The Ender Series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Orson Scott Card
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future war
- Time of Work: The near future and three thousand years later
- Setting: Earth and the Hundred Worlds planets of Lusitania and Path
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, War, Games, Aliens, space, Viruses
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
The novella version of Enders Game (1977) was Orson Scott Cards first published science-fiction story. The tale of Ender Wiggin, a child being trained to lead Earths space fleet in a war against the alien Buggers, quickly became one of the most popular Analog novellas of all time. Several years later, while Card was working on Speaker for the Dead (1986), he discovered that the novels extensive background could best be established by revising Enders Game as a novel and developing Enders character as the adult speaker. Xenocide (1991)...
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