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.

Ender's Game ( 1985 ) is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card.

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.

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.

The novel has received negative criticism for violence and for the way Card justifies Ender's violence.

Ender's Game has been translated into 28 languages:

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.

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.

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.

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 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 ).

Colonel Graff has the Mind Game reprogrammed to accurately predict financial markets and turns it loose over the ansible network ; it continues to invest Ender's pension and eventually evolves into the artificial intelligence known as Jane.

When Ender shows up in Speaker for the Dead, some 3000 years after the events of Ender's Game, he is departing a planet where his sister Valentine has found a husband.

Ender's journey starts out on Eros, after he defeated the Formics, and after Peter, under the alias of Locke, has quelled the warring nations into a temporary truce.

Ender has a battle of wills throughout the voyage with Admiral Morgan, who attempts to usurp Ender's lawful position as Governor of Shakespeare, believing Ender to be a foolish child no one would follow.

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 ").

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.

Despite sharing the family name Han, Card has stated that she is not related to the character Han Tzu from Ender's Game.

At the time the Hierarchy is proposed, each planet in the Ender's Game Universe ( other than Earth ) has been colonized by a single terrestrial culture or nation, making humans from other planets " framlings.

In the afterword of Ender in Exile, Card stated that many of the details in chapter 15 of Ender's Game have been modified for use in the subsequent novels and short stories.

After the IF removes Ender's monitoring device, possibly ending his chances of getting into Command School, he gets into a fight with a fellow student, Stilson.

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 ).

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.

The series started with the novelette " Ender's Game ", which was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game.

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.

In the novel Ender's Game, a child soldier named Ender Wiggin is conscripted into a Battle School for gifted youths.

Through this process, Ender's stepdaughter Ela consciously created the " Recolada ," a replacement for the Descolada virus that would both allow the Pequeninos to transform into adults and no longer harm the Formics or Humans.