Ender's Game (Ender's Saga #1)
Winner of the Hugo and
Nebula Awards and soon to be a hollywood motion picture.
In order to develop a
secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies
breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew
"Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic
brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister
Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program
but didn't make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting
Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a
leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock
battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young
soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure
from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His
psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the
cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved
sister.
Is Ender the general Earth
needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war
with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the
perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older
siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between
the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world
survives.
Ender's Game is the winner
of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga #2)
Three thousand planet-bound
years have fled since Ender Wiggin won humanity's war with the Buggers by
totally destroying them. Ender remains young-travelling the stars at
relativistic speeds, a hundred years or more might pass while he experiences a
month-long voyage. In three thousand years, his books The Hive Queen and The
Hegemon have become holy writ, and the name of Ender anathema; he is the
Xenocide, the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings, the
only other sapient race humankind had found in all the galaxy. The only ones,
that is, until the planet called Lusitania was discovered and colonized.
On Lusitania humans found
another race of ramen ... a young race, beings just beginning to lift their
eyes to the stars and wonder what might be out there. The discovery was seen as
a gift to humanity, a chance to redeem the destruction of the Buggers. And so
the Pequininos, as they were named by the portuguese-speaking settlers, the
"Piggies," were placed off-limits to the colony. The only humans
allowed to meet them and speak with them are trained xenobiologists, and then
only two at a time. This time, there will be no tragic misunderstandings
leading to war. This time...
This time, again, men
die-bizarrely killed by the Piggies. Andrew Wiggin is called to Lusitania to
Speak the deaths of the two xenobiologists, and walks into a maelstrom of fear
and hatred. To Speak for these dead, he must first unravel the web of secrets
surrounding the lives of the Piggies and those who study them. He must Speak
not only for the dead, but for a living alien race.
Xenocide (Ender's Saga #3)
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 Starways Congress so fears the effects
of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the
destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its
way, and a second xenocide seems inevitable.
Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga #4)
With this
conclusion to his famous "Ender's Saga, " Card returns to the story
of Ender Wiggin, hero of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game,
Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is
threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many
years before. Only Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him
over 3,000 years can save the three sentient races of Lusitania.
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