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| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Ender's Game series |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Tor Books |
| Publication date | Nov 11, 2008 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 384 pp |
| ISBN | 0-765-30496-1 |
| OCLC Number | 223884539 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 22 |
| LC Classification | PS3553.A655 E498 2008 |
| Preceded by | Ender's Game |
| Followed by | Speaker for the Dead |
Ender in Exile is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, published on November 11, 2008. It is a Interquel and occurs in between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.[1] It could also be considered a parallel novel to the last three books in the Shadow Saga, since the entirety of these books takes place in the span of Ender in Exile. 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. Each chapter begins with an email similar to some of the IMS Short Stories.
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Plot Summary
Ender in Exile begins one year after the Formics were defeated and the Battle School children return to earth. Ender is exempted from returning as it is agreed that Ender can not go back to Earth because there could be wars over which party would keep Ender to use for their own will.
Since Ender has no way to return to Earth, he is offered the Governorship of the first colony of the Formics' former worlds, a planet that would eventually become known as Shakespeare. His sister Valentine decides to accompany Ender on his journey because she is sick of being controlled by her older brother Peter, and because she wants to rekindle the relationship she lost with her little brother Ender.
On their way to the Shakespeare colony, Valentine begins writing her History of the Bugger Wars books while Ender has an unspoken power struggle with the Captain of the ship, Admiral Quincy Morgan. Once the ship lands on Shakespeare, Ender, who had spent much of his trip learning the names and lives colony's residents, takes charge of the colony and wins the colonists over.
Ender resides as Governor for a few years in Shakespeare. Near the end of his time as governor, Ender and a young boy from the colony named Abra go to find a site for a new shipment of colonists. Ender wants the new settlement to be far enough away from the other settlements so that there will not be competition between them right away, and so they can develop separately.
In the process of finding a location for new settlement, Ender stumbles upon what seems to be the equivalent of a note from the Formics. It is a structure made to look like a game he used to play in Battle School. When Ender goes to investigate the structure, he finds the pupa of a living Formic Hive Queen that is fertilized and prepared to make hundreds of thousands of babies upon its own maturation.
The find leads Ender to write his first book as the Speaker for the Dead. It is a book titled The Hive Queen and it tries to look at the Formic wars and their eventual destruction from the point of view of the Formics. Later, Peter Wiggin, nearing the end of his life and knowing that Ender wrote the story and asks him to write one for him for when he dies. This book becomes known as The Hegemon.
After this, Ender resigns as Governor of Shakespeare and leaves the colony for another called Ganges. The leader of Ganges is Virlomi. Here he encounters Randall Firth who believes himself to be the son of Achilles de Flandres, and even refers to himself by the name Achilles.
Randall spreads propaganda accusing Ender of Xenocide in an attempt to discredit Virlomi and get revenge against Peter Wiggin, who he believes is responsible for his father's defeat. Randall tries twice to meet with Ender and discredit him somehow. On the second visit his plan is to cleverly provoke Ender into killing him so that people will see how violent and dangerous he is, but Ender does not attack.
Instead Ender tries to convince Randall that he is not Achilles' son, but that he is in fact the son of Bean and Petra; hence where he gets his giantism from. In the end, Randall believes him, though Ender is badly beaten before it concludes. Randall ends up changing his name to Arkanian Delphiki when he learns who his real father is.
After Ender heals a bit, he, Valentine, and the Hive Queen pupa board a star ship to go to a new place. [2]
Connection to short stories
The following are short stories from Card's webzine Intergalactic Medicine Show which also occur within Ender in Exile:
Ender's Homecoming
"Ender's Homecoming" is the entire Chapter 1 except the final email from Valentine to Hyrum Graff at the end is the beginning of Chapter 2. It is identical to the original short story. [3]
A Young Man with Prospects
"A Young Man with Prospects" is the entire Chapter 5 with an added email at the very beginning, describing how the Toscanos were selected to go to the colony, which wasn't in the original short story. [4]
Ender in Flight
"Ender in Flight" is very spread out throughout the book, and the email from Admiral Chamrajnagar to Admiral Quincy Morgan is missing from the book. It starts at the end of Chapter 7, it takes up all of Chapters 8-10, it continues in Chapter 13 and 14, and finishes in Chapter 16. [5]
The Gold Bug
Parts of "The Gold Bug" occur in Chapters 14, 15, and 16 of the book though some parts aren't in the book including a big part of the beginning of the short story. [6]
Character list
- Andrew "Ender" Wiggin
- John Paul Wiggin - Ender's Father
- Theresa Wiggin - Ender's Mother
- Peter Wiggin - Ender's older brother
- Valentine Wiggin - Ender's older sister
- Mazer Rackham
- Hyrum Graff
- Petra Arkanian
- Sel Menach - Acting Governor of Shakespeare Colony
- Alessandra Toscano
- Dorabella Toscano - Alessandra's Mother
- Virlomi
- Han Tzu
- Ix Tolo - Xenobiologist on Shakespeare Colony
- Po - Ix's older son
- Abra - Ix's younger son
- Vitaly Denisovitch Kolmogorov - Original Governor of Shakespeare Colony
- Arkanian Delphiki - Also known as Randal Firth or Achilles.
See also
- List of characters in the Ender's Game series
- Concepts in the Ender's Game series
- List of works by Orson Scott Card
- Orson Scott Card
References
- ^ Card's Bibliography at the hatrack.com
- ^ Card, Orson Scott. Ender in Exile. New York. Tor Books. 2008.
- ^ Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Homecoming" Intergalactic Medicine Show, January 2008.
- ^ Orson Scott Card, "A Young Man With Prospects" Intergalactic Medicine Show, February 2007.
- ^ Orson Scott Card, "Ender in Flight" Intergalactic Medicine Show, April 2008.
- ^ Orson Scott Card, "The Gold Bug" Intergalactic Medicine Show, July 2007.
External links
- Publication information for Ender in Exile: Ganges available from Card’s website
- About Ender in Exile and Orson Scott Card at Tor Books
- Preorder on amazon
- Orson Scott Card Spotlight
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