Ender in Exile
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Product DescriptionAfter 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. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lesso. . . More >>
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Ender in Exile
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January 4th, 2010 at 4:40 am
The third Formic War ended thanks to Andrew “Ender” Wiggins who believed he was playing a computer simulation game at Battle School instead of actually killing the Queens who gathered on a single planet. With their deaths, their soldiers, workers, and pupae died; Ender was responsible for the genocide of a race. He also killed two bullies in self defense, but the leaders of earth’s nations do not want him residing in the United States because he could become a weapon that could destroy their own country. His brother Peter wants to be the ruler of a one world government, but his sister Valentine decides to accompany her younger brother to prove her sense of freedom.
The Formic Worlds are colonized by Earthlings since they remain in a pristine state. Ender decides to go to Planet Shakespeare where he hopes to learn why the Queens gathered in one place so that they could be killed. He is to be the governor as a hero to those who remained and the new colonists. The Commander of the ship taking him to Shakespeare wants to be the power behind Ender’s government or to find a way to exile him back to earth. Ender, a thirteen years old boy with a brilliant mind prevents the coup before it begins by creating a better standard of living for the people. Ender, in his spare time, digs up Formic artifacts seeking clues to the Queens gathering.
Ender is intelligent and compassionate yet in many ways he is also tortured because of his wisdom and passion. His parents will not communicate with him and he rejects Battle School as he has to emotionally deal with real deaths he indirectly caused and not simulated gaming deaths. Less action than previous tales in the Ender saga, ENDER IN EXILE is much more cerebral as Orson Scott Card takes his fans deep into the heart and soul of a young boy forced to grow up too fast.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5 / 5
January 4th, 2010 at 7:26 am
This is the worst piece of trash I have ever read. Mr. Card needs medical attention stat. Don’t buy this book. . . it’s a waste of your money!
Rating: 1 / 5
January 4th, 2010 at 9:39 am
In some of Card’s books his characters go into pointless long meandering misdirectional thought processes that are annoying; but fortunately he left those out in this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
January 4th, 2010 at 11:08 am
If you are a fan of OSC then you have come to expect nothing short of mind indulgence in each of his books. This one is no different. Card expands further our understanding of the Enderverse. It leaves one with nothing less than anticipation for the next installment.
Rating: 5 / 5
January 4th, 2010 at 11:13 am
At the age of twelve, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin saved all of humanity by winning a game. However, it never was just a game. Ender won a war by destroying all the “buggers”. In the process, many died and young Ender must deal with the knowledge off all that has happened because of that. But often Ender’s hind-sight keeps repeating the same question: Why? Why did the buggers and their Hive Queens, knowing Ender was coming to destroy them, remain where they were and allow themselves to be killed?
Had Ender gone back to Earth he would have been used as a weapon for his country or assassinated so he could never be used as such. Therefore, Ender becomes the nominal governor of a colony. The idea was for humans to colonize all the buggers’ former worlds so that humanity’s fate would not be tied to one planet. Valentine, Ender’s sister, chooses to go with him. It is a forty year voyage by Earth’s time. For those on the ship only two years will have passed due to the relativistic effects of near-lightspeed travel. Ender’s primary hope is that he may find an answer to his question, “Why?”
**** The author, Orson Scott Card, lets readers see what happens after the war is won. The first section of the story shows why Ender has to leave and why Valentine goes too. The next section is the space travel with its share of troubles. Then comes the colony section, where Ender will find the answer to his nagging question in the form of “something” the buggers left behind. That item will give Ender the purpose his life seems to so desperately need. I make Ender’s life sound so simple; however, it is anything but. Characters enjoyed during the original book (Ender’s Game) make brief appearances and I, as the reader, am happy to see what becomes of them. The new characters are well developed and realistic. Nothing and no one came across to me as fake, though some parts of this story do seem a bit rushed to me.
Orson Scott Card is not only a masterful Science Fiction author. He is also talented at manipulating the minds of people and forcing them to do the one thing they seldom stop to do – THINK! ****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
Rating: 4 / 5