" The official name is Philotic Parallax Instantaneous Communicator ," explains Colonel Graff in Ender's Game, " but somebody dredged the name ansible out of an old book somewhere.

This book takes place around the year 5270, some 3, 000 years after the events in Ender's Game.

Like Ender's Game, the book won the Nebula Award in 1986 and the Hugo Award in 1987.

The book originated as the short story " Ender's Game ", published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

Peter, now the Hegemon of Earth, recognizes Ender's hand behind the work and requests Ender to write a book about Peter, which Ender entitles Hegemon.

* Ender Wiggin, a fictional character, also known as Andrew ' Ender ' Wiggin, and protagonist of the book Ender's Game.

It is the sequel to Shadow of the Hegemon and the third book in the Ender's Shadow series ( often called the Bean Quartet ).

Children of the Mind ( 1996 ) is the fourth book of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin.

In the science-fiction book Ender's Shadow, " Pavlovian mental bans " are also used to prevent crime.

A five-issue comic book limited series based on Ender's Shadow, called Ender's Shadow: Battle School.

The book series itself is an expansion of Card's earlier short story " Ender's Game.

Ender's Game is the first book in the series.

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.

He also wrote " Dark Deception ", a crossover story arc that appeared across X-Men: Legacy and Wolverine: Origins, and tied into X-Men: Original Sin, he retold the Beast's origin story in X-Men: Origins, wrote an Iceman story in X-Men: Manifest Destiny, a comic book adaptation of Ender's Shadow, and the Vertigo Comics series The Unwritten.

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 Sceenplay 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.

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.

" The official name is Philotic Parallax Instantaneous Communicator ," explains Colonel Graff in Ender's Game, " but somebody dredged the name ansible out of an old book somewhere ".

thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.

Bonds never tested positive in tests performed in 2003, 2004, and 2005, which may be attributable to successful obfuscation of continued use as documented in the 2006 book Game of Shadows.

By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore: it was printed in the game's instructions and even in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World's Most Popular Game by Maxine Brady.

According to David Sheff's book Game Over, Yokoi never actually intended for the console to be released in its ultimate form.

The Shadowrun role-playing game has spawned Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game, four video games, an action figure game ( Shadowrun Duels ), two magazines, an art book and more than 50 novels, starting with the Secrets of Power series which introduces some of the original characters of Shadowrun and gives a good introduction to this fictional universe.

* Paul DePodesta: A key figure in Michael Lewis ' book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game as Beane's assistant in Oakland.

He later wrote a detailed account in the book African Game Trails, where he describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met, and the flora and fauna he collected in the name of science.

Released in 1980 as an 80-page, 8 × 11 saddle-stitched book, In the Labyrinth: Game Masters ' Campaign and Adventure Guide added a role-playing system and fantasy-world background to The Fantasy Trip.

In 2008, Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson and Tim Wiles ( from the Baseball Hall of Fame ) wrote a comprehensive book on the history of the song, Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of ' Take Me Out to the Ball Game.

The game was respected by the Naval War College and serving naval officers regularly participated in games For an evaluation of the Fletcher Pratt Game versus reality see Chapter 10 of The Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame book.

* In the Song of Ice and Fire book series and its TV adaptation, Game of Thrones, a crowned stag is the sigil ( emblem ) of the House Baratheon.

In 2001 he was named as centre half-forward and captain of North Melbourne's Team of the Century and in 2008 was named as Australian football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, which was released by the League to celebrate 150 years of Australian rules football.

It was a performance that Mike Sheahan named Carey's best in the book ' The Australian Game of Football ', released in 2008.

In 2008, Carey was named as Australian Football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, and placed third in a similar list put together by a panel of football legends in The Age newspaper the same year.

* In prose he appears as the main character in Rudolf Hagelstange's book Spielball der Götter ( Game of Gods ).

Unlike many other works by King, there is little focus on the supernatural ; the only such event in the book is a telepathic vision, which forms a link to King's novel Gerald's Game ; although reviewer Sean Piccoli observed the novel otherwise contained " vintage bone-yard King: the tiny town, the secret lives.

The Game Maker's Companion ( APress, 2010 ), a book on hobbyist game development, contains step-by-step instructions on how to re-make the original Zool game using Game Maker.

In 1983, Al Alvarez published The Biggest Game in Town, a book detailing a 1981 World Series of Poker event.

* Autolycus appeared in Diana Wynne Jones ' book The Game as a very mischievous brat.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book's publication date.

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

This might be said to be an upper- or an upper-middle-class bias, but the Commission published as one of its staff studies a book by Byron S. Hollingshead entitled Who Should Go To College??

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

A careful and orderly man, who values precision and a kind of tough intellectual responsibility, might easily be put off by such a book.

The opening paragraph of the chapter titled The Theory Of Representative Perception, in the book Philosophies Of Science by Albert G. Ramsperger says, `` passed on to the brain, and there, by some unexplained process, it causes the mind to have a perception ''.

The following discussion of this subject has been adapted from the book Causes Of Catastrophe by L. Don Leet.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

A `` book count '' was the sellin' of cattle by the books, commonly resorted to in the early days, sometimes much to the profit of the seller.

In this carefree sentence he summed up the essence of the prevailin' custom of buyin' by book count, and created a sayin' which has survived through the years.

Publisher Richardson has updated the Blue Book `` but it still remains the compact reference book used by so many for those ever-changing telephone numbers, addresses, other residences, club affiliations and marriages ''.

It is connected by teletype with the State Library in Albany, which will supply any book to a system that the system itself cannot provide.

To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.