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This series was really great sic-fi.
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Beyond Ender's Game: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind
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Beyond Ender Boxed Set
Contains three mass market novels from Orson Scott Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind
Speaker for the Dead :
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
Xenocide :
The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.
On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.
Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered eh destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable.
Children of the
The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.
Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.
Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves.
Contains three mass market novels from Orson Scott Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind
Speaker for the Dead :
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
Xenocide :
The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.
On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.
Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered eh destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable.
Children of the
The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.
Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.
Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves.
1408 pages, Paperback
First published October 14,2001
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1408 pages, Paperback
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October 14, 2001 by Tor Books
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9780765341921
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0765341921
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English
About the author
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Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. He is (as of 2023) the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003).
Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; his opposition to homosexuality has provoked public criticism.
Card, who is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Utah and California. While he was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), his plays were performed on stage. He served in Brazil as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and headed a community theater for two summers. Card had 27 short stories published between 1978 and 1979, and he won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1978. He earned a master's degree in English from the University of Utah in 1981 and wrote novels in science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, and historical fiction genres starting in 1979. Card continued to write prolifically, and he has published over 50 novels and 45 short stories.
Card teaches English at Southern Virginia University; he has written two books on creative writing and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest. He has taught many successful writers at his "literary boot camps". He remains a practicing member of the LDS Church and Mormon fiction writers Stephenie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson, and Dave Wolverton have cited his works as a major influence.
Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; his opposition to homosexuality has provoked public criticism.
Card, who is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Utah and California. While he was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), his plays were performed on stage. He served in Brazil as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and headed a community theater for two summers. Card had 27 short stories published between 1978 and 1979, and he won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1978. He earned a master's degree in English from the University of Utah in 1981 and wrote novels in science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, and historical fiction genres starting in 1979. Card continued to write prolifically, and he has published over 50 novels and 45 short stories.
Card teaches English at Southern Virginia University; he has written two books on creative writing and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest. He has taught many successful writers at his "literary boot camps". He remains a practicing member of the LDS Church and Mormon fiction writers Stephenie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson, and Dave Wolverton have cited his works as a major influence.
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It always ticks me off when the sequal to Ender's Game is usually shown as Ender's Shadow. That spin off of Card's was alright, but Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are my all time favorite books. THEY ARE AMAZING!!!!!
The depth of the character developments, and explinations of other worlds and alien species - I cannot even begin to put into words what an expeirience it is to read these books. Card has you thinking about so many aspects of life and where our spirits come from and where we go after death. He dives into issues of being human and what that means in the face of extermination, or even the fear of it, how far a race will go to protect themselves to keep on living.
Love these more than I could express! I hope Card keeps filling in the 3,000 year gap between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. I just can't get enough!!!!
The depth of the character developments, and explinations of other worlds and alien species - I cannot even begin to put into words what an expeirience it is to read these books. Card has you thinking about so many aspects of life and where our spirits come from and where we go after death. He dives into issues of being human and what that means in the face of extermination, or even the fear of it, how far a race will go to protect themselves to keep on living.
Love these more than I could express! I hope Card keeps filling in the 3,000 year gap between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. I just can't get enough!!!!
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Goes down a bit towards the end, but a good message and read overall
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Ha, Just found out there's like 15 books to this series and even sub series. Guess I'm going to be reading a lot of this Author..
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Orson Scott Card's Speaker of the Dead is the sequel to Ender's Game, a novel about one boy facing up to the challenge of defending the human race. in this sequel, Ender Wiggins disappears after defeating the buggers. years later, the buggers return and attack humans again. when all hope was lost, a mysterious figure calling himself the speaker of the dead appears to give insight to his people. no one knew where the voice was coming from or who it was, when in fact it was Ender, the boy who defeated the buggers once already. through his voice, he commanded his people and helped to defeat the buggers.
i liked the twists and turns of the book, for example, the return of the buggers happened 3000 years after their last encounter with the humans. Ender, who should be have died of old age, is still alive, though he is 35 years old. Ender was able to accomplish this by some sort of time traveling device that allowed him to go to the future. in this future he goes by the name Andrew, (his birth name) or his alias "the speaker of the dead". This novel brings back all the action and strategic tactics from the first, except now there is a mysterious twist to things. i recommend this book to all those Ender's Game reader's or everyone who likes strategic action.
i liked the twists and turns of the book, for example, the return of the buggers happened 3000 years after their last encounter with the humans. Ender, who should be have died of old age, is still alive, though he is 35 years old. Ender was able to accomplish this by some sort of time traveling device that allowed him to go to the future. in this future he goes by the name Andrew, (his birth name) or his alias "the speaker of the dead". This novel brings back all the action and strategic tactics from the first, except now there is a mysterious twist to things. i recommend this book to all those Ender's Game reader's or everyone who likes strategic action.
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The three sequels to Ender's Game are nothing like Ender's Game. They were okay I guess, but were more philosophical than they were about war. I was kind of bored, but I finished them because once I start a series I have to finish it.
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I really enjoy this saga. Card is a visionary.
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Great set of four covering Ender (Andrew Wiggin).
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