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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow.
In Ender's Game, he helps end a global war (with Valentine's reluctant assistance). In later books, he becomes Hegemon of the free world and founds the Free People of Earth, the Enderverse's first world government. Valentine Wiggin is Ender's older sister, being the middle child of the Wiggin family. Rejected from Battle School for being too ...
Children of the Mind (1996) is a novel by American author Orson Scott Card, the fourth in his successful Ender's Game series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin. This book was originally the second half of Xenocide , before it was split into two novels.
The Ender's Game series (often referred to as the Ender saga and also the Enderverse) is a series of science fiction books written by American author Orson Scott Card. The series started with the novelette Ender's Game, which was later expanded into the novel of the same title. It currently consists of sixteen novels, thirteen short stories, 47 ...
Ender's Game won the Nebula Award for best novel in 1985, [11] and the Hugo Award for best novel in 1986, [12] considered the two most prestigious awards in science fiction. [13] [14] Ender's Game was also nominated for a Locus Award in 1986. [4] In 1999, it placed No. 59 on the reader's list of Modern Library 100 Best Novels.
As humanity uses light-speed travel to establish new colonies, Ender and his sister Valentine age slowly through relativistic travel. Ender's older brother, the now-aged Hegemon of Earth, Peter Wiggin, recognizes Ender's writings in The Hive Queen, and requests Ender write for him once he dies. Ender agrees and authors The Hegemon.
In the 1985 novel Ender's Game, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, Bean, Petra Arkanian, and a group of also exceptionally talented child geniuses known as "Ender's jeesh" are recruited by an organization known as the International Fleet in order to unknowingly command fleets against an alien species to save the Earth. [10]
Ender's Game: Short story Published online. Included in Ender in Exile. "Ender's Stocking" 2007: Ender's Game: Short story Published online. The beginning of this story is included as chapter 2 in A War of Gifts: An Ender Story. A War of Gifts: An Ender Story: 2007: Ender's Game: Novel 0-7653-1282-4 "Ender's Homecoming" 2008: Ender's Game ...