Had been seeking Ender's Game for a while so when this set came up I grabbed it, along with the companion second set. I am so very glad that I did! The original trilogy has been fondly revisited and I am now looking forward to the next five books.
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Had been seeking Ender's Game for a while so when this set came up I grabbed it, along with the companion second set. I am so very glad that I did! The original trilogy has been fondly revisited and I am now looking forward to the next five books.
Loved the first 4 can't wait to read the rest.
This box set contains the first 4 books in the Ender series – “Ender's Game”, “Speaker for the Dead,” “Xenocide,” and “Children of the Mind.”
“Ender's Game”
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next
attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers.
A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but
distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than
anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the
soldier-training program but didn't make the cut–young Ender is the Wiggin
drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room,
where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an
artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation,
rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear
of the alien invaders. 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.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the
genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred
years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as
long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very
different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world.
If, that is, the world survives.
“Speaker for the Dead”
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful
voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger
War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the
aliens' ways are strange and frightening…again, humans die. And it is only the
Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage
to confront the mystery…and the truth.
“Xenocide”
The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a
child named Gloriously Bright.
On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and Pequeninos and the Hive Queen
could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could
find common ground at last. 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. 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. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable.
“Children of the Mind”
The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large
colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. 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. 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. Ender's children must save her if
they are to save themselves.
REVIEWS
“Card's prose is powerful here, as is his consideration of mystical and
quasi-religious themes. Though billed as the final Ender novel, this story
leaves enough mysteries unexplored to justify another entry; and Card fans
should find that possibility, like this novel, very welcome indeed."
–Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Children of the Mind
“Orson Scott Card made a strong case for being the best writer science
fiction has to offer.”
–The Houston Post on Xenocide
“There aren't too many recent sf novels we can confidently call truly moral works, but Speaker for the Dead is one. It's a completely gripping story.” -The Toronto Star
“This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers–a major SF novel by any reasonable standard.” –Booklist on Ender’s Game
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