Series
Ender Wiggin
Orson Scott Card · 6 novels · 4 novelettes · 2 short stories · 2 collections · 1977–2021
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (1985, expanded from his 1977 novella) follows child prodigy Andrew "Ender" Wiggin as he is recruited into a military training program built to prepare Earth's defenses for an anticipated third war against an insectoid alien species known as the Formics. The saga continues years later through Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide, following an older Ender as he confronts the moral weight of his role in that earlier conflict, and concludes the core arc in Children of the Mind, with Ender in Exile filling in the years between the first two books. Set within the wider Ender's Game universe, the series shifts from military coming-of-age story to slower, more philosophical science fiction as it progresses.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order events happen in the world.
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This route follows Ender's life in the order it happens rather than the order the books appeared. Ender in Exile moves up to second: published more than two decades after Speaker for the Dead, it covers the years directly after Ender's Game and bridges into everything that follows. The four later novels keep their published sequence. The collections around the novels are left out, and of the shorter pieces only Investment Counselor is here, in the gap where Ender meets Jane; the six novels carry the story.
- Omnibus editions(6 editions)
Map
Ender Wiggin at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s2
- 1990s3
- 2000s6
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
6 novels · 4 novelettes · 2 short stories · 2 collections
1 author
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 46% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book13 of 14 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Ender's Gamedarkest
- Ender's Stockingbrightest
- Ender's Homecomingcalmest
- First Meetings: Three Stories from the Enderversemost intense