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::Ender's Shadow::

Bean, the main character in the book, is an orphan in Rotterdam. He survives on the street despite the odds against him. His brilliant mind, with capabilities way beyond those of anyone else he encounters, brings him to the attention of the Battle School. This story takes him through Bean's experiences in Battle School and shows how Bean, though seemingly peripheral in "Ender's Game" was much more important to the war, Battle School, and largely to the fate of Earth, than he seemed. The book reveals important insights and discoveries including Petra's explanation of her "betrayal" and how Dragon Army was chosen.

::Shadow of the Hegemon::

In Shadow of the Hegemon the Battle School graduates, except for Ender, return to their homes on Earth. Ender's brother Peter, acting as his online pseudonym Locke (a conscious nod to John Locke), has caused Ender to return to Earth only to pick up Valentine before leaving for another planet. Shortly after the rest of the Battle School graduates return, the members of Ender's jeesh are kidnapped to be used as strategists in an oncoming world war.

::Shadow Puppets::

Peter Wiggin, Ender's brother, is Hegemon. Accepting a tip from inside China, where the psychotic Achilles de Flandres is held prisoner, Peter rescues Achilles in transport, believing that he can spy on Achilles, take over his network, and then turn Achilles over to some country for trial.

::Shadow of the Giant::

At least one of Bean and Petra's eggs were implanted by Volescu into other people, and the eggs are believed by said people to be Achilles', not Bean's.

Meanwhile in conquered China, a belief is spreading that the current government has lost the Mandate of Heaven. Seizing upon this and with some very discreet aid from Mazer Rackham and the International Fleet, Han Tzu (known as Hot Soup by some), takes control of China, installing himself as its new Emperor. What intent he has now remains to be seen.

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Ender's Game was the winner of the Hugo Award for best novel in 1986 and the Nebula Award for best novel in 1985, the two most prestigious awards in science fiction. It was reprinted in a slightly revised edition in 1991.

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Welcome to The EnderVERSE Resource

While surfing the net for Ender's Game related-anything really, I realized that there is a paucity of OSC related sites...given the awesomeness of his writing and the amazing world he has crafted and shared with us all through the EnderVERSE.

So this site will hopefully be a ~~primer~~ comprehensive site with a glossary, character references, avatars, featured fanfic, and much more. And a place that random net heads may deem interesting (before hopefully later developing their own obsessive love for the books).

But first...a recap for those of us who are new to this amazing series.

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new! JUNE 17TH, 2005

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(All following information was obtained from Wikipedia)

The Ender Wiggin Quartet

::ENDER'S GAME::

Ender's Game (1985) is the best-known novel by Orson Scott Card. It originated as a science fiction short story in Analog magazine (1977) and is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known colloquially as "Buggers" but more formally as "Formics." Genius children are seen as the ultimate leaders of the protection of Earth and are recruited into training for an upcoming battle against the alien race. Card later expanded the novel into the Ender's Game series.

::SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD::

The title refers to the profession Ender assumes in the novel. Speakers for the Dead are the wandering representatives of a Humanist movement (not a religion, though they are treated with the respect due a priest or cleric); they research the dead person's life and give a speech that attempts to speak for them, describing the person's life as he or she lived it. Speakers for the Dead seem to have arisen as a movement in response to Ender's 'Speaking' the life of the Hive Queen in widely-read books that slowly subvert human hatred of the 'buggers' into sorrow over a Xenocide, the complete extinction of an alien race. Any citizen has the legal right to summon a Speaker to mark the death of a family member.

::XENOCIDE::

Following the events of Speaker for the Dead, we find Ender, a member of a human colony on the planet Lusitania, which is unique in human space in that it is inhabited by two other sentient species: the Pequeninos, and the Hive (transplanted to this world by Ender in part penance for his near-total destruction of their species in Ender's Game).

::CHILDREN OF THE MIND::

At the start of Children of the Mind, Jane is taking Formics, humans, and pequeninos to distant habitable planets to colonize them, but is losing her memories and concentration as a result of the vast ansible and computer network being shut down. If she is to live, she must find a way to transfer herself to a different body.

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Okay...and what of the aliens?

(well, here is the lowdown)

The Pequeninos

(Portuguese for "little ones") or piggies are a fictional alien species in the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card. Forest-dwelling, small and technologically primitive, they were discovered by human colonists on the planet of Lusitania, and given the name "piggies" because of their generally pig-like appearance.

Pequeninos first appeared (and played the most important role) in Speaker for the Dead, the second book of the series.

The Formics

The Formics share a single hive-mind directed by a queen. If the queen dies, all the Formics in the hive lose all will and intelligence and will die shortly afterwards. The Formics are able to communicate instantaneously via philotic connections; through studying the Formic technology leftover as wreckage from the Formic Wars, humans learned to harness gravity, and faster-than-light communication via the ansible which uses the same type of philotic connections that the Formics used. They live in vast underground colonies in complete darkness.

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