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Ender's Game Series
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 comic issues, an audioplay, and a film. The first two novels in the series, ''Ender's Game'' and ''Speaker for the Dead'', each won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. 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 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. Enderverse Ender series Starting with ''Ender's Game'', five novels and one novella have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Delphiki
''This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by to include characters from the First Formic War trilogy.'' This is a partial list of characters in the ''Ender's Game'' series. Wiggin family * Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is the protagonist of the Ender quintet and is present in the Bean quartet. He is enlisted in the International Fleet's Battle School for his strategic ability and leadership skills. He is eventually tricked into leading battles in the war against the Formics, resulting in the almost-complete destruction of that race. He spends most of his life attempting to find absolution for his unknowing act of "xenocide" by becoming a Speaker for the Dead. * is Ender's older brother. A sociopath, he takes sadistic pleasure in manipulating and brutalizing other children, especially Ender. Peter is rejected from Battle School ostensibly due to his violence, but it is later revealed that his rejection was due to Graff believing that his men would never love him as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swarm (Card And Johnston Novel)
''The Swarm'' is a 2016 science fiction novel by American writers Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, and the first book of the Second Formic Wars trilogy of novels in the ''Ender's Game'' series. It was released on August 2, 2016. Plot The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army, but China has been devastated by the Formics' initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. Earth's government has been reorganized for defense; it now comprises a Hegemon, a planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring nations in line, and a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the military forces of the planet into the new Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Awakens
''Earth Awakens'' is a science fiction novel by American writers Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, and the third book of the First Formic Wars trilogy of novels in the ''Ender's Game'' series. It was released on June 10, 2014. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for science fiction. Plot With an alien invasion in progress in China, humanity is divided on how to defend itself. The Chinese government is determined to go it alone, despite suffering catastrophic losses. Captain Wit O'Toole of the Mobile Operations Police (MOP) and Mazer Rackham have managed to destroy one of the three alien landers, but because they achieved the first significant human victory of the war without official approval and using a nuclear warhead obtained without authorization, they are in the custody of Chinese General Sima. During the invasion, Mazer Rackham saves Bingwen, a very intelligent eight-year-old Chinese boy who now comes up with a clever ploy to get them released: he spreads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Afire
''Earth Afire'' is a science fiction novel by American writers Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, and the second book of the Formic Wars novels in the ''Ender's Game'' series. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for science fiction. Plot A century before the events of ''Ender's Game'', an alien spaceship enters the Solar System and soon makes known its hostile intentions by destroying harmless human ships. Then, it wipes out a ragtag fleet of asteroid miners who have banded together in a desperate attempt to stop it. All of the adult male members of Victor Delgado's extended clan die in the battle. The survivors are unable to transmit a warning, so Victor volunteers for a near-suicidal mission to try to reach Earth in a tiny, hastily converted unmanned cargo ship. He makes it to the Moon, but is unable to get the authorities to take him seriously. Thus, humanity is totally unprepared when the First Formic War starts. The invading spaceship sends three enormous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Unaware
''Earth Unaware'' is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston in the Ender's Game series. Published in 2012, it is the first book of a prequel trilogy to ''Ender's Game''.-Official Fan site The novel is set before Ender Wiggin is born and tells the story of the first Formic War. ''Earth Afire'', the second book in the trilogy, was released on June 4, 2013, and the conclusion, ''Earth Awakens'', was released June 10, 2014. Orson Scott Card described the connection between the Ender's Game (comics) ''Formic Wars: Burning Earth'' (2011) and ''Formic Wars: Silent Strike'' (2011-2012) and the first Formic Wars trilogy as such: "Aaron Johnston scripted the Formic Wars graphic novel series (Burning Earth; Silent Strike) from Marvel Comics; now we're creating novel versions of the same story. In a novel, we have room to really flesh out the stories, the characters, the relationships, and a lot of what lies behind and around the action". Plot A family of "free ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Johnston (writer)
Aaron Johnston is an American author, comics writer, and film producer. Johnston was an associate producer on the movie ''Ender's Game'', including a cameo appearance as an International Fleet officer. He co-authored with Orson Scott Card the First Formic War trilogy, a prequel series to ''Ender's Game''. The series includes ''Earth Unaware'', ''Earth Afire'', and ''Earth Awakens.'' His second pre Ender series includes ''The Swarm'' and ''The Hive''. These are concluded with the final tales of the second Formic war relayed in ''The Queens'', setting the stage for Orson Scott Card's ''Ender's Game'' series and the third Formic war. His comic credits for Marvel Comics include ''Ender in Exile'', ''Speaker for the Dead'', ''Formic Wars'', ''League War'', and ''Mazer in Prison''. He is a writer for BYUtv's original series ''Extinct'' and provides the voice for Blue Drone in the series. His play Lifeloop is an adaptation of Orson Scott Card's short story. Johnston is a Mormon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Shadow
''The Last Shadow'' is a 2021 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, part of his ''Ender's Game'' series. It links the Shadow Saga (the parallel companion series) back to the original Ender series. This book brings the two series back together, and wraps up some of the plot threads left dangling in '' Shadow of the Giant'' (the fourth book in the Shadow Saga). The events in the book follow those in ''Children of the Mind'', the final book in the Ender series. Card has said that he began writing the first pages of the novel while quarantined during the COVID-19 pandemic. The novel was originally set to be titled '' Shadows in Flight'', but Card decided to swap titles with the fifth book in the ''Shadow'' series (released on 17 January 2012), which serves as a bridge to the final book. The concluding events of ''Shadows in Flight'' were initially planned for the first chapter of the final book, with working title ''Shadows Alive''. Plot See also * List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadows In Flight
''Shadows in Flight'' is a science fiction novella by American writer Orson Scott Card. When released in 2012, it became the twelfth book published in the ''Ender's Game'' series. The story follows on from where the original four "Shadow series" books left off. It is about Bean and his children discovering an ancient Formic " ark" during their journey in space. It was released in January of 2012. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for science fiction. Plot In 2210, the starship ''Herodotus'' left Earth. On board were Julian "Bean" Delphiki and his three infant children – Ender, Carlotta, and Cincinnatus – all of whom have Anton's Key turned. This genetic alteration, which Bean passed to his children, grants them all extremely high intelligence, but causes their bodies to grow uncontrollably, which is likely to kill them by the age of 20. Subjectively, they have been flying near light-speed for five years, but relativistic effects mean that 421 years have pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achilles De Flandres
''This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by to include characters from the First Formic War trilogy.'' This is a partial list of characters in the ''Ender's Game'' series. Wiggin family * Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is the protagonist of the Ender quintet and is present in the Bean quartet. He is enlisted in the International Fleet's Battle School for his strategic ability and leadership skills. He is eventually tricked into leading battles in the war against the Formics, resulting in the almost-complete destruction of that race. He spends most of his life attempting to find absolution for his unknowing act of "xenocide" by becoming a Speaker for the Dead. * is Ender's older brother. A sociopath, he takes sadistic pleasure in manipulating and brutalizing other children, especially Ender. Peter is rejected from Battle School ostensibly due to his violence, but it is later revealed that his rejection was due to Graff believing that his men would never love him as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wiggin
''This literature-related list is Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists#Incomplete lists, incomplete; you can help by to include characters from the First Formic War trilogy.'' This is a partial list of characters in the Ender's Game (series), ''Ender's Game'' series. Wiggin family *Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is the protagonist of the Ender quintet and is present in the Bean quartet. He is enlisted in the Space force, International Fleet's Military academy, Battle School for his strategic ability and leadership skills. He is eventually tricked into leading battles in the war against the Formics, resulting in the almost-complete destruction of that race. He spends most of his life attempting to find absolution for his unknowing act of "Genocide, xenocide" by becoming a Speaker for the Dead. * is Ender's older brother. A antisocial personality disorder, sociopath, he takes sadistic personality disorder, sadistic pleasure in manipulating and brutalizing other children, especially Ender. Peter is r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
