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Original Title: | Ender in Exile (The Ender Quintet, #2) |
ISBN: | 0765304961 (ISBN13: 9780765304964) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Enderverse: Publication Order #11, The Enderverse #11, Ender’s Saga #1.2 , more |
Characters: | Valentine Wiggin, Peter Wiggin, Andrew Wiggin |
Orson Scott Card
Hardcover | Pages: 369 pages Rating: 3.9 | 44085 Users | 2081 Reviews
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At first, Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted down. But things were quiet now, had been quiet for a year, and it was plain to him now that they would not bring him back at all, that he was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person. At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin--called Ender by everyone--knows that he cannot live on Earth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: He is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living under the Hegemon's control, a pawn in his brother Peter's political games. Or he can join the colony ships and go out to settle one of the new worlds won in the war. The story of those years on the colony worlds has never been told...until now. The voyage was long. By the end of it, Val had finished the first volume of her history of the bugger wars and transmitted it by ansible, under Demosthenes' name, back to Earth, and Ender had won something better than the adulation of the passengers. They knew him now, and he had won their love and their respect. Ender was twelve when he chose to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies. With him went his sister, Valentine, and the core of the artificial intelligence that would become Jane. He wrote The Hive Queen and The Hegemon, and his sister wrote The Speaker for the Dead. He served as governor of his first colony world, but now Ender is on the move, looking for a planet where the hive queens might be reestablished. What he finds in the Ganges colony is more than he bargained for--a resentful governor who caused a devastating war on Earth and a brilliant young colonist who is out to destroy him, starting with his reputation and ending, perhaps, with his life.Be Specific About Out Of Books Ender in Exile (Enderverse: Publication Order #11)
Title | : | Ender in Exile (Enderverse: Publication Order #11) |
Author | : | Orson Scott Card |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 369 pages |
Published | : | November 11th 2008 by St. Martins Press-3PL |
Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy |
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First of all, Ender in Exile is not a sequel Ender's Game, that title solely belongs to Speaker For The Dead, it is a rewritten version of the last two chapters. A novel length rewrite, I must add.When the war ended, everyone at Eros went home one by one. Except for Ender. When the war ended, he had turned into a superweapon in the minds of the politicians, to be used by America against her enemies. Therefore it was in the best interest of everyone that he be made the governor of a colony. TheMy Amazon review (yeah, I was pretty pissed):Subj: Deeply alienated by Card's recent work.A disappointing, socially unimaginative flattening of a character and a world I once loved very much. This novel was rife with ideologically and spiritually conservative addresses to the reader that seemed to diverge from the far ranging and broad discourses of the other books, at least the way I read them so many years ago. I felt alienated by the Wiggins of this novel, theirs and the narrator's
Definitely not my favorite of the Ender books but still tells an interesting story. It gives an interesting look at Ender post Enders Games but while still young and not quite the adult found in Speaker for the Dead. If there is still more to come in the series, I welcome it.
Orson never fails to impress, ender in exile is a very densly packed books that tries to tie as manly loose ends up from between enders game and speaker for the dead as possible while still being an interesting and coherent story. I'd say it won on all fronts, even without being flawless. This book reads a little like a fast forward of a much longer book, the depth of detail to the alien world and the human politics within just didn't hold up to speaker for the dead standards, it left me kinda
What sets Ender in Exile apart from the the rest of the series is this: it is less than the sum of its parts.A handful of its chapters had already appeared in short story form on Card's online sci-fi zine, Intergalactic Medicine Show. These stories were interesting and self-contained in their own right. But within the context of a novel, they strike me as being Card's Tom Bombadil: incidentally enriching to the established universe, but irrelevant to the narrative at hand.The narrative at hand
I was skeptical going into this - In fact, I only read it today because it has to go back to the library soon and I didn't want to return it unread. I kept thinking that it couldn't possibly be interesting since we already know what happens. Could it really be worth reading about events that were already discussed in other Ender books? Of course, I had the same type of reservations about Ender's Shadow and ended up being wowed by that one.Ender in Exile isn't the same sort of homerun that
Card, Orson Scott. 2008. Ender in Exile.Ender in Exile is the "new direct sequel" to Ender's Game. And in a way, that's true enough. The novel begins with Ender on Eros. His brother, Peter, and sister, Valentine, are on Earth. One lobbying for his return, the other arguing that he should not be allowed to come home. At all. Ever. If Ender was sent home, so the argument goes, he'd be a pawn for governments and militaries to fight over. He'd be targeted by power-hungry individuals for the rest of
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