Ender in Exile (Ender) | 
enlarge | Author: Orson Scott Card Publisher: Tor Books Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover Pages: 384 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3 Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0765304961 Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780765304964
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After 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 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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I wanted to like it more than I did December 1, 2008 Scooter (Indiana) Huge fan of OSC and the series (esp. the "Speaker" sequence) and was excited about this book. I enjoyed reading it, but it wasn't as filling as most of his other books. At times it felt like a "who's who in the Enderverse" with references thrown in to many different story lines, which felt somewhat disjointed at times. The potential climactic ending...wasn't. However, it has it's hidden gems and interesting people. As always, great insight into the complexities of human relationships. Worth the read, but not one of the better books within the Enderverse.
Best of them yet... November 29, 2008 B. Ostler 0 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
Totally unnecessary November 29, 2008 Charles Engelke 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Card keeps adding to the Ender series, but has no stories left to tell. This book fills in gaps between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead... but we already know what happened from those books. The actual detailed description of every event is dull, and the characters have no spark here.
Ender in Exile November 28, 2008 Sharon F. Graff (Arlington Heights, IL) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sayisfying tying up of loose threads,but raises more questions. Card knows how to keep 'em coming back for more.
Deeply alienated by Card's recent work. November 26, 2008 Roy Perez (New York, NY) 7 out of 11 found this review helpful
A disappointing, socially unimaginative flattening of a character and a world I once loved very much. This novel was rife with ideologically and spiritually conservative addresses to the reader that seemed to diverge from the far ranging and broad discourses of the other books, at least the way I read them so many years ago. I felt alienated by the Wiggins of this novel, theirs and the narrator's presumptions about people's personalities and biological determinism, the absence in this world of any challenges to what seem like universally unquestioned ideas about family, gender, sexuality, social order, ethnicity and race--it's like ages of progressive thought on Earth were erased in order to create a universe where stereotypes turn out to be God's funny way of using DNA. What the narrator of this novel would have you interpret as the human individual's inability to escape her or his own genetic make-up is truly, to my eyes, an author's inability to let his characters be anything but allegories for an outmoded, oppressive conservatism at a time when authors should be offering something much, much better than an intergalactic expansion of the middle-class Anglo-Christian exceptionalism that has done so much to hurt the world. There's my elitist, queer-nerd, politically irked two cents. A dedicated reader of the Alvin, Homecoming and Ender series, as well as many stand-alone works, it pains me a little to say this will be my last Card novel for sure.
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