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Ender's Game (novel series)

December 15, 2023

For other uses, see Ender's Game (disambiguation).

The Ender's Game series (often referred to as the Ender saga and also the Enderverse) is a series of science fiction books written by American author Orson Scott Card. The series started with the novelette Ender's Game, which was later expanded into the novel of the same title. It currently consists of sixteen novels, thirteen short stories, 47 comic issues, an audioplay, and a film. The first two novels in the series, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won both the Hugo[1][2] and Nebula[1][3] Awards.

The series is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known formally as "Formics", but more colloquially as "Buggers". The series protagonist, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, is one of the child soldiers trained at Battle School (and eventually Command School) to be the future leaders for the protection of Earth.

Enderverse edit

Ender series edit

Starting with Ender's Game, five novels and one novella have been released that tell the story of Ender. The first four have been described (and released as a box set) as The Ender Quartet and, together with Ender in Exile, as The Ender Quintet. Card first wrote Ender's Game as a novelette, but later expanded it into a novel.

While the first novel concerned itself with armies and space warfare, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are more philosophical in nature, dealing with the difficult relationship between the humans and the "Piggies" (or "Pequeninos"), and Andrew's (Ender's) attempts to stop another xenocide from happening.[citation needed]

A War of Gifts: An Ender Story, a novella, was released in October 2007. It is a parallel story set during Ender's first year in Battle School.[4]

Ender in Exile, which is both a sequel to Ender's Game and a prequel to Speaker for the Dead, was released in November 2008. It involves Ender's journey to the first human colony on a former Formic world. Because of changes Card made to a few details of the story of that first colony ship and Ender's role as governor, it serves as a replacement for the last chapter of Ender's Game. It also deals with his meeting a character from the parallel Shadow saga (effectively wrapping up a remaining plotline in the parallel series).[citation needed]

Shadow saga edit

Starting with Ender's Shadow, five novels and one novella have been released that tell the story of the people Ender left behind – this has been dubbed the Shadow saga (also known as the "Shadow Quintet").

Ender's Shadow is a parallel novel to Ender's Game, telling many of the same events from the perspective of Bean, a mostly peripheral character in Ender's Game, while the first three sequels, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant tell the story of the struggle for world dominance after the Bugger War. This involves the Battle School children, as well as Ender's brother, Peter Wiggin, and Petra Arkanian going up against Achilles de Flandres (from Poke's crew).

A sequel novella to Shadow of the Giant named Shadows in Flight further introduces three of Bean's children who also have Anton's key turned.

The Last Shadow (previously called Shadows Alive),[5] released in November 2021, takes place after both Children of the Mind and Shadows in Flight, tying up the two series, and explaining some unanswered questions.

Formic Wars edit

The First Formic War edit

Card and Aaron Johnston wrote a trilogy to cover the events of the First Formic War. Chronologically, this series comes before all other books in the Ender's Game series. Earth Unaware was released on July 17, 2012. Earth Afire, was released on June 4, 2013,[6] and Earth Awakens[7] on June 10, 2014.

The Second Formic War edit

On November 4, 2013, Johnston confirmed[8] work on a second trilogy of novels covering the Second Formic War, with the manuscript for the first book due in 2014.[9] The planned titles of the novels are (in order) The Swarm, The Hive, and The Queens.[10] The Swarm, continuing the stories of Victor Delgado, Mazer Rackham, and Bingwen,[11] was released on August 2, 2016.[12][13] The Hive was released on June 11, 2019.[14]

Fleet School edit

According to an interview with Orson Scott Card[15] at Southern Virginia University, Fleet School[16] is "a new set of sequels to Ender's Game. It's for a young adult audience. It's what happens to Battle School after the International Fleet loses its purpose of war. It becomes what is called Fleet School, and it prepares kids to become commanders / explorers in the colonies that are going to be forming. We get to see that as the school administrators repurpose the school, the Battle Room is still there, but it's a whole different kind of education." On November 12, 2015, Orson Scott Card announced the title of the series and its first novel,[17] Children of the Fleet was released on October 10, 2017.[18]

Publications edit

Novels in the series edit

To date, there are 19 publications in the Ender's Game series, five novels and one novella in the Ender series, five novels and one novella in the Shadow Saga, five novels in the Formic Wars series, one novel in the Fleet School series and one collection of short stories. According to Card, there is no strictly preferred order of reading them, except that Xenocide should be read right before Children of the Mind.[19] The books can be read in the order in which they were originally written or in chronological order.

Publication date edit

# Title Series Format Words Release Awards/Notes
1 Ender's Game Ender Series Novel 100,758[20] 1985 Nebula Award winner, 1985;[1] Hugo Award winner, 1986;[1] Locus Award nominee, 1986[1]
2 Speaker for the Dead Ender Series Novel 128,573[21] 1986 Nebula Award winner, 1986;[1] Hugo & Locus Awards winner, 1987;[1] Campbell Award nominee, 1987[1]
3 Xenocide Ender Series Novel 183,062[22] 1991 Hugo and Locus Awards nominee, 1992[23]
4 Children of the Mind Ender Series Novel 114,367[24] 1996
5 Ender's Shadow Shadow Saga Novel 140,223[25] 1999 Shortlisted for a Locus Award, 2000[26]
6 Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Saga Novel 114,042[27] 2001 Shortlisted for a Locus Award, 2002[28]
7 Shadow Puppets Shadow Saga Novel 99,561[29] 2002
8 First Meetings Ender Series Collection 48,319[30] 2002 "First Meetings" is a collection of three novellas and "Ender's Game".[31]
9 Shadow of the Giant Shadow Saga Novel 106,531[32] 2005
10 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story Ender Series Novella 20,922[33] 2007
11 Ender in Exile Ender Series Novel 126,600[34] 2008
12 Shadows in Flight Shadow Saga Novella 54,113[35] 2012
13 Earth Unaware Formic Wars Novel 129,137[36] 2012
14 Earth Afire Formic Wars Novel 147,159[37] 2013
15 Earth Awakens Formic Wars Novel 135,172[38] 2014
16 The Swarm Formic Wars Novel 156,745[39] 2016
17 Children of the Fleet Fleet School Novel 101,065[40] 2017
18 The Hive[10] Formic Wars Novel 132,965[41] 2019
19 The Last Shadow[5] Shadow Saga Novel 94,185[42] 2021 "Shadows in Flight" was originally planned as part of The Last Shadow (previously called "Shadows Alive")[43][44][5]
20 The Queens[10] Formic Wars Novel TBA TBA
Total 2,039,314

Chronological order edit

Chronological chart of Enderverse stories
  Short Stories
  
  Novels
  
  Comics
  
  Audioplay
  
  Film
 
 		First Formic
War Trilogy
Second Formic
War Trilogy
Cheater
(2006)
 
 
 
Ender's Shadow
(1999)
[note 1]
Ender's Shadow:
Battle School
(2009)
Command School
(2010)
Ultimate collection
(2012)
 
 
 
Ender's Game
Alive
(2013)
 
 
 
 
 
Recruiting Valentine
(2009)
 
 
 
The League War
(2010)
 
 
Ender's Game
(1977)
 
Ender's Game
(1985)
[note 1]
Ender's Game:
Battle School
(2009)
Command School
(2010)
Ultimate collection
(2012)
 
Ender's Game
(2013)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Shadow Trilogy
Fleet School
Renegat
(2017)
 The Speaker Trilogy
Messenger
(2018)
  1. ^ a b c The events of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and A War of Gifts take place in roughly the same time period.
    The events of A War of Gifts only take place during the time at Battle School).
  2. ^ a b The events of Ender in Exile and the Shadow Trilogy take place in roughly the same time period.
    - First part of Ender in Exile (2/3) takes place during the Shadow Trilogy.
    - Last part of Ender in Exile (1/3) takes places after Shadow of the Giant.
  3. ^ a b Note on the following (maybe not yet so common) Trilogies:
    "Speaker Trilogy": Original set of sequels to Ender's Game, also referred to as:
    - "Ender Quartet" (Ender's Game combined with "Speaker Trilogy"), also referred to as:
    - "Ender Quintet" ("Ender Quartet" combined with Ender in Exile).
    "Shadow Trilogy": Original set of sequels to Ender's Shadow, also referred to as:
    - "Bean Quartet"/"Shadow Quartet" (Ender's Shadow combined with "Shadow Trilogy"), also referred to as:
    - "Bean Quintet"/"Shadow Quintet" ("Bean Quartet" combined with Shadows in Flight), could be referred to as:
    - "Bean Sextet"/"Shadow Sextet" ("Bean Quintet" combined with The Last Shadow)
  4. ^ Title is also mentioned in regard to a possible sequel for the film.
  1. Earth Unaware
  2. Earth Afire
  3. Earth Awakens
  4. The Swarm
  5. The Hive
  6. The Queens (TBA)
  7. Ender's Game
  8. Ender's Shadow (Note: The events of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow take place in roughly the same time period.)
  9. A War of Gifts (Note: This takes place during Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow.)
  10. Shadow of the Hegemon
  11. Children of the Fleet (Note: opening chapters take place during Shadow of the Hegemon.)
  12. Shadow Puppets
  13. Shadow of the Giant
  14. Ender in Exile (Note: Beginning takes place during Shadow of the Hegemon and through Shadow of the Giant)
  15. Shadows in Flight
  16. First Meetings (Note: This is actually a collection of four short stories. The first two take place when Ender's parents are children and in their teens. The next is the original novella "Ender's Game". The last brings Ender and Jane together for the first time. "First Meetings" is listed right before "Speaker for the Dead" because the last story takes place when Ender had just turned 20.)
  17. Speaker for the Dead
  18. Xenocide
  19. Children of the Mind
  20. The Last Shadow

Short stories in the series edit

Main article: List of Ender's Game series short stories

First Meetings edit

First Meetings is a collection of short stories whose settings range from before Ender's Game until after Shadows in Flight and was first released in 2002.

Comic books in the series edit

Main article: Ender's Game (comics)

Comic books in the Ender Universe are currently being published by Marvel Comics.

Game edit

In 2008 it was announced an Ender's Game video game was in the works.[45] It was to be known as Ender's Game: Battle Room and was a planned digitally distributed video game for all viable downloadable platforms.[46] It was under development by Chair Entertainment, which also developed the Xbox Live Arcade games Undertow and Shadow Complex. Chair had sold the licensing of Empire to Card, which became a best-selling novel. Little was revealed about the game, save its setting in the Ender universe and that it would have focused on the Battle Room.[46]

In December, 2010, it was announced that the video game development had stopped and the project put on indefinite hold.[47]

Orson Scott Card and Amaze Entertainment also came to an agreement about a game adaption of the Ender's Game novel but the plans never became a reality.[48]

Manga edit

In 2014, Satō Shūhō's manga, Ender's Game (Jp Ender no Game) appeared.[citation needed]

Audioplay edit

Main article: Ender's Game § Audioplay

Film edit

Main article: Ender's Game (film)

The film Ender's Game was released in the UK on October 25, 2013, and in the USA on November 1, 2013. The first script was based on two installments of the Ender series, Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, when optioned by Warner Brothers, but was adapted to focus exclusively on Ender's Game when purchased by Lionsgate.[49] The cast includes Harrison Ford, Abigail Breslin, Ben Kingsley, and Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin. The film was directed by Gavin Hood.[50][51]

Related edit

The Authorized Ender Companion edit

Written by Jake Black, The Authorized Ender Companion is "the indispensable guide to the universe of Ender's Game."[52] Sections in this book include: The Ender Encyclopedia, Ender's Timeline, Ender's Family Tree by Andrew Lindsay, Getting Ender Right: A Look at the Ender's Game Screenplay Development by Aaron Johnston, and The Technology of Ender's Game by Stephen Sywak. The majority of the book consists of encyclopedia references to the events, characters, locations, and technology found in the Ender's Game series up to the publication of Ender in Exile.

The book is notable for having new and behind the scenes information on certain topics such as Battle School Slang, The Look of the Formics, The History of Hyrum Graff, Ender and Valentine's Travels, and Mazer Rackham's Spaceship.

Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game edit

Ender's World contains 14 essays from Science Fiction and Young Adult writers, as well as military strategists and others about various aspects of Ender's Game. The book includes an introduction[53] by Orson Scott Card, who edited Ender's World and answers from many fan-submitted Enderverse questions from the Smart Pop Books Website.[54] These essays are included in the compilation:

Characters edit

The Formics, also known as Buggers, are a fictional ant-like alien species from the Ender's Game series of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card.

According to the novel canon, the Formics attacked Earth 50 years before the novel begins. They attempted to colonise the planet and were barely fought off by a New Zealand soldier known as Mazer Rackham. The first book in the series, Ender's Game, largely stems from the human quest to defend themselves from this species, although the Formics ultimately turn out as victims, with the first attack being an accident due to differing biology.

The term "Formic" is derived from formica, the Latin word for ant; whereas "bugger" is a pejorative used by humans; yet it was not until 1999's Ender's Shadow that the term 'Formic' was first used, interchangeably with 'Bugger'. Later books used 'Formic' almost exclusively, as the more 'scientific' term. This leads to odd scenarios in the continuity of the books, such as Valentine referring to them as "Buggers" in Ender's Game,[1] chronologically next as "Formics" in Ender in Exile,[2] and again as "Buggers" in Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide.[3] The feature film adaptation of Ender's Game uses "Formics" exclusively.

The Formic species consists of hive-minded colonies directed by queens. In Ender's Game, Graff described them as being an insect that "could have evolved on earth, if things had gone a different way a billion years ago," and that their evolutionary ancestors could have looked similar to Earth's ants. While often described as "insectoid", the Formics are warm-blooded, developed an internal skeleton and shed most of their exoskeleton, evolved a complex system of internal organs, and they respire and perspire. If a queen dies, all the workers under her control lose their ability to function immediately; but in Xenocide, implications exist that 'workers' can escape the influence of a queen. The Formic race is revealed to be trimorphic in Shadows in Flight. Drones are much smaller and depend on a Hive Queen for survival, and their bodies are shaped to spend their lives clinging to her, until upon her death, they take flight to seek out a new queen. Drones are capable of individual thought and action as well as mind-to-mind communication, more limited than that of a queen; whereas queens communicate instantaneously and can even do so with other species. Formics live in vast underground colonies, usually without light, informing the assumption that Formics make use of sensory apparatus outside the range of the electromagnetic spectrum visible to humans. In the first novel they have artificial lighting; whereas in Xenocide, Ender claims they rely on heat signature.

See also edit

Notes edit

1. ^ Ender's Game. p. 237. Valentine shivered, as if a cold breeze had suddenly passed. 'I refuse to watch the bugger vids anymore. They're always the same.'
2. ^ Ender in Exile. p. 46. 'The formics' worlds were all in the same arm of the galaxy as us, and not all that far away, as galaxies go,' said Valentine primly, to goad him.
3. ^ Xenocide. p. 173. 'What's wrong with the buggers getting offplanet?' asked Valentine.

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For other uses see Ender s Game disambiguation The Ender s Game series often referred to as the Ender saga and also the Enderverse is a series of science fiction books written by American author Orson Scott Card The series started with the novelette Ender s Game which was later expanded into the novel of the same title It currently consists of sixteen novels thirteen short stories 47 comic issues an audioplay and a film The first two novels in the series Ender s Game and Speaker for the Dead each won both the Hugo 1 2 and Nebula 1 3 Awards The series is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society an insect like race known formally as Formics but more colloquially as Buggers The series protagonist Andrew Ender Wiggin is one of the child soldiers trained at Battle School and eventually Command School to be the future leaders for the protection of Earth Contents 1 Enderverse 1 1 Ender series 1 2 Shadow saga 1 3 Formic Wars 1 3 1 The First Formic War 1 3 2 The Second Formic War 1 4 Fleet School 2 Publications 2 1 Novels in the series 2 1 1 Publication date 2 1 2 Chronological order 2 2 Short stories in the series 2 2 1 First Meetings 2 3 Comic books in the series 2 4 Game 2 5 Manga 2 6 Audioplay 2 7 Film 2 8 Related 2 8 1 The Authorized Ender Companion 2 8 2 Ender s World Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender s Game 3 Characters 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 Sources 8 External linksEnderverse editEnder series edit Starting with Ender s Game five novels and one novella have been released that tell the story of Ender The first four have been described and released as a box set as The Ender Quartet and together with Ender in Exile as The Ender Quintet Card first wrote Ender s Game as a novelette but later expanded it into a novel While the first novel concerned itself with armies and space warfare Speaker for the Dead Xenocide and Children of the Mind are more philosophical in nature dealing with the difficult relationship between the humans and the Piggies or Pequeninos and Andrew s Ender s attempts to stop another xenocide from happening citation needed A War of Gifts An Ender Story a novella was released in October 2007 It is a parallel story set during Ender s first year in Battle School 4 Ender in Exile which is both a sequel to Ender s Game and a prequel to Speaker for the Dead was released in November 2008 It involves Ender s journey to the first human colony on a former Formic world Because of changes Card made to a few details of the story of that first colony ship and Ender s role as governor it serves as a replacement for the last chapter of Ender s Game It also deals with his meeting a character from the parallel Shadow saga effectively wrapping up a remaining plotline in the parallel series citation needed Shadow saga edit Starting with Ender s Shadow five novels and one novella have been released that tell the story of the people Ender left behind this has been dubbed the Shadow saga also known as the Shadow Quintet Ender s Shadow is a parallel novel to Ender s Game telling many of the same events from the perspective of Bean a mostly peripheral character in Ender s Game while the first three sequels Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant tell the story of the struggle for world dominance after the Bugger War This involves the Battle School children as well as Ender s brother Peter Wiggin and Petra Arkanian going up against Achilles de Flandres from Poke s crew A sequel novella to Shadow of the Giant named Shadows in Flight further introduces three of Bean s children who also have Anton s key turned The Last Shadow previously called Shadows Alive 5 released in November 2021 takes place after both Children of the Mind and Shadows in Flight tying up the two series and explaining some unanswered questions Formic Wars edit The First Formic War edit Card and Aaron Johnston wrote a trilogy to cover the events of the First Formic War Chronologically this series comes before all other books in the Ender s Game series Earth Unaware was released on July 17 2012 Earth Afire was released on June 4 2013 6 and Earth Awakens 7 on June 10 2014 The Second Formic War edit On November 4 2013 Johnston confirmed 8 work on a second trilogy of novels covering the Second Formic War with the manuscript for the first book due in 2014 9 The planned titles of the novels are in order The Swarm The Hive and The Queens 10 The Swarm continuing the stories of Victor Delgado Mazer Rackham and Bingwen 11 was released on August 2 2016 12 13 The Hive was released on June 11 2019 14 Fleet School edit According to an interview with Orson Scott Card 15 at Southern Virginia University Fleet School 16 is a new set of sequels to Ender s Game It s for a young adult audience It s what happens to Battle School after the International Fleet loses its purpose of war It becomes what is called Fleet School and it prepares kids to become commanders explorers in the colonies that are going to be forming We get to see that as the school administrators repurpose the school the Battle Room is still there but it s a whole different kind of education On November 12 2015 Orson Scott Card announced the title of the series and its first novel 17 Children of the Fleet was released on October 10 2017 18 Publications editNovels in the series edit To date there are 19 publications in the Ender s Game series five novels and one novella in the Ender series five novels and one novella in the Shadow Saga five novels in the Formic Wars series one novel in the Fleet School series and one collection of short stories According to Card there is no strictly preferred order of reading them except that Xenocide should be read right before Children of the Mind 19 The books can be read in the order in which they were originally written or in chronological order Publication date edit Title Series Format Words Release Awards Notes1 Ender s Game Ender Series Novel 100 758 20 1985 Nebula Award winner 1985 1 Hugo Award winner 1986 1 Locus Award nominee 1986 1 2 Speaker for the Dead Ender Series Novel 128 573 21 1986 Nebula Award winner 1986 1 Hugo amp Locus Awards winner 1987 1 Campbell Award nominee 1987 1 3 Xenocide Ender Series Novel 183 062 22 1991 Hugo and Locus Awards nominee 1992 23 4 Children of the Mind Ender Series Novel 114 367 24 19965 Ender s Shadow Shadow Saga Novel 140 223 25 1999 Shortlisted for a Locus Award 2000 26 6 Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Saga Novel 114 042 27 2001 Shortlisted for a Locus Award 2002 28 7 Shadow Puppets Shadow Saga Novel 99 561 29 20028 First Meetings Ender Series Collection 48 319 30 2002 First Meetings is a collection of three novellas and Ender s Game 31 9 Shadow of the Giant Shadow Saga Novel 106 531 32 200510 A War of Gifts An Ender Story Ender Series Novella 20 922 33 200711 Ender in Exile Ender Series Novel 126 600 34 200812 Shadows in Flight Shadow Saga Novella 54 113 35 201213 Earth Unaware Formic Wars Novel 129 137 36 201214 Earth Afire Formic Wars Novel 147 159 37 201315 Earth Awakens Formic Wars Novel 135 172 38 201416 The Swarm Formic Wars Novel 156 745 39 201617 Children of the Fleet Fleet School Novel 101 065 40 201718 The Hive 10 Formic Wars Novel 132 965 41 201919 The Last Shadow 5 Shadow Saga Novel 94 185 42 2021 Shadows in Flight was originally planned as part of The Last Shadow previously called Shadows Alive 43 44 5 20 The Queens 10 Formic Wars Novel TBA TBATotal 2 039 314Chronological order edit vteChronological chart of Enderverse stories Short Stories Novels Comics Audioplay FilmFirst Meetings in the Enderverse 2002 2003 Ender s GameInvestment CounselorThe Polish BoyTeacher s Pest Formic Wars Burning Earth 2011 Formic Wars Silent Strike 2012 First FormicWar TrilogyEarth Unaware 2012 Earth Afire 2013 Earth Awakens 2014 War of Gifts 2010 Mazer in PrisonRecruiting ValentineThe League WarWar of GiftsOSCs InterGalacticMedicine Show 2008 Mazer in PrisonCheaterPretty BoyA Young Man withProspectsSecond FormicWar TrilogyThe Swarm 2016 The Hive 2019 The Queens TBA Mazer in Prison 2005 Mazer in Prison 2010 The Polish Boy 2002 Cheater 2006 Pretty Boy 2006 Teacher s Pest 2003 Ender s Shadow 1999 note 1 Ender s Shadow Battle School 2009 Command School 2010 Ultimate collection 2012 Ender s GameAlive 2013 Recruiting Valentine 2009 The League War 2010 Ender s Game 1977 Ender s Game 1985 note 1 Ender s Game Battle School 2009 Command School 2010 Ultimate collection 2012 Ender s Game 2013 Ender s Stocking 2007 A War of Gifts 2007 note 1 War of Gifts 2009 The Shadow Trilogy note 2 note 3 Shadow of the Hegemon 2001 Shadow Puppets 2002 Shadow of the Giant 2005 Ender s Homecoming 2008 A Young Man withProspects 2007 Ender in Flight 2008 The Gold Bug 2007 Ender in Exile 2008 note 2 Ender in Exile 2011 Gold Bug 2010 Fleet School note 4 Children of the Fleet 2017 TBC Governor Wiggin 2017 Investment Counselor 1999 Renegat 2017 Shadows in Flight 2012 Speaker for the Dead 2011 Gloriously Bright 1991 The Speaker Trilogy note 3 Speaker for the Dead 1986 Xenocide 1991 Children of the Mind 1996 Messenger 2018 The Last Shadow 2021 a b c The events of Ender s Game Ender s Shadow and A War of Gifts take place in roughly the same time period The events of A War of Gifts only take place during the time at Battle School a b The events of Ender in Exile and the Shadow Trilogy take place in roughly the same time period First part of Ender in Exile 2 3 takes place during the Shadow Trilogy Last part of Ender in Exile 1 3 takes places after Shadow of the Giant a b Note on the following maybe not yet so common Trilogies Speaker Trilogy Original set of sequels to Ender s Game also referred to as Ender Quartet Ender s Game combined with Speaker Trilogy also referred to as Ender Quintet Ender Quartet combined with Ender in Exile Shadow Trilogy Original set of sequels to Ender s Shadow also referred to as Bean Quartet Shadow Quartet Ender s Shadow combined with Shadow Trilogy also referred to as Bean Quintet Shadow Quintet Bean Quartet combined with Shadows in Flight could be referred to as Bean Sextet Shadow Sextet Bean Quintet combined with The Last Shadow Title is also mentioned in regard to a possible sequel for the film Earth Unaware Earth Afire Earth Awakens The Swarm The Hive The Queens TBA Ender s Game Ender s Shadow Note The events of Ender s Game and Ender s Shadow take place in roughly the same time period A War of Gifts Note This takes place during Ender s Game Ender s Shadow Shadow of the Hegemon Children of the Fleet Note opening chapters take place during Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of the Giant Ender in Exile Note Beginning takes place during Shadow of the Hegemon and through Shadow of the Giant Shadows in Flight First Meetings Note This is actually a collection of four short stories The first two take place when Ender s parents are children and in their teens The next is the original novella Ender s Game The last brings Ender and Jane together for the first time First Meetings is listed right before Speaker for the Dead because the last story takes place when Ender had just turned 20 Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind The Last ShadowShort stories in the series edit Main article List of Ender s Game series short stories First Meetings edit First Meetings is a collection of short stories whose settings range from before Ender s Game until after Shadows in Flight and was first released in 2002 Comic books in the series edit Main article Ender s Game comics Comic books in the Ender Universe are currently being published by Marvel Comics Game edit In 2008 it was announced an Ender s Game video game was in the works 45 It was to be known as Ender s Game Battle Room and was a planned digitally distributed video game for all viable downloadable platforms 46 It was under development by Chair Entertainment which also developed the Xbox Live Arcade games Undertow and Shadow Complex Chair had sold the licensing of Empire to Card which became a best selling novel Little was revealed about the game save its setting in the Ender universe and that it would have focused on the Battle Room 46 In December 2010 it was announced that the video game development had stopped and the project put on indefinite hold 47 Orson Scott Card and Amaze Entertainment also came to an agreement about a game adaption of the Ender s Game novel but the plans never became a reality 48 Manga edit In 2014 Satō Shuhō s manga Ender s Game Jp Ender no Game appeared citation needed Audioplay edit Main article Ender s Game Audioplay Film edit Main article Ender s Game film The film Ender s Game was released in the UK on October 25 2013 and in the USA on November 1 2013 The first script was based on two installments of the Ender series Ender s Game and Ender s Shadow when optioned by Warner Brothers but was adapted to focus exclusively on Ender s Game when purchased by Lionsgate 49 The cast includes Harrison Ford Abigail Breslin Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin The film was directed by Gavin Hood 50 51 Related edit The Authorized Ender Companion edit Written by Jake Black The Authorized Ender Companion is the indispensable guide to the universe of Ender s Game 52 Sections in this book include The Ender Encyclopedia Ender s Timeline Ender s Family Tree by Andrew Lindsay Getting Ender Right A Look at the Ender s Game Screenplay Development by Aaron Johnston and The Technology of Ender s Game by Stephen Sywak The majority of the book consists of encyclopedia references to the events characters locations and technology found in the Ender s Game series up to the publication of Ender in Exile The book is notable for having new and behind the scenes information on certain topics such as Battle School Slang The Look of the Formics The History of Hyrum Graff Ender and Valentine s Travels and Mazer Rackham s Spaceship Ender s World Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender s Game edit Ender s World contains 14 essays from Science Fiction and Young Adult writers as well as military strategists and others about various aspects of Ender s Game The book includes an introduction 53 by Orson Scott Card who edited Ender s World and answers from many fan submitted Enderverse questions from the Smart Pop Books Website 54 These essays are included in the compilation How It Should Have Ended by Eric James Stone 55 The Monster s Heart by John Brown 56 The Cost of Breaking the Rules by Mary Robinette Kowal 57 Winning and Losing in Ender s Game by Hilari Bell 58 Parallax Regained by David Lubar Alison S Myers 59 Mirror Mirror by Alethea Kontis 60 Size Matters by Janis Ian 61 Rethinking the Child Hero by Aaron Johnston 62 A Teenless World by Mette Ivie Harrison 63 Ender on Leadership by Colonel Tom Ruby 64 Ender Wiggin USMC by John F Schmitt 65 The Price of Our Inheritance by Neal Shusterman 66 If the Formics Love Their Children Too by Ken Scholes 67 Ender s Game A Guide to Life by Matt Nix 68 Characters editThe Formics also known as Buggers are a fictional ant like alien species from the Ender s Game series of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card According to the novel canon the Formics attacked Earth 50 years before the novel begins They attempted to colonise the planet and were barely fought off by a New Zealand soldier known as Mazer Rackham The first book in the series Ender s Game largely stems from the human quest to defend themselves from this species although the Formics ultimately turn out as victims with the first attack being an accident due to differing biology The term Formic is derived from formica the Latin word for ant whereas bugger is a pejorative used by humans yet it was not until 1999 s Ender s Shadow that the term Formic was first used interchangeably with Bugger Later books used Formic almost exclusively as the more scientific term This leads to odd scenarios in the continuity of the books such as Valentine referring to them as Buggers in Ender s Game 1 chronologically next as Formics in Ender in Exile 2 and again as Buggers in Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide 3 The feature film adaptation of Ender s Game uses Formics exclusively The Formic species consists of hive minded colonies directed by queens In Ender s Game Graff described them as being an insect that could have evolved on earth if things had gone a different way a billion years ago and that their evolutionary ancestors could have looked similar to Earth s ants While often described as insectoid the Formics are warm blooded developed an internal skeleton and shed most of their exoskeleton evolved a complex system of internal organs and they respire and perspire If a queen dies all the workers under her control lose their ability to function immediately but in Xenocide implications exist that workers can escape the influence of a queen The Formic race is revealed to be trimorphic in Shadows in Flight Drones are much smaller and depend on a Hive Queen for survival and their bodies are shaped to spend their lives clinging to her until upon her death they take flight to seek out a new queen Drones are capable of individual thought and action as well as mind to mind communication more limited than that of a queen whereas queens communicate instantaneously and can even do so with other species Formics live in vast underground colonies usually without light informing the assumption that Formics make use of sensory apparatus outside the range of the electromagnetic spectrum visible to humans In the first novel they have artificial lighting whereas in Xenocide Ender claims they rely on heat signature See also edit nbsp Novels portalEnder s Game film List of characters in the Ender s Game series List of works by Orson Scott Card Zerg an alien race from the Starcraft universe similar to the FormicsNotes edit1 Ender s Game p 237 Valentine shivered as if a cold breeze had suddenly passed I refuse to watch the bugger vids anymore They re always the same 2 Ender in Exile p 46 The formics worlds were all in the same arm of the galaxy as us and not all that far away as galaxies go said Valentine primly to goad him 3 Xenocide p 173 What s wrong with the buggers getting offplanet asked Valentine References edit a b c d e f g h 1986 Award Winners amp Nominees Worlds Without End Retrieved July 15 2009 1987 Award Winners amp Nominees Worlds Without End Retrieved July 15 2009 1985 Award Winners amp Nominees Worlds Without End Retrieved July 15 2009 Orson Scott Card at Fantastic Fiction a b c Card Orson April 5 2020 Maybe Some Good Will Come Out of This Hatrack River Retrieved September 2 2021 Aaron Johnston AaronWJohnston October 30 2012 EARTH AFIRE the sequel to EARTH UNAWARE by me and orsonscottcard will be released on June 4 2013 Tweet Retrieved April 12 2013 via Twitter Aaron Johnston AaronWJohnston March 15 2013 Title for book 3 of First Formic Trilogy will be EARTH AWAKENS Tweet Retrieved April 12 2013 via Twitter Aaron Johnston AaronWJohnston November 4 2013 therootsundo Thanks Hope you like book three And the three more after that There s another trilogy coming The Second Formic War Tweet Retrieved November 4 2013 via Twitter Aaron Johnston AaronWJohnston November 4 2013 EndersAnsible therootsundo Yes The second trilogy is happening Manuscript for book one is due in 2014 Tweet Retrieved November 4 2013 via Twitter a b c Orson Scott Card OrsonScottCard April 3 2014 The Second Formic Wars trilogy titles released The Swarm The Hive The Queens Tweet Retrieved April 21 2013 via Twitter Aaron Johnston AaronWJohnston July 2 2015 nolan724 You re welcome The next trilogy will continue Vico s story as well as the others Book one is written Titled THE SWARM Tweet via Twitter Aaron Johnston AaronWJohnston December 3 2015 The cover for our next novel Due August 2 Art by the incredible John Harris ift tt 1HJJkpO Tweet via Twitter Card Orson Scott Johnston Aaron August 2 2016 Fiction Book Review The Swarm by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston Tor ISBN 978 0 7653 7562 9 Retrieved September 1 2016 Aaron Johnston AaronWJohnston June 11 2019 THE HIVE is out today Thanks to the talented StefansEcho and his cast the brilliant bethmeacham the publishing wizard jengunnels everyone else at torbooks and all the readers who have supported us Deeply grateful Cheers to orsonscottcard Somos familia somos uno Tweet Retrieved June 20 2019 via Twitter Orson Scott Card announces new sequels to Ender s Game SouthernVirginiaUniv s YouTube Channel Retrieved November 1 2013 Orson Scott Card interview the extended version New Zealand Listener Retrieved October 31 2013 Orson Scott Card tweet Twitter Retrieved November 12 2015 Card Orson Scott October 10 2017 Children of the Fleet Fleet School ISBN 978 0765377043 Card Orson Scott Question What s the preferred order of reading the Ender series Frequently Asked Questions Hatrack com Retrieved May 15 2007 Ender s Game Text Stats Amazon com Retrieved November 28 2016 How long to read Speaker for the Dead ReadTime Retrieved June 14 2023 Xenocide Text Stats Amazon com Retrieved November 28 2016 1992 Award Winners amp Nominees Worlds Without End Retrieved July 15 2009 Children of the Mind Text Stats Amazon com Retrieved November 28 2016 Ender s Shadow Text Stats Amazon com Retrieved November 28 2016 2000 Award Winners amp Nominees Worlds Without End Retrieved July 15 2009 Shadow of the Hegemon Text Stats Amazon com Retrieved November 28 2016 2002 Award Winners amp Nominees Worlds Without End Retrieved July 15 2009 Shadow Puppets Text Stats Amazon com Retrieved November 28 2016 First Meetings Book Details AR BookFinder Retrieved August 6 2021 First Meetings In Ender s Universe Macmillan Macmillan Retrieved August 6 2021 Shadow of the Giant Text Stats Amazon com Retrieved November 28 2016 A War of Gifts An Ender Story Book Details AR BookFinder Retrieved November 28 2016 Ender in Exile Book Details AR BookFinder Retrieved November 28 2016 Shadows in Flight Book 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Alethea Kontis Archived May 13 2013 at the Wayback Machine Size Matters by Janis Ian Archived May 12 2013 at the Wayback Machine Rethinking the Child Hero by Aaron Johnston Archived May 13 2013 at the Wayback Machine A Teenless World by Mette Ivie Harrison Archived May 12 2013 at the Wayback Machine Ender on Leadership by Colonel Tom Ruby Archived May 13 2013 at the Wayback Machine Ender Wiggin USMC by John F Schmitt Archived May 12 2013 at the Wayback Machine The Price of Our Inheritance by Neal Shusterman Archived May 12 2013 at the Wayback Machine If the Formics Love Their Children Too by Ken Scholes Archived May 12 2013 at the Wayback Machine Ender s Game A Guide to Life by Matt Nix Archived April 26 2013 at the Wayback MachineSources editEnder s Game by Orson Scott Card Ender s Shadow by Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card Xenocide by Orson Scott Card Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card First Meetings by Orson Scott Card Ender in Exile by Orson Scott 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