Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series uses the ansible as a plot device.

" 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.

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* Ender's Game, a 1985 novel with a similar premise

Speaker for the Dead ( 1986 ) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and an indirect sequel to the novel Ender's Game.

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

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

In this novel's precursor, Ender's Game, the last surviving member of ' the Buggers ' contacts the lead character ( Ender Wiggin ), who had unwittingly wiped out the rest of the species.

Its story finds Andrew in a human colony on the colony planet Lusitania, believed to be the only remaining planet in Card's universe with an intelligent alien race after the xenocide of the " Buggers " in Ender's Game.

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Although hired to direct a film adaptation of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card that was scheduled for release in 2008, he " moved on " from the project.

* Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card occurs around 2135.

* In Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series, the Starways Congress established the law that no alien culture found is to be provided with superior technology or any information about the human society in order to preserve the natural development of the culture.

* The events that set the novel Ender's Game into motion take place in 2070.

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

Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the Ender's Game series.

Card released an updated version of Ender's Game in 1991, changing some political facts to accurately reflect the times.

Ender's Game won the 1985 Nebula Award for best novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for best novel.

Ender's Game has been adapted into two comic series.

The original novelette " Ender's Game " provides a small snapshot of Ender's experiences in Battle School and Command School ; the full-length novel encompasses more of Ender's life before, during, and after the war, and also contains some chapters describing the political exploits of his older siblings back on Earth.

* Thirds, term used to refer to a third child permitted only by a special sanction of the government, in the 1985 novel Ender's Game

# Ender's Game ( 1985 )-Nebula Award winner, 1985 ; Hugo Award winner, 1986 ; Locus Award nominee, 1986

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 ).

The novel won the Nebula Award for best novel in 1985, Ender's Game was also nominated for a Locus Award in 1986.

There, teachers train them in the arts of war through increasingly difficult games including ones undertaken in zero gravity in the Battle Room where Ender's tactical genius is revealed.

He is able to lead his squad to victory and other squads are quick to add Ender's tactics to their own.

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

Peter, Ender's brother, is now Hegemon of Earth.

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.

Ender's Shadow ( 1999 ) is a parallel science fiction novel by the American author Orson Scott Card, taking place at the same time as the novel Ender's Game and depicting some of the same events from the point of view of Bean, a supporting character in the original novel.

Bean struggles to understand what quality Ender has that he does not, until he is assigned to draw up a " hypothetical " roster for Ender's army, and adds himself to the list.

This story takes the reader through Bean's experiences in Battle School and shows how he, a secondary character in Ender's Game, is much more important to the fate of Earth than it originally seemed.

Ender's Shadow is the first of a series that includes Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, and Shadows in Flight.

Xenocide ( 1991 ) is the third novel in the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card.

Discovering that Demosthenes is Valentine Wiggin, Ender's sister – but that Valentine has been on a starship en route to Lusitania for the last thirty years – Qing-Jao concludes that the only possible explanation is advanced computer software closely tied to the communication network.

Though he refers to many real events ( such as his writing of Ender's Game ), the short story is also completely fictional.

Shadow of the Hegemon ( 2001 ) is the second novel in the Ender's Shadow series ( often called the Bean Quartet ) by Orson Scott Card.

It is also the sixth novel in the Ender's Game series.

It is told mostly from the point of view of Bean, a largely peripheral character in the original novel Ender's Game.

Peter Wiggin is a fictional character in the science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels, written by Orson Scott Card.

In Ender's Game, Peter is depicted as a sadistic bully who delights in torturing animals and terrorizing his siblings, Ender and Valentine.

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.

The series is set in a part of the universe created in the novel and short story Ender's Game.