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| Edition: | Tor Books (Hardcover) |
| Author: | Orson Scott Card |
| Published: | November 2008 |
| Pages: | 384 |
| ISBN 10: | 0765304961 |
| New: | $5.89 (46) |
| Used: | $0.01 (95) |
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Ender in Exile is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, published on November 11, 2008. It is a Interquel and occurs in between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. It could also be considered a parallel novel to the last three books in the Shadow Saga since the entirety of these books take place in the span of Ender in Exile. Ender in Exile begins one year after Ender has won the bugger war, and begins with the short story "Ender's Homecoming" from Card's webzine Intergalactic Medicine Show. Each chapter begins with an email similar to some of the IMS Short Stories.
Plot Summary
The story takes place mostly between chapter 14 and 15 of Ender's Game. The story begins one year after the Formics were defeated and the Battle School kids started to return to earth, except Ender. It was agreed that Ender could not go back to Earth because there could be world dramas, and possibly wars, over who got to keep Ender to use for their own will. Since Ender had no way to go back to Earth, he was offered the job of becoming the Governor of the first colony of the Formics' former worlds. The planet would eventually become known as Shakespeare. His sister Valentine decided to accompany Ender on his journey because she was sick of being controlled by her older brother Peter, and because she wanted to rekindle the relationship she had lost with her little brother Ender.
On their way to the Shakespeare colony Valentine began writing her History of the Bugger Wars books while Ender was having an unspoken power struggle with the Captain of the ship Admiral Quincy Morgan. Most of this struggle is from the short story Ender in Flight. Once the ship landed on Shakespeare, Ender, who had been working to learn the names and lives of all of the people of the colony he was going to for the two year voyage, immediately took control of the situation and won the people over.
Ender resides as Governor for a few years in Shakespeare. Near the end of his time as governor, Ender, and a young boy from the colony named Abra, go to find a site for a new shipment of colonists. Ender wants it to be far enough away from the other settlements so that there won't be competition between them right away, and so they can develop separately. In the process of finding a new settlement, Ender stumbles upon what seems to be the equivalent of a note from the Formics. It is a structure made to look like a game he used to play in battle school. When Ender goes to investigate the structure, he finds the pupa of a living Formic Hive Queen that is fertilized and prepared to make hundreds of thousands of babies upon its own maturation.
The find leads Ender to write his first book as the Speaker for the Dead. It is a book titled The Hive Queen and it tries to look at the Formic wars, and their eventual destruction, from the point of view of the Formics. Later, Peter Wiggin, nearing the end of his life, knows that Ender wrote the story and asks him to write one for him for when he dies. This book becomes known as The Hegemon.
After this, Ender resigns as Governor of Shakespeare and leaves the colony for another called Ganges. The leader of Ganges is Virlomi, who was in battle school with Ender. Here he encounters Randall Firth who believes he is the son of Achilles de Flandres, and even refers to himself by the name Achilles. Randal starts the propaganda of Ender the Xenocide in an attempt to discredit Virlomi and get revenge against Peter Wiggin, who he believes is responsible for his father's defeat. Randall tries twice to meet with Ender and discredit him somehow. On the second visit his plan is to cleverly provoke Ender into killing him so that people will see how violent and dangerous he is, but Ender does not attack. Instead Ender tries to convince Randall that he is not Achilles' son, but that he is in fact the son of Bean and Petra; hence where he gets his giantism from. In the end, Randall believes him, though Ender took a beating before it concluded. Randall ends up changing his name to Arkanian Delphiki.
After Ender heals a bit, he, Valentine, and the Hive Queen pupa get on a star ship to go to new places.
