The Ender Quartet Box Set: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind | 
 enlarge | Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
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ISBN: 0765362430
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
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Publication Date: November 4, 2008
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This boxed set contains Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Ender's Game Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. Speaker for the Dead In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth. Xenocide The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.
On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and Pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.
Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the Pequeninos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable. Children of the Mind The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.
Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.
Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves.
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 Luv Ender - Hate Card December 30, 2008
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
I loved these books - until I found out the Orson Scott Card is a Raving Looney! Read the politics above, but for my money, he went over the top when he called for the overthrow of the American Government if Gays were allowed to marry.
I wish you wouldn't spend your money on someone so obviously full of hate.
I only wish I could get all my money back for all the books of his I've bought over the years.
 Orson Scott Card is an incredible storyteller! December 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
These books are all fantastic. Orson Scott Card is one of the best storytellers I've encountered. The Ender series is written by an adult, but captures the thoughts and actions of children. These are a truly enjoyable read.
The Ender Quartet Box December 18, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Ender Quartet Box Set: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the MindThe first book was very good. The second book was not as good and the third was just terrible. The characters are not well developed and the prose was just ok. The story in the third book just strains credulity to the point of foolishness. Would not recommend this author and would not read any more of his books. There are just so many quality authors out there that these books would not be missed.
Why we don't give Illuminati authors high rank anymore December 16, 2008
0 out of 26 found this review helpful
Hello there,
DISAGREEING WITH ORSON SCOTT CARD ON POLITICS AND THE REASON FOR THE ONE STAR.
There is nothing wrong in making a personal choise on reading a book written by an author who supports the Illuminati in some form , such as the war on terror , or who makes a conscious effort to do so , what is wrong , is when someone chooses to read such a book , knowing that it's author was a supporter of Illuminati policy (they can only have a domestic policy toward the global population as a whole).
Orson knows that the War on Terror was an illegal act , and due to his continuous decision to support it , he will slowly loose his reputation and his luck , unless he changes his views and tries to find ways to make them extreme free. Here we have a man who deliberately makes a decision to support an illegal invasion against the homelands of millions of people and doesn't seem to think long and hard about the effort to make that decision before he made it.
This is why Ender's Game could not possibly be filmed , because the idea of filming the novel came out at the same time that the luck the modern Illuminati have had , came to an end. There are lots of groups out there who call themselves Illuminati , most of whom are not related to those Illuminati we speak of.
The enemy of the human race , is not someone who calls themselves an Illuminati organization and choose to initiate a mountaineer - the Illuminati talked about in books such as the Children of the Matrix by David Icke , are real , flesh & blood people , and when someone chooses to support something like the illegal 'war on terror'and chooses to publish a book , then that person is punished indefinitely. He may change his views on politics in the future , but that cannot change the fact that he had those views , and so he has a chance like most others.
If he had chosen to be a supporter for the truth and fo basic human freedoms and the planet Earth as a whole , then I could have given him five stars.
Just before I discovered that he supports the War on Terror and Bush & Cheney , I suddenly stopped to read Ender's Game for no appearent reason. It was as if something was telling me not to read it anymore , and that this man was going to be exposed , due to 2012. Despite all the suffering and horror that the people who were maimed , killed and persecuted or thrown into exile who were against the war on terror had to endure , this otherwise brilliant author had to make one false move , and a most stupid attempt to end his carreer as a writer , and let down probably millions of readers. What saves mr. Orson , however , is the power of his writings , and the massive volume of published works , and the number of people he can count on if he gets into trouble - none of them being connected to my knowledge with those he claims to support in his magazines.
Science fiction writers and political writers often end up becoming religious zealots seeking to destroy the freedoms or liberties most of us are entitled to enjoy , and once they make a decision in that direction they immediately become crazy because belief is freedom is a fundamentally important part of sanity. I tag this under 'psychological' to debunk the claim that the War on Terror is something else than yet another attack on humankind as a whole , with the word 'humans' , plural derived from 'human'being replaced by 'terror'to justify attacks against people such as Afghan civilians , Iraqi soldiers or even members of US or British troops.
My single star choise , however , is not one based on hatred in any form. I cannot hate Orson because I would have to know him personally to be able to do so , and there would otherwise have to be a reason. But I have to be so mercilessly critical of decisions by some authors to support things like the War on Terror , that I pick upon the single star , to remind them where they stand on that issue. Fortunately those who are against the War on Terror are in the majority , and not any longer in the minority , and yet even so , a tiny number but growing one seems to belong to people such as myself , who feel that the War on Terror is really an attack against humans , perpertrated by various individuals who consider humans to be a form of terror. It would not be surprising therefore to expect that Orson is not aware that the word 'terror'in the acronym 'war on terror'refers to humans - Earth humans , and not some mythical , nonexistent Al kind of Quaeda.
I have no need therefore to support Al Quaeda or anything related , because in my view that's all a sham or a scam depending on how I choose to look at that from that perspective. So I feel that 'I hate it'is inappropriate for a book on Amazon. I love Ender's Game , and I don't resent or hate Orson , and I wish he had the capability to form some kind of independent , political opinion. There is no need for me to hate the Bushes or any 'government official'at present because the only government officials I know are those who belong to my country and I don't have any reason to my knowledge to hate them.
The one star can mean a lot to somebody like me or Orson and on a place like Amazon it doesn't have to mean hatred for a product.
warm regards, with wishes of good luck to mr. Orson,
Ender's Game Saga December 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Orson Scott Card really did a good job with this series. These are exactly the type of book that I like, good explanation of the world in that age, good character basis, and layed the plot down perfectly.
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