Ender in Exile

[Vartok]

The new Orson Scott Card book in the Ender Series came out November 11.  Right now Borders has a Fiction sale going on to buy one and get one half-price sale on the entire stock of fiction books.  Not sure if you have to be a member or not, but membership is free (unlike the other big box book store).

Story Line (don't read if you don't want to know more) - Spoiler Alert

Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel.  At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin – called Ender by everyone – is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth.  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 in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but, instead the twelve-year-old chooses 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.  The story of those years has never been told... until now.

Oh yeah!

Vartok

[Vartok]

Checked it out some more

1) membership required, signup in the store
2) get that holiday shopping early!
3) only good thru 11/18

Once you sign up, someone else almost always (99% of the time) has been there ahead of you and they keep the coupons at the front desk.

Happy reading,

Vartok

[wraith1701]

Checked it out some more

3) only good thru 11/18

Crap.  :blink   Better stop by Borders today.  Thanks for the heads-up, Vartok.

[wraith1701]

Thanks again, Vartok.  Picked up the hardcover version of Watchmen, a Hellboy prose novel, and the first book in Robert Buettner's Jason Wander series.  ;D

[Rico]

I don't understand.  I just read "Ender's Game" this past summer and the next book "Speaker for the Dead" takes place not long after that.  What time period are they talking about for this book?

[wraith1701]

I don't understand.  I just read "Ender's Game" this past summer and the next book "Speaker for the Dead" takes place not long after that.  What time period are they talking about for this book?

If I remember correctly, Speaker For The Dead takes place thousands of years after Ender's Game.  Due to the benefits of near-light-speed travel, Ender W. is in his 30's (I guess about 15 years have passed from his point of view).

[Rico]

I don't understand.  I just read "Ender's Game" this past summer and the next book "Speaker for the Dead" takes place not long after that.  What time period are they talking about for this book?

If I remember correctly, Speaker For The Dead takes place thousands of years after Ender's Game.  Due to the benefits of near-light-speed travel, Ender W. is in his 30's (I guess about 15 years have passed from his point of view).

Yeah, but it's only been a short time for Ender since he travels on the almost lightspeed ship and leaves everyone he knows behind - including Valentine. So I was confused how they could do a book about him after that and include his sister.

[wraith1701]

Beats me.. It's been a while since I read either book; my memory is foggy.  :-\  I thought that he didn't leave on his relativistic trip until he had reached adulthood, but once again; my memory is foggy.  Time for me to re-read the books I guess...

[Vartok]

Picked up a hard copy today also for half price = $26/2 + tax (and bought a Orson Card four book gift pack for full price for a holiday gift for the you teenage female in the family unit).  From the inside flyleaf (ellispsis mean I shortened it here)

"At the close of Ender's Game ... Ender ... knows that he cannot live on Earth.  He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: He is Savior of the Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earthy Hegemony.    ....  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 served as governor of his first colony world, but now Ender is on the move, looking for a planet where the hive queen might be reestablished.

No more, don't want to go beyond the last book.

Vartok

[wraith1701]

Picked up a hard copy today also for half price = $26/2 + tax (and bought a Orson Card four book gift pack for full price for a holiday gift for the you teenage female in the family unit).  From the inside flyleaf (ellispsis mean I shortened it here)

"At the close of Ender's Game ... Ender ... knows that he cannot live on Earth.  He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: He is Savior of the Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earthy Hegemony.    ....  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 served as governor of his first colony world, but now Ender is on the move, looking for a planet where the hive queen might be reestablished.

No more, don't want to go beyond the last book.

Vartok

Thanks for clearing that up!  A quick question- have you read the Ender's Shadow books?  I read somewhere they were sort of a 'side-story' to Ender's story.  How do they compare to the other books?  Are they worth checking out?

[Vartok]

I have only read the original Ender's Game, and only just realized that Orson Scott Card has a lot more books out there than I thought.  The Shadow book is one of the four in the gift box set I bought for my 17 year old, so  I will get to read it after her.  Here is the wiki on Orson - might be good reading for info and other links.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card

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