another victorious soldier floats through.
List of Battle School Armies.
Asp
Badger
Condor
Centipede
Dragon
Ferret
Flame
Griffin
Hound
Leopard
Manticore
Phoenix
Rabbit
Rat
Salamander
Scorpion
Spider
Squirrel
Tide
Tiger
Wave
Command School[edit]
Command Schoolis an advanced training facility that appears in Ender's Gameand is located inside the asteroid Eros. The facility is a labyrinth of winding tunnels and claustrophobic rooms, captured from the Formicsin the First Invasion.
Ender Wigginis sent to Command School prematurely, told that this was to be the place in which he would complete his training. Ender is instructed in highly advanced combat tactics by none other than Mazer Rackham, the hero of the Second Bugger War. Ender is introduced to a virtual realitygame that simulates every aspect of space combat. After quickly defeating the computer, Ender is told that he is to be pitted against Rackham. Unbeknownst to him, he is in reality commanding squadrons of starships sent from Earth years ago to launch a pre-emptive strike on the bugger homeworld.
After progressively harder and more draining "tests", Ender's team reaches the final world, with their ancient fleet against the thousands of Formic ships remaining—and all their queens. Launching a desperate, hopeless attack, Ender's forces reach the planet and launch their "Dr. Devices", which combined with the mass of the planet, causes an explosion which destroys everything—the few human ships remaining, the remaining Formic ships, and the planet itself. In the moment of victory, only then is he informed that the "game" was real, and that he just destroyed the Bugger race. Ender, already stretched beyond his limits, cannot take this news and collapses into a coma.
Ender eventually leaves Command School, and ventures to an uninhabited bugger colony to begin his life anew.
Post-Ender's Game[edit]
There are a number of organizations that appear in novels after Ender's Game.
Governments in the Enderverse[edit]
There are three primary governments in the Ender series. The first (listed in Ender's Game) is the Hegemony, a futuristic mix of 1984's Big Brother.The second is an interstellar government known as Starways Congress and American formed republic govermerment The third is a government on Earth unified under Peter Wiggin as FPE.
The Hegemony[edit]
After the events of the first invasion (circa. pre-Ender's Game), the world unified against the buggers in an alliance termed the Hegemony. It consisted of three offices: the Hegemon, Strategos, and Polemarch. However, the Hegemony only had power and influence as long as the Buggers posed a threat. After the end of the Third Invasion, the Hegemony lost influence as various power blocs on Earth began jockeying for influence and territory. For five days after Ender's final battle, the League War raged, which was finally ended by the Locke Proposal, written by Peter Wiggin.
Starways Congress[edit]
Starways Congressis the fictional interstellar government body in Speaker for the Deadand its sequels. It was established years after Ender's Xenocide in Ender's Game. It then re-established the calendar based on the founding of the Congress. Starways Congress was formed some time before the colonization of the Hundred Worlds, over a timespan from Ender in Exileto Speaker For the Dead. In the series, it is an interstellar government superpower which was formed by United States of America after they defeated the Free People of Earth in a war. It becomes the primary antagonist in the events of Speaker For the Dead. It consists of chairmen that vote on issues, like a Democracy. It ruled by controlling the ansible. Various groups (nationalities, ethnic groups, etc.) were granted permits to develop colonies and allowed to rule them according to their belief systems provided they followed the laws set by the SC.
Starways Congress rules according to the Starways Code. It is known to have the power to issue and revoke the charters of planetary governments. Starways Congress also holds some level of control over the ansiblenetwork; until the discovery of Jane, they believed their control absolute. In the novel Speaker for the Dead, Starways Congress declares the planet Lusitaniato be in rebellion, revokes their charter, and removes all documents from that planet. They also order two xenologers to travel to the nearest planet to stand trial for their crimes.
Starways Congress' core belief is in the survival of the human race. When they learn of the danger posed by the Descolada, Gobawa Ekimbo, the leader of Starways Congress, says, "I want to make sure that it's the other guys that disappear." They order the termination of the planet on the grounds that humanity's survival preempts the survival of the Pequeninos.
When Bishop Peregrino orders his flock not to speak or answer the Speaker, Ender (Andrew Wiggin) threatens to petition for the status of Inquisitor. If the planet is found guilty of religious persecution, then their Catholic-only license is revoked, which would lead to Starways Congress to ship enough people off of the planet to allow for a sudden mixing of religion and culture so that it is fair to everyone.
Another example of this ability to control the people is seen in Xenocideand Children of the Mindon the world of Path. Path is an all-Chineseworld with its own unique religion. Outsiders are not allowed in, and those who reside on the planet are not allowed to leave for fear of angering the 'Gods' and giving away their tightly held secret. Han Fei-Tzu is credited as being the only person on the planet capable of hiding the God-Speaking from outsiders, and so he is looked at as becoming the future 'God of Path', which is inferred to mean some kind of holy guardian.
Starways Congress had their hands deep in this project, having made secret genetic modifications to some people giving high intellect, but also extreme OCD-like symptoms. These people believe the Gods are speaking to them, and thus gave birth to their religion. This shows the power of Starways Congress, for they can isolate and harbor a culture such as that without allowing it to become diluted with other facets of humanity.
Free People of Earth[edit]
The Free People of Earthis a worldwide government body that appears in Shadow of the Giantand succeeding novels.
The Free People of Earth (FPE) was introduced by Peter Wiggin, Hegemon of the Earth in Shadow of the Giantin an attempt to create a world government free of war. Peter developed a Constitution of the Free People of Earth, which indicated that only democratic countries which guaranteed civil rights would be allowed in. Before a nation was to be inducted, it was required that the nation hold a plebiscitein which the people of that nation voted to join. Unlike previous international government organizations, the Free People was intended to have a strong central government to control all armed forces and foreign affairs for its members. Peter explained to Virlomi, "We'll keep the word nation, but it will come to mean what state means in America. An administrative unit, but little more."
The Free People of Earth also recognized groups that were not previously independent, especially groups that wished to separate from their parent nations.
According to Peter, the military of the Free People consist of the combined militaries of all its member nations, though at all points during the novel it suggests that each nation's military still acts separately, though usually under the control of a Battle School graduate with an affiliation with the Free People. As the novel progresses, though, more alliances between national militaries are clear, and it is apparent that they join forces later on during the conflict between China, Russia, and the Islamic world.
In the last chapter, Peter mentions that Petra Arkanianremains head of the defense department of the Free People; she is the last member of Ender's jeesh to remain on Earth.
References
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Speaker for the Deadby Orson Scott Card
Xenocideby Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mindby Orson Scott Card
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Shadow of the Giant(2005)·
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Earth Unaware(2012)·
Earth Afire(2013)·
Earth Awakens(2014)·
Shadows Alive(TBA)

 
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Original short story
"Ender's Game" (1977)

 
First Meetings(2002)
"The Polish Boy"·
"Teacher's Pest"·
"Ender's Game"·
"Investment Counselor"

 
InterGalactic Medicine Show
"Mazer in Prison"·
"Pretty Boy"·
"Cheater"·
"A Young Man with Prospects"·
"The Gold Bug"·
"Ender's Stocking"·
"Ender's Homecoming"·
"Ender in Flight"


 
Comics
Gold Bug·
Ender's Game: Battle School·
Ender's Shadow: Battle School·
Recruiting Valentine·
Ender's Game: Command School·
Ender's Shadow: Command School·
War of Gifts·
Mazer in Prison·
The League War·
Ender in Exile·
Speaker for the Dead·
Formic Wars: Burning Earth·
Formic Wars: Silent Strike

 
Film
Ender's Game

 
Video game
Ender's Game: Battle Room


 
Characters

Ender's family
Ender Wiggin·
John Paul Wiggin·
Peter Wiggin·
Theresa Wiggin·
Valentine Wiggin

 
Battle School
Alai·
Petra Arkanian·
Bean·
Ender's jeesh·
Achilles de Flandres·
Han Tzu·
Other students

 
Other
Anton·
Sister Carlotta·
Descoladores·
Fleet personnel·
Formics·
Hive Queen·
Jane·
Pequeninos·
Poke·
Han Qing-jao·
Stilson·
Volescu·
Si Wang-mu


 
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Asp (reptile)

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 European asp, Vipera aspis
"Asp" is the modern Anglicisation of the word "aspis," which in antiquity referred to any one of several venomous snake species found in the Nile region.[citation needed] It is believed that the aspis referred to in Egyptian mythology is the modern Egyptian cobra.[1]
Throughout dynastic and Roman Egypt, the asp was a symbol of royalty.[citation needed] Moreover, in both Egypt and Greece, its potent venom made it useful as a means of execution for criminals who were thought deserving of a more dignified death than that of typical executions. In some stories of Perseus, after killing Medusa, the hero used winged boots to transport her head to Mount Olympus. As he was flying over Egypt some of her blood fell to the ground, which transformed into asps.[2]
According to Plutarch (quoted by Ussher), Cleopatra tested various deadly poisons on condemned persons and animals for daily entertainment and concluded that the bite of the asp (from aspis - Egyptian Cobra, not European Asp) was the least terrible way to die; the venom brought sleepiness and heaviness without spasms of pain. The asp is perhaps most famous for its alleged role in Cleopatra's suicide[3] (some believe it to have been a horned viper),[1][4] though in 2010, German historian Christoph Schaefer and toxicologist Dietrich Mebs, after extensive study into the event, came to the conclusion that rather than enticing a venomous animal to bite her, Cleopatra actually used a mixture of hemlock, wolfsbane and opium to end her life.[5]
Nonetheless, the image of suicide-by-asp has become inexorably connected with Cleopatra, as immortalized by William Shakespeare:

With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
 Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool
 Be angry, and dispatch.
—Cleopatra, Act V, scene IIAntony and Cleopatra
Othello also famously compares his hatred for Desdemona as being full of "aspics' tongues" in Shakespeare's play Othello. (Act 3, scene iii)
See also[edit]
Snakebite
Vipera aspis
Serpent (symbolism)
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Schneemann, M.; R. Cathomas, S.T. Laidlaw, A.M. El Nahas, R.D.G. Theakston, and D.A. Warrell (August 2004). "Life-threatening envenoming by the Saharan horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) causing micro-angiopathic haemolysis, coagulopathy and acute renal failure: clinical cases and review". QJM: an International Journal of Medicine 97 (11): 717–27. doi:10.1093/qjmed/hch118. PMID 15496528. Retrieved 2009-09-04. "Whether Cleopatra used a snake as the instrument of her suicide has been long debated. Some favour the idea that she chose C. cerastes, but its venom is insufficiently potent, rapid and reliable. A more plausible candidate is the Egyptian cobra or 'asp' (Naja haje)"
2.Jump up ^ Lucan, Pharsalia, (c.61-65), trans. Robert Graves, book IX
3.Jump up ^ Crawford, Amy (April 1, 2007). "Who Was Cleopatra? Mythology, propaganda, Liz Taylor and the real Queen of the Nile". Smithsonian.com. Retrieved 4 September 2009.
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