The Ender Quartet Box Set by Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and it's many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Card writes with energy and conviction.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Card is a master storyteller.' - The Seattle Times 'As a maker of visions and a creator of heroes.Card is not to be outdone. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender seriesĮnder's Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind Ender's Shadow seriesĮnder's Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Children of the Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)Įarth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. Bean's desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. He knew he could not survive through strength he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else's. Bean's past was a battle just to survive.

In this new book, card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean-the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Andrew Ender Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School he was just the best of the best. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth-they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging then into an irresistible force in the high orbital facility called the Battle School.

The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The human race is at War with the Buggers, an insect-like alien race. With all the power of his original creation, Ender's Shadow is Card's parallel volume to Ender's Game, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion. Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender Quartet, with the novel that begins The Shadow Series and allows us to reenter Ender's world anew. About the Book In this new parallel novel to 'Ender's Game, ' Card tells the story of another child in the Battle School-a boy named Bean, whose past was a fight just to survive and whose mind was leagues beyond anyone else's.

The Ender Quartet Box Set by Orson Scott Card