A War of Gifts: An Ender Story Other Tales from the Ender Universe

But dink meeker, one of the older students, doesn't see it that way. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. The war over santa Claus will force everyone to make a choice. Orson scott card offers a christmas gift to his millions of fans with A War of Gifts, a short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays.

He thinks that giving gifts isn't exactly a religious observation, and on Sinterklaas Day he tucks a present into another student's shoe. This small act of rebellion sets off a battle royal between the students and the staff, but some surprising alliances form when Ender comes up against a new student, Zeck Morgan.

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Ender in Exile The Ender Quintet

With his sister valentine, he chooses to leave the only home he's ever known to begin a relativistic―and revelatory―journey beyond the stars. What happened during the years between ender's game and Speaker for the Dead? What did Ender go through from the ages of 12 through 35? The story of those years has never been told.

Taking place 3000 years before ender finally receives his chance at redemption in Speaker for the Dead, this is the long-lost story of Ender. For twenty-three years, millions of readers have wondered and now they will receive the answers. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life.

After the life-changing events of those years, these children―now teenagers―must leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world. Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for years―where do they go now? What can they do? Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin.

At battle school, strategy, they learned combat, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. After twenty-three years, orson scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender's Game. In ender's game, the world's most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school.

Ender in exile is orson scott card's moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one never forgot.


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First Meetings in Ender's Universe Other Tales from the Ender Universe

Banished from earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive--until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide. They may have found their man--or boy--in John Paul Wiggin. In "teacher's pest"-a novella written especially for this collection--a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student.

. The investment counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. Meet andrew "ender" wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game--winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories.

The polish boy" is john Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. Tor science Fiction. Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender's Game, " which first appeared in 1977.


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Shadows in Flight The Shadow Series

In time, they are forgotten--a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. Aboard it, room to grow, they will find both death and wonders--the life support that is failing on their own ship, and labs in which to explore their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship's colony.

Shadows in flight is the fifth novel in Orson Scott Card's Shadow Series. The ender universeender seriesender’s game / shadow of the giant / the hiveender novellasa war of gifts / earth awakensthe second formic war with aaron johnstonthe swarm / Xenocide / Ender in Exile / Children of the FleetEnder’s Shadow seriesEnder’s Shadow / Shadows in FlightThe First Formic War with Aaron JohnstonEarth Unaware / Children of the Mind / Shadow Puppets / Speaker for the Dead / Shadow of the Hegemon / Earth Afire / First Meetings Tor science Fiction.

Tor Books. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. But the delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come. For there in space before them lies a derelict Formic colony ship.

Ender's shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel.


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Children of the Mind The Ender Quintet

The planet lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves. Children of the mind is the fourth book in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet. The ender universeender seriesender’s game / shadow of the giant / shadows in flightchildren of the fleetthe first formic war with aaron johnstonearth unaware / shadow Puppets / Speaker for the Dead / Children of the MindEnder’s Shadow seriesEnder’s Shadow / Xenocide / Ender in Exile / Shadow of the Hegemon / Earth Afire / Earth AwakensThe Second Formic War with Aaron JohnstonThe Swarm /The HiveEnder novellasA War of Gifts /First Meetings Tor science Fiction.

Tor Books. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world. Soon jane will not be able to move the ships. Tor science Fiction. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.

Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit.


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Shadow of the Giant Shadow Saga

Tor science Fiction. Tor Books. Now he and his wife petra yearn for a safe place to build a family - something he has never known - but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies - old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps.

Tor Books. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. A war that humanity was near to losing. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else.

Bean's past was a battle just to survive. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth - they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. He served the hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth.

He civilized them, and lived to grow older. That story is told in two books, and its parallel, Orson Scott Card's beloved classic Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow. They must leave earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars. The ender universeender seriesender’s game / shadow of the hegemon / shadow puppets / the hiveender novellasa war of gifts / children of the mind / ender in exile / shadow of the Giant / Children of the FleetEnder’s Shadow seriesEnder’s Shadow / Earth AwakensThe Second Formic War with Aaron JohnstonThe Swarm / Shadows in FlightThe First Formic War with Aaron JohnstonEarth Unaware / Earth Afire / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / First Meetings Tor science Fiction.




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Shadow Puppets The Shadow Series

Peter wiggin, brother, more ruthless, Ender's older, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. Orson Scott Card. Bestselling author orson scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth and The Shadow Series. Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics.

And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth's young warriors. Tor Books. Space opera. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, and most of all, seeking territory and influence, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School.

But one person has a better idea. Military. With bean at his side, the two will reshape our future. Shadow puppets is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth. The ender universeender seriesender’s game / speaker for the dead / shadows in flightthe first formic war with aaron johnstonearth unaware / the hiveender novellasa war of Gifts / Children of the Mind / Earth Afire / Children of the FleetEnder’s Shadow seriesEnder’s Shadow / Shadow of the Giant / Shadow of the Hegemon / Ender in Exile / Earth AwakensThe Second Formic War with Aaron JohnstonThe Swarm / Xenocide / Shadow Puppets / First Meetings Tor science Fiction.

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Formic Wars Trilogy Boxed Set: Earth Unaware, Earth Afire, Earth Awakens The First Formic War

So when el cavador's telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it's hard to know what to make of it. Tor science Fiction. There are claim-jumping corporates bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt. Nearly 100 years before the events of Ender's Game. Tor. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out.

Space opera. It's massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light. But the ship has other problems. This is humanity's first contact with an alien race. Orson Scott Card. Tor Books. The family is getting too big. It's the most important thing that has happened to the human race in a million years.

Tor Books. Worrying about a distant object that might or might not be an alien ship seems…not important. They're wrong. Military.


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The Ender's Shadow Series Boxed Set: Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant The Shadow Series

Orson Scott Card. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. At battle school bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggin - perhaps his only true rival. Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now. Shadow of the hegemonthe War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors.

Peter wiggin, ender's older, brother, more ruthless, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. Nations are rising again, and most of all, seeking territory and influence, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School. But one person has a better idea.

With bean at his side, the two will reshape our future. Here is the continuing story of bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth. Shadow of the giantbean, once the smallest student at the Battle School, and Ender Wiggin's right hand, has grown to be a power on Earth.

Military. Space opera. With bean's help, he will eventually rule the world. Shadow puppetsearth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics--the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered.


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Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet

The startways congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. Military. Space opera. Tor Books. Orson Scott Card. Tor science Fiction. The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright.

On lusitania, ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Tor Books. The fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable. Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet.

The ender universeender seriesender’s game / xenocide / shadow of the hegemon / shadows in flightchildren of the fleetthe first formic war with aaron johnstonearth Unaware / Speaker for the Dead / Shadow Puppets / Ender in Exile / Shadow of the Giant / Children of the MindEnder’s Shadow seriesEnder’s Shadow / Earth Afire / Earth AwakensThe Second Formic War with Aaron JohnstonThe Swarm /The HiveEnder novellasA War of Gifts /First Meetings Tor science Fiction.

Tor. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. Tor science Fiction.


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The Ender Quartet Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind The Ender Quintet

Tor science Fiction. The starways congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. A brilliant young boy, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sister Valentine.

Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the Pequeninos require in order to become adults. Ender's gamewinner of the hugo and nebula AwardsIn order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers.

Tor science Fiction. Military. The fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable. Children of the mindthe planet lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender.


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