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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780765304964
ISBN number: 0765304961
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: November 11, 2008
Publishing house: Tor Books
Release Date: November 11, 2008
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After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the very 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 lessons about life.
After the life-changing events of those years, these children—now teenagers—must leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world.
Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for years—where do they go now? What can they do?
Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home he’s ever known to begin a relativistic—and revelatory—journey beyond the stars.
What happened during the years between Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead? What did Ender go through from the ages of 12 through 35? The story of those years has never been told. Taking place 3000 years before Ender finally receives his chance at redemption in Speaker for the Dead, this is the long-lost story of Ender.
For twenty-three years, millions of readers have wondered and now they will receive the answers. Ender in Exile is Orson Scott Card’s moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one never forgot.
On one of these ships, there is a baby that just may share the same special gifts as Ender’s old friend Bean…
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The luck of the irish, I managed to read these books in order of their timeline. First I read Enders Game and then I read the Shadow Series of books; I then read Ender in Exile, a sequal to enders game which parallels the shadow series. The conclusion of this book leads into Speaker for the the Dead and it's sequals. For me, reading the novels in this order is the best way to keep the facts straight while not spoiling the impact and suspense of events by reading them out of order. If you read the books in the order in which released it may be confusing like walking into a Quentin Tarantino film half way through.
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Right after Ender's Game I was really excited to go and read Speaker for the Dead right after, but I was kind of disappointed to find that it came so long after Ender's Game and had very little explanation of what happens right after Ender's Game. Since then I've read that speaker was supposed to be it's own novel without Ender, but when writing the Ender's Game novel Card realized that it would work well with Ender, so he kind of just threw him in there and put a last chapter in Ender's game to lead up to Speaker.
Anyways, I feel like this fills in the blanks really well and makes an easier transition into Speaker for the Dead, and it's almost like a parallel novel like Ender's Shadow, except instead of just shadowing one book, Ender in Exile lightly shadows the entire Shadow series.
Now I can't wait for Shadow's in Flight!
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"I'm saying that when your child goes off to war, you will never get him back. Not as he was, not the same boy." These words are spoken by John Paul Wiggin, husband of Theresa and father of Andrew. They certainly ring true in speaking of any military conflict and the manner in which it affects those involved on the front and those waiting at home. In this instance, however, the possible changes are more devastating as Andrew, also known as Ender, is only 12 years old.
Having just saved the world, opposing sides are now clashing in an effort to determine what to do with the heroic and genius preteen. One side wants him to come back to Earth and endeavor to return to a normal life, while the other side knows that to do so would only bring chaos and danger. To come home would lead to pressures to fulfill a military life and make him the target of opposition assassination attempts. Should he return to Earth, or take up exile on Eros, a training facility of the Hegemony?
Ultimately, Ender chooses neither. Instead, the young man elects to make for the outer colonies. Rather than hibernate on the lengthy voyage, he chooses to remain awake and age over the course of the trip, hoping that he will grow from a confused and immature preteen into an older, wiser and more capable leader at the glorious age of 35. While he and his sister Valentine make their way through space, back home their brother, Peter, methodically undertakes a plan to assume command of the world.
ENDER IN EXILE takes place about a year after the events of ENDER'S GAME and immediately prior to those in SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD. It is an extraordinary gap in time that has left many readers of the series wondering just what happened to Ender in the years he was gone. Orson Scott Card finally delivers those answers, and he does so in fine fashion. Where this work really comes together is that if you are a longtime fan of the series, you will enjoy digging and filling in all those gaps. If you have not read any of the previous Ender books, fear not. Because Ender and company are exiled, with a bit of a connection still to the news from Earth, the story is essentially isolated from the others and thus easily accessible to all newcomers.
While it does not pack the punch of ENDER'S GAME in terms of action or philosophical questions, ENDER IN EXILE is still a sensational adventure that is bound to please those who make the choice to crack its spine.
--- Reviewed by Stephen Hubbard
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Ender is acknowledged as the victorious warrior against the notorious buggers threatening Earth in Orson Scott Card's momentous very first novel, Ender's Game. Ender in Exile is the sequel to that very first novel, revealing Ender's life-long quest to free himself of guilt in the death of Stilson, Bonzo and all the formics in the universe. But Ender clarifies this issue by stating he's not to blame for their deaths but he is responsible. Intent is not the issue but consequences are.
While Ender is attempting to reconcile his outer reputation as a savior of the earth with his killer, instinctual responses and consequences, the reader discovers the evolution of so many who touched his life and he theirs in some way during that questionable, short time span.
Colonies are being formed on all the former formic worlds and it is through the ansible email communications that we learn how Peter, Ender's brother, evolves into the Hegemon, a world leader who can wreak peace or devastating war on earth. What will he honor, knowing his own destructive, evil nature?
Hyrum Graff could retire as the engineer of the ultimately victory Ender won; instead, he has bigger plans as Minister of the Colonies now in the process of being rebuilt and shaped by humans traveling in and out of stasis to their destinies as the creators of a different world than strife-ridden Earth. Who is smarter about that process, the court-martialed, shamed Graff or Ender and what is the destiny of those affected by these plans?
Ender's sister, Val, is the single-minded relative and person who has Ender's best interests in mind and agrees to sacrifice her relationships with Peter and her parents to be a guiding force to heal Ender of the crushing burden he carries for past actions and as the very first Governor of the planet, Shakespeare. How will Val reconcile her sacrifice and Ender's resistance to her advice? Are they really opponents or is there more behind their genius plans and conversations?
What about other members of Ender's "jeesh" or battle squads, those with him and those banished before and after the final war with the Hive Queen? While he might be worshipped by many of the world, what of Bean's descendant, Achilles, who carries a twisted story of the past and is determined to wreak punishment on the one who hold's the world's highest regard? This and so much more fills Ender in Exile with a story that covers the gap between the end of the war and the Speaker for the Dead story in Orson Scott Card's brilliant science fiction series.
A brief afterworld expresses not only thanks to the countless individuals who supported and assisted Card in this huge endeavor but also offers a singular message to those to whom this story is really directed, a significant, needed and moving tribute indeed.
Ender in Exile can be read as a stand-alone novel, with enough repetition for a new reader to understand what preceded this novel. It's also an excellent prequel to Speaker for the Dead which took a huge leap beyond the past bugger war. That Orson Scott Card manages to fill this gap and at the same time create a new story within a grand series speaks of his superb skills as a writer with enough imagination and creativity to shape stories within stories, changing, maturing character perspectives and worlds interweaving present, past and future science fiction to thrill both faithful and newly found readers of every persuasion.
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal on November 16, 2008
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Enjoyed the book. It fills in many details with enders parents as well as his time after BS. Card as always can keep you turning pages, I dont think there were any major revelations and Cards end notes are very right in that it should be read at the end of the series rather than in chronological order. I cant know Cards motivation for writing EiE but it is not a cheap edition to cash in a little more with Ender.
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