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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.
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Marvel Comics and Orson Scott Card announced on April 19, 2008 that they would be publishing a limited series adaptation of Ender's Game as the first in a comic series that would adapt all of Card's Ender's Game novels.
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.
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.
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.
As first described in Ender's Game, and later, with more detail, in Shadow of the Giant, he communicates by ansible and tells Ender what he did on Earth, both good and bad.
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.
Andrew " Ender " Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels ( Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile ), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow.
Ender's Game is the first book in the series.
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.
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.
* Ender's Game page on Card's website with link to first chapter
The first two novels in the series, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and were among the most influential science fiction novels of the 1980s.
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.
It is set during Ender's first year in Battle School.
It involves Ender's journey to the first colony, as well as his meeting a character from the Shadow saga, effectively wrapping up the final plotline of the parallel series.
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.
After Ender's victory over the Buggers, Valentine chooses to go on the first colonization ship to leave Earth.
The Park Shift, first introduced in the book Ender's Game, is a theory in which a spaceship or object traveling at the speed of light, can instantly, or near instantly, slow to a stop.
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 ).
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" A fellow squad leader, Bonzo de Madrid, furious at Ender's victories, attacks Ender with the intent to kill him.
" 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.
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.
Taking the advice of the Minister of Colonization Graff, Bean follows in Ender's footsteps, living at relativistic light-speed along with the three of his children who share his disorder, in the hope that a cure can be found for the condition, while Petra and Bean's five ' normal ' children remain on Earth.
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.
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 Ender Quartet, Ender's Shadow, and Ender series pages at Tor Books
In Ender's Game, Petra is one of the few female students at the Battle School.
In Ender's Shadow, Bean is a test-tube baby and the result of a failed eugenics experiment aimed at creating child geniuses.
She eventually marries Peter at the roots of a young Mothertree in a dual ceremony with Miro and Jane shortly after Ender's funeral.
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In Shadow of the Giant, Bean issues a request for Graff to reprogram the Mind Game to become a neutral trust holder of Ender's trust fund.
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" 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.
While Bean and Petra wait for news, Graff extends invitations to the other members of Ender's Jeesh to leave Earth and rule colonies, where they can conquer to their heart's content without causing needless wars between themselves, and instructs Bean to support Peter in forming the FPE.
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.
" 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 ".
In Shadow of the Giant, when Bean suspects Peter Wiggin of embezzling Ender's trust fund for his Hegemony uses, he recalls the nature of the Fantasy Game and requests that Graff place it in charge of Ender's trust fund.
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Speaker for the Dead ( 1986 ) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and an indirect sequel to the novel Ender's Game.
* 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.
Ender's Game ( 1985 ) is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card.
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.
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.
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.
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