Ender in Exile (The Ender Saga, 5)

I've been a longtime fan of Orson Scott Card's Ender series (almost all of Orson's books, actually), and it was a pleasant surprise to learn that another book had been released. I've read both the Shadow series as well as the original Ender series. This book compliments both. While it is touted as a direct sequel to Ender's Game (and to some extent it is), within the author's note at the back of the book, Orson Scott Card reveals that he feels it's more a part of the Shadow series than a sequel to Ender's Game.That being said, the book really does take off almost immediately after Ender's Game. The War with the Formaics has been won, and Earth is debating as to whether or not to allow Ender to return. Peter and Valentine, Ender's brother and sister, get involved, and it's very interesting to see how they feel.The book continues by talking about the voyage that Ender and Valentine experience as they travel to Shakespeare, the settlement Ender has been sent to govern. We learn about his battles with understanding the Hive Queen and why they decided to let Ender kill them, and even find out more about Bean and Petra's lost child that is "forgotten" during the end of the Shadow series.All in all, a fantastic book. I will say that it wasn't a book, at least for me, that kept me dying to read more, but it did hold my attention. I never felt like it was too slow, but it was exciting enough that I continued through it.If you're an Ender fan, this one is definitely worth the read.

Good Reed except for occasional subplot boredomSome of the supplies are necessary, but others just add to the volume of reading

The Ender’s Game series was a beautifully and intelligently done series and I’m thankful I got to read it after all the books were released so there was no waiting. I read all five books in less than a month. I’m honestly a little nervous that any other science fiction books won’t measure up – that I won’t enjoy them as much as I enjoyed Ender’s Game – because I didn’t necessarily enjoy Ender’s Game for the science, although I did appreciate the heck out of it. Not only does OSC invent species, but he puts in the work to do so. The pequeninos have a completely unique method of reproduction and even death. The descolada have a completely unique method of communication. In fact, the pequeninos and the buggers each and also have their own means of communications, completely unheard of within the human species. DNA is a different thing in an alien species – able to adapt and change and send messages.I have heard a couple criticisms of the sci fi genre – that alien species aren’t different enough, aren’t varied enough, aren’t thought-out enough. OSC builds the crap out of his world. I buy it and I learn from it and it speaks to my human exprience – and yours I’m willing to bet. I can’t imagine that many other works of sci fi will live up to my now-high expectations. Of course that’s not fair and of course I’ll try. Especially armed with the recommendations of readers much more sci fi familiar than myself.

I read this in college and was blown away, not by anything sci-fi related (although it certainly is very well-written story), but by the moral example of multiple male characters in how to treat women well and honor chastity as an intrinsic good.I already believed in sexual integrity because my parents raised me right. But it is so rare to see it portrayed compellingly in fiction in any setting more recent than Regency Britain or more earnest and realistic than a Hallmark lite drama. As a 20-something I was genuinely _excited_ to see well-formed characters living out how I felt about virtue and true, selfless friendship with the opposite sex. It brought me to tears. It gave me further confidence to do right by women during my single years.It left such a deep impression on me that 18 years later, I have repurchased the book so that my teenage sons can read it.Orson Scott Card has depicted such championing of chastity in other works such as _Enchantment_ (the honeymoon) and _Pastwatch_ (a conversation between two scientists). Even while Card’s fiction sometimes crosses lines that I would not, when depicting misdeeds too ribaldly, you can tell it’s done ultimately with the purpose of highlighting the good by contrast. It’s one of my favorite things about his fiction.

Mr. Card is great with writing politics, wars, and histories, and he has the charm to make people believe he knows everything and everything he wrote is how the real world has worked. The successful Enderverse has long gone into the sewer, and maybe less than a handful of books in the series are actually readable. Ender's Game, of course, is a classic and wonderful; Speaker of the Dead and Ender's Shadow are equally great; Xenocide is alright and quite emotional; however, the rest of the Ender's Shadow series and Ender in Exile went south and will never come back.The first quarter of the book is filled with excitement, and many Ender's fans like me crave for more fillers between Ender's Game and Speaker of the Dead. Finally, this installment should be a proper read to tie some left over loose ends, but tying loose ends is all this book ever has done. After Ender and Val take off on the ship with Morgan, the story starts to become extremely dreadful. Then, here we come, the mother with all the plots, and the daughter so smart and so naive. The voyage to Shakespeare takes 2 years in space and 40 years or so of Earth time, and to me, as a reader, I hope I have gone to stasis.The confrontation between Achilles/Randall/Arkanian whatever his name really is and Ender during the very last few chapters of the book somewhat brings back some excitement, but all of a sudden, Achilles/Randall/Arkanian whatever his name really is believes Ender that his real father and mother are who have been accused of murdering his fake father by his surrogate mother, despite that he has beaten Ender up like a stray dog, and voila, everything goes back to be all bubbly wonderful.Back to those loose ends, the book merely provided a back story of why Ender wrote the Hive Queen and how it got distributed and believed by most living humans. During the process, Mr. Card even tried so hard to bring up some deep and cheesy conversations between characters, but they only sounded cheesy.

After waiting for this book for years, the week when it finally became available, the home budget was tight and I couldn't justify buying a new book, then as things got back to normal, I put it off and finally got around to getting it last week, and read it this week.So was it worth the wait? Well, yes and no.The "no" part came from the fact that I had already read many of the pages that came from the short stories I had already purchased and read on OSC's e-zine Intergalactic Medicine Show and part because it really lacked the typical flow of cadence in an OSC story, probably due to the fact that it seemed to be a collection of novellas rather than one story. But what do you do, when people are clamoring for a story from you nonstop? I imagine you try to make a marketable product while there is a demand for the product.So the "yes" part it ties up a lot of loose ends in the enderverse. I would have liked them to be tied with some different bows, but I was still very moved by the story lines and especially by the overall morality of the Ender stories, that family is what is worth living and dying for and the world of man owes huge debts of gratitude to those who willingly sacrifice so the rest of us aren't forced to.What I am also fascinated with, is how OSC has created such a desire in his readers to know the contents of his two imaginary books "The Hegemon and The Hive Queen". I think personally he is smart to not write them down, because how could they live up to expectations. But one wonders.So here's the deal,Ender in Exile is a book that is only for fans. If this is your first book in the series, I think you will be frustrated. However, if you read all the Shadow books before reading this I think you will enjoy it very much. I know I did.4 ¼ *I Recommend reading this first!The Ender's Shadow Series Box Set: Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant

Amazon sort of has this sequenced wrong as they show it as book 5 of 6. But in publisher's note it is called the direct sequel and they provide a proper reading order for the Ender's Game series and the Ender's Shadow series. I realized when reading Xenocide I was missing some background facts.This book covers what immediately happens after the end of the Formic wars. Covers the beginning of peace and the beginning of colonization. It's full of transition from war focus to Ender's philosophical leaning.

This book is more properly considered part of the Ender's Shadow series, rather than a sequel to Ender's Game. It is stylistically like the Shadow series, features many of the same characters, and ties up loose ends from those books.Card has found a clever way to do that, while centering the story on Ender and Valentine. Readers of Ender's Game will recall that Ender and Valentine left on the first colony ship because there were some good reasons Ender could not return to Earth. This book picks up just before that voyage begins.However, that voyage takes decades because of time dilation. So the events of the Ender's Shadow series all unfold during the voyage.That allows a different slant on those happenings, while also resolving much of what happened to Ender during that period. Ender still has some life issues to face, and this novel shows us how he faces them.I don't recommend this as anyone's introduction to the world of Ender. Read Ender's Game for sure before this. I'd also recommend at least the first couple of books of the Ender's Shadow series as prerequisites. The more of the series you've read the better you'll lke this, though I don't think you needed to read all the way through that series to enjoy this book. (By the way, it's unnecessary to read Speaker for the Dead and its sequels. They take place later in the timeline and you won't suffer any loss of enjoyment if you have not read them.)However, if you liked Ender's Game and want to know what happened to Ender as a teen in more detail, this is the story for you. And if you felt there was one major loose end at the end of Shadow of the Giant, you're right and that loose end plays into the story as well.I was pleased because the sequels to Ender's Game (Speaker for the Dead, etc.) really didn't give me a satisfying view of Ender's character. I concluded at the end of that series that Card really didn't like Ender that much, based on the life he lived in those novels. Perhaps I was mistaken, or perhaps Ender has grown on Card over the years, because the tone of Ender as a character is completely different here than in those books.There are some minor inconsistencies in this story and the other books and stories in the series. Card details these in the Afterword. The biggest conflict is with the story where the computer character Jane is introduced, which was in the collection First Meetings in Ender's Universe. For me these inconsistencies did not get in the way of the story.If you have read and liked just about any of the Ender books before, you'll definitely want to get this one to complete some disparate storylines. If you're like me, you'll read it fast. It just came today; I finished it before bedtime and felt motivated to write this review right away.

Just finished reading this book. How does this man come up with such incredible stories? Just about to start the next book. It's lucky I have a Kindle as I can get the next book in seconds. Keep them coming pleaxe.

An excellently well written book, like all of OSC's books. Unfortunately I found myself disliking Ender somewhat towards the end of the book. His treatment of his parents was rude. John-Paul and Theresa used to write to him all the time in Battle School, sure Graff never forwarded the letters but he found out after he defeated the Formics. Yet he never responded, then all of a sudden he gets upset because they stopped writing to him and therefore didn't write to them for 50 years? Lame.

Las esquinas superiores venían un poco deterioradas pero con lo que me costó encontrarlo en inglés…..

Das Buch schließt direkt an "Enders Game" an. Das zwölfjährige militärische Genie Andrew Wiggin (Ender) hat gerade die "Buggers" (auch "Formics" genannt) besiegt und gilt als Retter der Menschheit. Dennoch kann er nicht zur Erde zurückkehren, denn rasch wird klar, dass ihn auf der zerstrittenen Erde unvermeidlich eine Karriere als neuer "Napoleon" oder schlimmeres erwarten würde. Wie in der Shadow-Reihe beschrieben, bleibt es seinem älteren Bruder Peter Wiggin vorbehalten, die Menschheit politisch zu einen. Ender selbst begibt sich an Bord eines Kolonieschiffes auf eine relativistische Weltraumreise. Auch hier spielen Ambitionen auf die politische Macht in der angeflogenen Kolonie eine zentrale Rolle. Gegen seinen Willen sieht sich Ender veranlasst, in die Ereignisse einzugreifen. Dabei besteht die eigentliche Herausforderung für ihn darin, die anstehenden Probleme unblutig zu lösen.Da die Ereignisse um "Enders Shadow" innerhalb der Zeit des relativistischen Raumfluges stattfinden, ist "Ender in Exile" zugleich eine Fortsetzung der "Shadow-Reihe". Von den zwei losen Fäden, die am Ende von jener Reihe offen waren, wird einer vollständig gelöst. Der andere - nämlich das weitere Schicksal von Julian Delphiki - bleibt weiterhin offen. Ob Card sich noch einmal mit dieser interessanten Figur befassen wird oder es lieber bei einem offenen Ende belassen wird, ist schwer zu sagen. Eine Begegnung zwischen Julian und Ender irgendwo da draußen in den unendlichen Weiten von Zeit und Raum wäre zumindest reizvoll ...Alles in allem hat Card mit "Ender in Exile" DIE Fortsetzung von Enders Game geschrieben bzw. ein wichtiges Bindeglied zwischen "Enders Game" und "Speaker for the Dead" geschaffen. Es wäre auch noch Platz für weitere Bücher. Und am Ende wünscht man sich eigentlich auch, noch mehr von Ender und überhaupt das "Enderverse" zu erfahren. Fünf Sterne ohne wenn und aber. Zumal Card auf dem Teppich bleibt und ein Abgleiten ins esoterische - wie leider in "Xenocide" und "Children of Mind" geschehen - konsequent vermeidet. Sehr eindrücklich ist auch die Schilderung einer unvermeidlichen Folge relativistischer Raumflüge: Am Ende jeder Reise erfährt man jeweils von den zurückgeblieben Freunden und Verwandten, die inzwischen verstorben sind oder doch zumindest einen Großteil ihres Lebens gelebt haben, während man sich selbst kaum verändert hat. Selten ist das in der Science Fiction so menschlich nachvollziehbar erzählt worden.

Great book in the Enders universe.