* Ender's Shadow references the story of Absalom and King David's lament.

In addition, the later novella A War of Gifts and novel Ender's Shadow take place during the same time period as the original.

" In 2008, the novel, along with Ender's Shadow, won the Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors an author and specific works by that author for lifetime contribution to young adult literature.

The first five-issue series, titled Ender's Game: Battle School, was written by Christopher Yost, while the second five-issue series, Ender ’ s Shadow: Battle School, was written by Mike Carey.

* Orson Scott Card, author, journalist and professor ; several of his books, including Ender's Game and Shadow Puppets feature settings in and around Greensboro.

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

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

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.

It was originally to be titled Urchin, but it was retitled Ender's Shadow prior to release.

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.

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

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However, two others have called, making Ender's trip not entirely in vain: they are Novinha's eldest son Miro, calling for someone to speak the death of Libo, who was killed the same way his father was ; and Novinha's eldest daughter Ela, calling for someone to speak the death of Novinha's husband Marcos Ribeira, who died not six weeks ago from a terminal disease.

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.

In a commentary track for the 20th Anniversary audiobook edition of the novel, as well as in the 1991 Author's Definitive Edition, Card stated that Ender's Game was written specifically to establish the character of Ender for his role of the Speaker in Speaker for the Dead, the outline for which he had written before novelizing Ender's Game.

Ender's Game was also nominated for a Locus Award in 1986.

Ender's Game: Battle Room was a planned digitally distributed video game for all viable downloadable platforms.

At first, Ender does not appear to recognize Bean's brilliance, but time shows that he was grooming Bean as his tactical support, putting him at the head of an unorthodox platoon challenged to outthink the teachers who designed the game, and defeat their attempts to tip the balance of advantages towards Ender's rivals.

The pequeninos are native to the planet, while the Hive Queen was transplanted to this world by Ender, partly in penance for his near-total destruction of her Formic species in Ender's Game.

This position was featured in Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game.

This is patently false ; as seen in Ender's Shadow, Achilles was sent away long before the Jeesh reached and assembled on Eros.

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 ).

It was not until 1999's Ender's Shadow that the term Formic was first used, fairly interchangeably with Bugger.

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.

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.

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

That novel takes place three thousand 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 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.

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

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

Its sequels, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and Ender in Exile, follow Ender's subsequent travels to many different worlds in the galaxy.

They could not communicate with the humans as war broke out, but were able to touch Ender's mind, creating the dreams he felt and preparing this place for him.

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

" Kessel reasons that Card justifies Ender's righteous rage and violence: " Ender gets to strike out at his enemies and still remain morally clean for a killer.

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.

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.

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

# Ender's Shadow ( 1999 )-Shortlisted for a Locus Award, 2000

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