Įnder in Exile, which is both sequel of Ender's Game and a prequel to Speaker for the Dead was released in November 2008. It is a parallel story set during Ender's first year in Battle School. Ī War of Gifts: An Ender Story, a novella, was released in October 2007. While the first novel concerned itself with armies and space warfare, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are more philosophical in nature, dealing with the difficult relationship between the humans and the 'Piggies' (or ' Pequeninos'), and Andrew's (Ender's) attempts to stop another xenocide from happening. Card first wrote Ender's Game as a novelette, but later expanded it into a novel.

The first four have been described (and released as a box set) as The Ender Quartet and, together with Ender in Exile, as The Ender Quintet. Starting with Ender's Game, five novels and one novella have been released that tell the story of Ender. The series protagonist, Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin, is one of the child soldiers trained at Battle School (and eventually Command School) to be the future leaders for the protection of Earth.Įnderverse Ender series The series is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known formally as 'Formics', but more colloquially as 'Buggers'. The first two novels in the series, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. It currently consists of sixteen novels, thirteen short stories, 47 comic issues, an audioplay, and a film. The series started with the novelette Ender's Game, which was later expanded into the novel of the same title. 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. 1985-2008 Series of six SF novels by Orson Scott Card

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