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The '''Ender's Game'' Series' (or simply 'Ender Series') is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card, started with the short story "Ender's Game", which was later expanded into the novel ''Ender's Game''. It currently consists of eight novels and one short story collection (a ninth novel is in the works). The first two novels in the series, ''Ender's Game'' and ''Speaker for the Dead'', each won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and were among the most influential science fiction novels of the 1980s. It has been referred to as the 'Enderverse'.
''Ender's Game'' 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. The year is roughly 2165 A.D.
Card went back and expanded the short story into a novel after realizing that he wanted to use Ender as a main character in another novel, ''Speaker for the Dead''. That novel takes place three thousand years after ''Ender's Game'', although due to relativistic space travel Ender himself (now using his own name, Andrew) is only 35, making him only 12 years older than he was at the end of Ender's Game. While the first novel was soft science space opera 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 attempts to stop another xenocide from happening (after the one caused by himself in the Bugger War). Currently a prequel book to ''Speaker for the Dead'', named ''Ender in Exile'', is planned on being made as well. It is said to be about Ender meeting a character from the Shadow series. A new book entitled "A War of Gifts" is scheduled to be released in October 2007. [1] It is set during Ender's first year in Battle School.
According to Card,[2]
there is no strictly preferred order of reading. The books can be read in the order they were originally written in:
★ Ender's Game
★ Speaker for the Dead
★ Xenocide
★ Children of the Mind
★ Ender's Shadow
★ Shadow of the Hegemon
★ Shadow Puppets
★ Shadow of the Giant
Alternatively, there is the chronological order of story beginnings:
★ Ender's Shadow
★ Ender's Game
★ Shadow of the Hegemon
★ Shadow Puppets
★ Shadow of the Giant
★ Speaker for the Dead
★ Xenocide
★ Children of the Mind
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 series'' (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 of world dominance after the Bugger War, in which the Battle School children, as well as Ender's brother, Peter Wiggin, are involved. Currently a sequel book to ''Shadow of the Giant'', named ''Shadows in Flight'', is planned on being made as well. It is said to finish the Enderverse as a whole and explain some unanswered questions.
The book ''First Meetings'' features the original ''Ender's Game'' short story as well as three short stories by Card set in the Ender universe:
★ "The Polish Boy" about Ender's father, John Paul Wiggin;
★ "Investment Counselor" about Jane, the artificial sentience from ''Speaker for the Dead'' and its sequels (first appeared in ''Far Horizons'');
★ "Teacher's Pest" about the first meeting of Ender's parents.
Card's new webzine, ''Intergalactic Medicine Show'' will feature a short story from the Enderverse in each issue:
★ "Mazer in Prison," a story of Mazer after winning the invasion of the buggers;
★ "Pretty Boy," the story of Bonzo Madrid;
★ "Cheater," the story about one of the other members of Ender's jeesh, Han Tzu a.k.a. Hot Soup;
★ "Gloriously Bright," the story of Han Qing-jao.
1. Orson Scott Card at Fantastic Fiction
2. "Question: What's the 'preferred' order of reading the Ender series?"
The '''Ender's Game'' Series' (or simply 'Ender Series') is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card, started with the short story "Ender's Game", which was later expanded into the novel ''Ender's Game''. It currently consists of eight novels and one short story collection (a ninth novel is in the works). The first two novels in the series, ''Ender's Game'' and ''Speaker for the Dead'', each won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and were among the most influential science fiction novels of the 1980s. It has been referred to as the 'Enderverse'.
Chronology of Enderverse stories. Numbers in brackets are year of first publication. Question marks indicate a work that has been announced but not yet published.
| Contents |
| ''Ender's Game'' |
| Sequels |
| Shadow series |
| Short stories |
| References |
''Ender's Game''
''Ender's Game'' 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. The year is roughly 2165 A.D.
Sequels
Card went back and expanded the short story into a novel after realizing that he wanted to use Ender as a main character in another novel, ''Speaker for the Dead''. That novel takes place three thousand years after ''Ender's Game'', although due to relativistic space travel Ender himself (now using his own name, Andrew) is only 35, making him only 12 years older than he was at the end of Ender's Game. While the first novel was soft science space opera 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 attempts to stop another xenocide from happening (after the one caused by himself in the Bugger War). Currently a prequel book to ''Speaker for the Dead'', named ''Ender in Exile'', is planned on being made as well. It is said to be about Ender meeting a character from the Shadow series. A new book entitled "A War of Gifts" is scheduled to be released in October 2007. [1] It is set during Ender's first year in Battle School.
According to Card,[2]
there is no strictly preferred order of reading. The books can be read in the order they were originally written in:
★ Ender's Game
★ Speaker for the Dead
★ Xenocide
★ Children of the Mind
★ Ender's Shadow
★ Shadow of the Hegemon
★ Shadow Puppets
★ Shadow of the Giant
Alternatively, there is the chronological order of story beginnings:
★ Ender's Shadow
★ Ender's Game
★ Shadow of the Hegemon
★ Shadow Puppets
★ Shadow of the Giant
★ Speaker for the Dead
★ Xenocide
★ Children of the Mind
Shadow series
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 series'' (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 of world dominance after the Bugger War, in which the Battle School children, as well as Ender's brother, Peter Wiggin, are involved. Currently a sequel book to ''Shadow of the Giant'', named ''Shadows in Flight'', is planned on being made as well. It is said to finish the Enderverse as a whole and explain some unanswered questions.
Short stories
The book ''First Meetings'' features the original ''Ender's Game'' short story as well as three short stories by Card set in the Ender universe:
★ "The Polish Boy" about Ender's father, John Paul Wiggin;
★ "Investment Counselor" about Jane, the artificial sentience from ''Speaker for the Dead'' and its sequels (first appeared in ''Far Horizons'');
★ "Teacher's Pest" about the first meeting of Ender's parents.
Card's new webzine, ''Intergalactic Medicine Show'' will feature a short story from the Enderverse in each issue:
★ "Mazer in Prison," a story of Mazer after winning the invasion of the buggers;
★ "Pretty Boy," the story of Bonzo Madrid;
★ "Cheater," the story about one of the other members of Ender's jeesh, Han Tzu a.k.a. Hot Soup;
★ "Gloriously Bright," the story of Han Qing-jao.
References
1. Orson Scott Card at Fantastic Fiction
2. "Question: What's the 'preferred' order of reading the Ender series?"
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