Ender in Exile
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books (2010)
In Collection
#1445
0*
Science Fiction
Mass Market Paperback 9780765344151
USA  English
After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender's Game.In Ender’s Game, the world’s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life.After the life-changing events of those years, these children—now teenagers—must leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world.Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for years—where do they go now? What can they do? Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home he’s ever known to begin a relativistic—and revelatory—journey beyond the stars.  What happened during the years between Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead? What did Ender go through from the ages of 12 through 35? The story of those years has never been told. Taking place 3000 years before Ender finally receives his chance at redemption in Speaker for the Dead, this is the long-lost story of Ender.For twenty-three years, millions of readers have wondered and now they will receive the answers. Ender in Exile is Orson Scott Card’s moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one never forgot.On one of these ships, there is a baby that just may share the same special gifts as Ender’s old friend Bean…
Product Details
Dewey 813
Series Ender
Cover Price $7.99
No. of Pages 416
Height x Width 6.7 x 4.2  inch
Original Publication Year 2008
Personal Details
Read It Yes (1/25/2010)
Store Borders
Purchase Price $5.35
Purchase Date 1/16/2010
Owner John
Links Amazon
Notes
Ender in Exile (2008) 455 pages by Orson Scott Card

This is a sequel to Ender's Game, with the events preceding those in Speaker for the Dead. So if you've never read the series, you could read this one before Speaker. Ender's game is a classic, and won the 1986 Hugo. The Earth has been attacked by the buggers. Ender, and other superintellegent children, are drafted by the I.F. and sent to battle school to train to be tactician/soldiers.

Ender in Exile picks up at the end of Ender's Game. The other battle school children are being sent home to Earth, but the political unrest around the world makes it too dangerous for Ender to come home. He instead is chosen to become governor of one of the new colonies. A lot of readers will already know what's going to happen so much of the suspense is gone, but it's still very interesting in how it gets done. There are also some minor characters where we don't know don't their fate ahead of time.

I think I noticed this in other works by Card, he has his characters analyze the consequence of their action, and analyze, and analyze, sort of like they are chess players looking several moves ahead. It's sort of interesting, getting inside everybody's thought process, and it seems that the characters in Card's books have an exceptional grasp of the outcome of their actions. Especially the protagonists.

Ender in Exile was really good, and if you haven't read the series, I would say go ahead read, Ender's game, Ender's Shadow, this one, then either go on with the shadow (Bean) series, or with Speaker/Xenocide/Children of the Mind.