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Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel, Speaker for the Dead (1986), both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win the two top American prizes in science fiction literature in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card is also the author of the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003).
A planet that is briefly mentioned in the short story "Investment Counselor". It is home to a woman named Jane whom Ender briefly thought may have created the computer program Jane. Albion is a name for Ancient Britain.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels, as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow. The book series itself is an expansion, with some changes to detail, of Card's 1977 short story "Ender's Game."
Jane is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender series. She is an energy based non-artificial sentient creature called an Aiúa that was placed within the ansible network by which spaceships and planets communicate instantly across galactic distances. She has appeared in the novels Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, and in a short story "Investment Counselor". Her 'face', a computer-generated hologram that she uses to talk to Ender, is described as plain and young, and it is illustrated in First Meetings as having a bun.
Several species of humans have intermittently occupied Britain for almost a million years. The Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD is conventionally regarded as the end of Prehistoric Britain and the start of recorded history in the island, although some historical information is available from before then.
Baía
A Brazilian catholic world. The nearest world to Lusitania with population pressure. They applied to Starways Congress to colonize Lusitania and did so in the year 1886 SC. In Xenocide, Grego mentions that if he had access to faster than light travel then he could go to university on Baía.
Xenocide (1991) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, the third book in the Ender's Game series. It was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel in 1992. The title is a combination of 'xeno-', meaning alien, and '-cide', referring to the act of killing; altogether referring to the act of selectively killing populations of aliens, a play on genocide.
Descoladores' home planet
The homeworld of the descoladores, discovered in Children of the Mind. Observing it from afar in an "Outside"-capable ship, the ship's riders begin to believe the inhabitants to be varelse; however, after Peter II’s “= attack” on them, they realized they need to take more time to study the descoladores. This planet is rumored to be the subject of an upcoming book, Shadows Alive.
Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth novel of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin. This book was originally the second half of Xenocide, before it was split into two novels.
Shadows Alive is a planned science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, part of his Ender's Game series. It will link the Shadow Saga back to the original Ender Series.
Divine Wind
A planet colonized and mostly inhabited by Japanese people, with a large number of tourists. It was one of humanity's first colonies and has a high influence in Starways Congress. Peter Wiggin and Wang-mu came here in Children of the Mind as part of their mission to "find the center of power among humankind" and to "persuade them to stop the [Lusitania] fleet before it needlessly destroys a world [Lusitania]". Divine Wind is the English translation of the Japanese term Shimpū Tokkōtai, more commonly known as Kamikaze.
Kamikaze, officially Tokubetsu Kōgekitai, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who initiated suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than possible with conventional air attacks. About 3,800 kamikaze pilots died during the war, and more than 7,000 naval personnel were killed by kamikaze attacks.
Earth
Earth
Due to overpopulation, some countries laws stated that each family could only have two children; during the destruction of the Formics and the subsequent colonization of their worlds, this rule was repealed. It is somewhat more advanced than present-day Earth; people are able to travel around in cars that hover over magnetic rails that go at 250km/h, for example. However, due to International Fleet rule, some nations have declined drastically. One shining example is Rotterdam, a city in the Netherlands, in which children roam the streets fighting each other for food.
The Formics, also known as Buggers, are a fictional ant-like alien species from the Ender's Game series of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card.
Rotterdam is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the second-largest Dutch city after Amsterdam, and is located in the province of South Holland, at the mouth of the Nieuwe Maas channel leading into the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte, after which people settled around it for safety. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland.
Later in the series, Earth's first true federation of nations was built by Peter Wiggin. Called the Free People of Earth (FPE), Peter Wiggin's federation led Earth to experience a golden age while he lived. Later, Starways Congress was established, with Earth as the capital and thus one of many important worlds.
In the last three books of the Ender Quartet, it is revealed that Earth still holds a place of particular importance. Many notable organizations continue to hold headquarters on Earth, such as the Vatican, numerous large corporations, and Starways Congress.
Eros
Eros (named after the real-life 433 Eros) is a wandering asteroid where Command School is situated. It was originally a Formic colony and the International Fleet lost one thousand marines capturing it. Colonel Graff says that they fought for every meter of the place. The capture, however, allows the humans to discover and utilize both artificial gravity and ansible technologies.
Spaceships approaching Eros land on one of three orbital platforms, whereupon passengers are transported to the asteroids in school bus-like spaceships and sucked through tubes in zero gravity to the main colony. Due to the Formics painting it black, its albedo becomes only slightly brighter than a black hole. Humans noted it disappearing from their monitors and sent someone to investigate, which led to a confrontation with the Formics.
In Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin is sent here to attend Command School, where he unknowingly defeats the Formics, believing he is playing a space combat simulation computer game.
A short civil war takes place on Eros after the Formics are defeated, coinciding with a civil war on Earth. Five hundred personnel are lost, and the fighting only ended when the Warsaw Pact troops were ordered to kill Ender, and they promptly refused.
Eros later becomes the staging area for early human colonies being sent out to colonize the vacant bugger colony worlds. Ender Wiggin is seen helping with the refitting of a starship docked at a newly constructed space station.
Formic's home planet
After the Second Invasion, which the humans narrowly won, the International Fleet built and sent the "Third Invasion" to their planets. In order to fight, the I.F. decides to use child commanders and pretend that it is just a fantasy simulation. After a number of grueling battles that causes three of the children to collapse, the fleet arrives at the homeworld. Mazer Rackham tells Ender that this is the final battle. Ender, tired of battling, simply decides to use the Molecular Disrupter Device to destroy the world to try to get himself kicked out of school. Apart from the cocoon Ender later found, all the Hive Queens were present at its destruction, which effectively wiped them out, until Ender revived the last Hive Queen on Lusitania.
A few years after its destruction, a warship sent as a follow-up if the main fleet commanded by Ender Wiggin failed, saw the planet's own gravity well pull its particles back towards itself, making a new, smaller planet about 80% of its original size.
Ganges
A colony planet colonized mostly by people from India. The colony was founded and governed by Virlomi, a battle school graduate. The non-Indian minority of the planet resented Virlomi's "goddess" image, including Randall Firth, son of Bean and Petra, who was raised to believe that he was Achilles de Flandres' son. The founding city in Ganges is called Andhra. The founding of this planet and Ender's activities there are included in Ender in Exile.
Lusitania
Lusitania is a world first introduced in Speaker for the Dead. Catholic by religion, Portuguese by language and culture, the planet was colonized by Brazilian settlers from Bahia, which would later convert the alien species living there to Christianity. It is named after the Roman name, in Latin, for Portugal. This planet is inhabited by all three Ramenraces – the Pequeninos, the Formics and Humans. It contains a deadly virus called the descolada that would destroy the ecosystem of any other planet if it were to spread.
The planet's only human colony was restricted in growth so as not to interfere with the Pequeninos; likewise, contact between humans and Pequeninos was forbidden except for the local researchers. The policy proved unworkable, as the Pequeninos had, early on, discovered how to circumvent the security fence of the colony and had been able to observe humans using technology, including witnessing agricultural practices and the arrival of a space-faring shuttle. The planet was also chosen by the Formic queen as a good place for re-emergence because of high levels of mineral deposits, permission from the Pequeninos to settle and a lack of human settlement, including blind spots where satellites did not observe.
Moctezuma
A Spanish planet where Ender learned to speak Spanish 2,000 years before the events of Speaker for the Dead while speaking the deaths of Zacateas and San Angelo.
Moskva
In Children of the Mind, Jane fakes evidence to make it look like Peter and Wang-mu traveled to Divine Wind on a ship from Moskva. Si Wang-Mu thinks they speak a Russian dialect when Grace talks to them about their 'home" on Moskva.
Pacifica (Lumana'i)
A planet visited by Peter Wiggin and Si Wang-Mu after their visit to Divine Wind. It has one massive ocean named The Pacific and a few smaller ones between the continents. The islands in the Pacific are inhabited by Pacific Islanders and the mainlands inhabited by minority races. Lumana'i is Samoan for "The Future".
The inhabitants of this planet are divided into two classes–normal people and the godspoken. The "godspoken" are actually genetically modified human beings with both superhuman intelligence and a crippling OCD-like disease. Any research into this disease would result in the researcher being sent off-world.
At the end of Xenocide, a newly-spawned copy of Peter Wiggin bearing Ender's aiúa shows up in the FTL starship controlled by Jane. After dropping off the retrovirus to make everyone on Path supergeniuses (minus the OCD), he takes the one person who is already in this state, Wang-mu, with him to reunite humanity as Hegemon once again.
At the end of Shadow of the Giant, it is suggested that the geneticist Volescu - responsible for Bean's genetic condition - has been, or will be, sent off to a colony. Since Volescu had previously been developing a means of changing human DNA by means of a virus - not unlike the descolada in Children of the Mind and Xenocide - it is speculated amongst fans that Volescu may have some connection with the emergence of the godspoken on Path.
Path is the English translation of the Chinese Tao (道).
Rheims
In Xenocide, Grego mentions that if he had access to faster than light travel then he could go to university on Rheims, Baía or even Earth.
Rov
Rov is said to be a planet that Ender governed. It was also where people first saw Ender with the jewel in his ear. Xenocide mentions that it had an abandoned Bugger city.
This contradicts the story told in Ender in Exile, as Ender is shown to govern Shakespeare, not Rov. Orson Scott Card has since acknowledged this discrepancy, and more recent published versions of both Ender in Exile and Ender's Game identify the planet as Shakespeare.
Shakespeare (Ender's World)
This planet is unnamed in Ender's Game but is referred to as Shakespeare in Shadow of the Giant and Ender in Exile. This planet was a bugger colony about 50 lightyears from Earth. It is the first one settled by humans. The buggers terraformed a part of the landscape to look like the dead giant from the Fantasy Game that Ender played in Battle School and hid a Hive Queen egg here.
On this planet, colonists and Ender meet and learn to communicate with formic-like creatures using thoughts and images. The remainders of the creatures indicate that they were a mix-breed that were used to perform mining activities for the formics.
Sorelledolce
Sorelledolce, meaning "sweet sisters" in Italian, is an Italian-speaking planet who is the primary setting for the short story "Investment Counselor", which is set 300 years after the events of Ender's Game. During the events, the colony's population is at four million, with one million residing in the capital city, Donnabella, meaning "beautiful woman". It was one of the few planets that Starways Congress did not control. In "Investment Counselor", Ender and his sister Valentine disembark. Ender has just turned 20 and must pay taxes on his funds. He first approaches a tax man named Benedetto, who discovers that he is Ender the Xenocide. Fortunately, Ender meets Jane, a sentient computer program, who helps him pay his taxes and stops Benedetto from blackmailing Ender. Ender and Valentine leave after ten weeks.
Trondheim
An icy planet, named after a real life Norwegian city. Trondheim is Ender's home at the beginning of Speaker for the Dead. When Ender leaves for Lusitania, Valentine stays with her husband on Trondheim. While Ender is on Trondheim, he works as a professor in a local university (discipline not given). Later on Lusitania he mentions to Ela that without the ability to row a boat, you would be as good as crippled on Trondheim.
The planet is mostly tundra and cold seas, however, the equatorial region can support human life relatively well. The chief industry appears to be fishing and hunting a local seal-like creature. The main religions are Calvinist and Lutheran Protestantism. The planet has not been settled very long, with some dwellings in the main city being modified caves.
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Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, an indirect sequel to the novel Ender's Game. The book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in Ender's Game. However, because of relativistic space travel at near light speed, Ender himself is only about 35 years old.
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers". In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, are trained from a very young age by putting them through increasingly difficult games, including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed.
Shadow Puppets is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card, published in 2002. It is the sequel to Shadow of the Hegemon and the third book in the Ender's Shadow series. It was originally to be called Shadow of Death.
Ender's Shadow (1999) is a parallel science fiction novel by the American author Orson Scott Card, taking place at the same time as the novel Ender's Game and depicting some of the same events from the point of view of Bean, a supporting character in the original novel. It was originally to be titled Urchin, but it was retitled Ender's Shadow prior to release. Ender's Shadow was shortlisted for a Locus Award in 2000.
The Ender's Game series 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, and were among the most influential fiction novels of the 1980s.
First Meetings (2002) is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Orson Scott Card, belonging to his Ender's Game series. Tor Books republished the book in 2003 under the titles First Meetings in the Enderverse and First Meetings in Ender's Universe and included the more recent "Teacher's Pest", a story about the first meeting of Ender's parents.
Shadows in Flight is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. When released in 2012, it became the tenth novel 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. A sample chapter was released on November 28, 2011. The hardcover version was released on January 17, 2012, and the paperback was released on January 29, 2013. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for science fiction.
Ender in Exile is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, part of the Ender's Game series, published on November 11, 2008. It takes place between the two award-winning novels: Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. It could also be considered a parallel novel to the first three sequels in the Shadow Saga, since the entirety of this trilogy takes place in the span of Ender in Exile. The novel concludes a dangling story line of the Shadow Saga, while it makes several references to events that take place during the Shadow Saga. From yet another perspective, the novel expands the last chapter of the original novel Ender's Game. On the one hand, it fills the gap right before the last chapter, and on the other hand, it fills the gap between the last chapter and the original (first) sequel. Ender in Exile begins one year after Ender has won the bugger war, and begins with the short story "Ender's Homecoming" from Card's webzine Intergalactic Medicine Show. Other short stories that were published elsewhere are included as chapters of the novel.
"Ender's Game" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Orson Scott Card. It first appeared in the August 1977 issue of Analog magazine and was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. Although the foundation of the Ender's Game series, the short story is not properly part of the Ender's Game universe, as there are many discrepancies in continuity.
"The Gold Bug" is a science fiction story by American writer Orson Scott Card, set in his Ender's Game universe. It tells the story of how Sel Menach steps aside as leader of a colony world to let Ender Wiggin take over as governor. It appears in Card's Webzine InterGalactic Medicine Show, and was incorporated into Card's novel Ender in Exile.
Ender's Game is a series of comic book adaptations of science fiction novels written by Orson Scott Card published by Marvel Comics that began in October 2008. However, some have been all new content, not released before in novel format. The series, like the novels they are based on, are set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known colloquially as "Buggers" but more formally as "Formics". The central character, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, is one of the child soldiers trained at Battle School to be the future leaders of the protection of Earth. The year is never specified, although the ages of the Wiggin children are specified to change throughout space, also carefully taking in the relativity of space and time.
"Gloriously Bright" is a science fiction short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, set in his Ender's Game universe. It tells the story of Han Qing-jao and Si Wang-mu as they interact with Jane, the gods of Path, the Starways Congress, and the knowledge of OCD. It appears in the January 1991 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
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