Ender in Exile
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| Author(s) | 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 | 455 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 Shadow of the Giant |
| Followed by | Speaker for the Dead |
Ender in Exile is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, part of the Ender's Game series, published on November 11, 2008. It is an interquel and occurs 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. The novel also concludes a story line, and makes several references to events that take place during the Shadow Saga. 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.
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[edit] Plot
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Earth Unaware |
One year after the Formics were defeated and the Battle School children have returned to Earth, Ender is still unable to go back to earth because there would be wars over which country would keep Ender to use for their own ends. Ender is offered the Governorship of the first human colony to be planted on one of the Formics' former worlds, a planet that will 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 restore the relationship with Ender that she had lost when he left to go to Battle School.
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 of the 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 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 living pupa of a Formic Hive Queen that is fertilized and prepared to make hundreds of thousands of offspring 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, 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 gigantism from. Eventually, Ender manages to convince Randall of his parents' identity by allowing Randall to brutally defeat him in a one-sided fistfight, the entire time asserting that he could never hurt his friends' child. Randall ends up changing his name to Arkanian Delphiki amidst his guilt for Ender's horrifying wounds.
After Ender heals a bit, he, Valentine, and the Hive Queen pupa board a star ship to go to a new place. [2]
[edit] 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" 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" 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" 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]
- 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]
[edit] Characters
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[edit] 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
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ 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.
[edit] External links
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Orson Scott Card |
- Publication information for Ender in Exile: Ganges available from Card’s website
- About Ender in Exile and Orson Scott Card at Tor Books
- Ender in Exile publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Orson Scott Card Spotlight
