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Ender's Game

Hi, thanks for visiting this page. The content is the awesome Orson Scott Card written Ender's Game. Enjoy.

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There have been seven books in the Ender's Game series so far, all written by Orson Scott Card.
The best, the first, and the one referred to most often here is Ender's Game itself, the futuristic tale of a boy named Ender Wiggin who is coerced by the planet's government into joining hundreds of other children like himself in the orbiting "Battle School" where he is trained to be a soldier in the war against the Buggers, insect-like aliens who had attempted to conquer Earth fifty years previously. I never thought a book absed entirely on the lives of kids could grip me so, but it delves further into the psyche than any other sci-fi book I've ever read and has very subtle mission statements of Card's littered throughout. A page-turner in the purest sense of the word, and it has not dated one jot.

The quality drops off dramatically from here on in, however, and only loyalty to Ender keeps one reading. The next in the series is Speaker for the Dead, set even further (thousands of years in fact) in the future than Ender's Game. Ender has become an anonymous entity, a speaker for the dead, who travels from planet to planet, giving people epitaphs. Cunningly hidden is a love story and a huge ram rod of political correctness but it's passable, if totally incomparable with Ender's Game. Xenocide is a continuation of the storyline set in Speaker for the Dead, though Ender is now much older. Where Ender's Game was a psychological, action-packed thriller, Xenocide is a mind-numbing advanced quantum physics textbook...
The last in this particular set is Children of the Mind a direct continuation of Xenocide. It follows the same broad path, and certain incidents within the book make one lose all interest in it...

A more recent series has recaptured the imagination though, however blasphemous it may well be.
I speak of course, of the Shadow Series. So far, three books in the series have been written; Ender's Shadow which is set at exactly the same time as Ender's Game, but told from Bean's perspective.
More recently, Shadow of the Hegemon was released, which begins to chart the rise of Ender's brother Peter to his position of Hegemon, political leader of the planet.
Both books are very blasphemous, hinting things such as Bean being better than Ender (which is completely wrong), but they're good fun all the same.

The third book in the "Shadow" series, entitled "Shadow Puppets" was released in hardback on August 19th 2002. The first chapter involves Bean. So do a substantial number of chapters from then on. In fact, it's one of the worst books I've ever suffered and I've lost faith in Orson Scott Card.

The series is not yet complete, and future expected titles may include Shadow of the Giant, Shadow of War, and Shadow of Death (or Shadow of the Valley of Death, depending on how OSC feels).

In any case, you're now expected to go and read all seven books, no matter how much I've put you off!