Ender in Exile

Ender in Exile

Author	Orson Scott Card
Language	English
Series	Ender's Game series
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	November 11, 2008
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	455 pp
ISBN	0-7653-0496-1
OCLC	223884539
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3553.A655 E498 2008
Preceded by	Ender's Game Shadow of the Giant
Followed by	Shadows in Flight

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. 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.

Plot

One year after the Formics were defeated and the Battle School children have returned to Earth, Ender is still unable to return with them because there would be wars over which country would keep Ender to use for its 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.

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" comprises the entire first chapter of the book. Aside from the email message at the end being placed at the beginning of chapter 2, it is unchanged from the original short story.
• "A Young Man with Prospects" comprises the entire fifth chapter 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.
• "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 spans from the end of chapter 7 through the end of chapter 10, continues in chapters 13 and 14, and finishes in chapter 16.
• Parts of "The Gold Bug" occur in chapters 14, 15, and 16 of the book; some parts aren't included in the book, including a big part of the beginning of the short story.

Characters

• Andrew "Ender" Wiggin
• Valentine Wiggin - Ender's older sister, also known as "Demosthenes" Template:Nb10
• Peter Wiggin - Ender's older brother, Hegemon of the Free People of Earth, also known as "Locke"
• John Paul Wiggin - Ender's father
• Theresa Wiggin - Ender's mother
• Hyrum Graff - Minister of Colonization
• Mazer Rackham - Ender's mentor
• Petra Arkanian - Battle School graduate, wife of Julian Delphiki, (Bean.)
• Virlomi - Battle School graduate, Governor of Ganges colony

• Alessandra Toscano - a young woman
• Dorabella Toscano - Alessandra's mother
• Admiral Quincy Morgan - captain of the spaceship which brings colonists and supplies to Shakespeare
• Vitaly Denisovitch Kolmogorov - original Governor of Shakespeare colony
• Sel Menach - Chief xenobiologist and later Acting Governor of Shakespeare
• Ix Tolo - Xenobiologist on Shakespeare colony
• Po - Ix's older son
• Abra - Ix's younger son
• Arkanian Delphiki - also known as Randall Firth or Achilles, son of Petra Arkanian and Julian Delphiki ("Bean")

See also

• List of Ender's Game characters
• List of works by Orson Scott Card

References

Notes

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
• Ender in Exile title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Orson Scott Card Spotlight