First Meetings in Ender's Universe

First Meetings in Ender's Universe
by Orson Scott Card

First Meetings in Ender's Universe
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Author: Orson Scott Card
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-01
ISBN: 0765347989
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Tor Teen
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  • ISBN13: 9780765347985
  • Condition: New
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Book Reviews of First Meetings in Ender's Universe

Book Review: A worthwhile addition to the saga!
Summary: 5 Stars

Orson Scott Card's masterpiece, Ender's Game the novel, has been an invaluable tool for teachers and parents to show young people how much fun reading can be, inspiring so many of the last two generations to become serious readers. It is also considered one of the very best all-time science fiction stories. Besides that superb stand-alone novel, Card has expanded the "Enderverse" with numerous sequels and parallel books that have almost universally received high praise from fans and critics alike. This book, FIRST MEETINGS IN ENDER'S UNIVERSE, is a collection of four short novellas that fill in some of the back story of Ender's saga, focusing on key events that helped shape the direction of the overall story, but that had not been previously told. All four of these short stories are very well written, highly entertaining, and should be enjoyed by any fan of the series.

Two of the stories tell of Ender's father, John Paul, who as a young man was pressured to join Battle School (as Ender later did), and managed to manipulate -and was manipulated by- the one-world government of the time. My favorite story of this book shows how John Paul met and began courting Ender's mother, a somewhat disgruntled (but genius) graduate-student teacher of his, during his days at University. One other novella here skips to the time between the novels Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, and shows us how Ender first met Jane, his wonderfully-complex virtual companion of the later Ender novels. This tale proves amusing, but doesn't really add much to the greater story, as we already knew how Jane came to be, and Ender's relationship with the program is central to -and fully explored by- other books.

Finally, this volume also contains the original "Ender's Game" short story, first published by Analog magazine in 1977. This is the first time I've read the original story, and I found it fantastic. I had been curious about how Card had crammed the fast-paced and intricate story from the novel into such a short piece, and it was really interesting to see what was included and what was initially missing from the story. Obviously, I'd recommend the full novel to those just entering the Enderverse, but for those who wish to make a quick visit to Ender's Game, this short story provides a wonderfully nostalgic experience.

While short, this collection of novellas is of excellent quality and content. Fans of the series should be pleased. Highly Recommended!

Summary of First Meetings in Ender's Universe

Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game--winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories.

"The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man--or boy--in John Paul Wiggin....

In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection--a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student.

"The Investment Counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive--until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xeoncide.

Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender's Game," which first appeared in 1977.

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