Ender in Exile

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, David Birney, Cassandra Campbell, Emily Janice Card, Don Leslie, Mirron Willis, Orson Scott Card

Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel, Ender in Exile.

At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin - called Ender by everyone - is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but instead the 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies. With him went his sister Valentine, and the core of the artificial intelligence that would become Jane.

The story of those years has never been told...until now.

The End? Listen to more of Ender's story.

©2008 Orson Scott Card (P)2008 Macmillan Audio

just after The Game

If you ever wanted a story that follows Ender's exploits directly after winning the Bugger/Formic War - this is the novel for you.
I also find this one of the closest stories to Ender's Game in that we experience Ender and his machinations against an 'unspoken' enemy and at a Time of no great remove from the original novel. I definitely prefer this to 'Speaker' simply because it deals with the same Timeframe and has Ender resolving interior conflicts from his experience in the original. It is not absolutely necessary that you read the original before this book but it will certainly heighten the experience. Beside that I would recommend the original to any and everyone as a matter of course and recommend this to anyone that enjoyed 'Ender's Game', anyone of the other books in the Ender universe, or finely crafted science fiction in the YA vein. I would never ascribe to any of Card's novels the YA moniker, but this novel does focus on young adult characters so I will make the association because it applies by exact definition. Enjoy

I'm likely biased, I simply love the Enderverse

Highly recommend for anyone, but more so for those who crave time with these amazing characters!

Love the enders series

Very glad that I have been able to listen to more of the series.

AWESOME!

GREAT BOOK! I have read all the Ender books and I have to say that this book is the best one since Ender's game. I like it even MORE than Speaker for the Dead.

The latter books in the series just dragged on and on and on and I have to admit that it was a chore to get through Children of the Mind. I was afraid that this book would be the same but I went ahead and got it anyway and I am glad I did.

The characters in this book are so believable and landing on Shakespeare Colony has to be one of the greatest moments in this series! This book made me love and respect Ender more than any of them.

Kudos to Orson Scott Card.

Worth a listen

One of my favorite writers and he didn't dissapoint again. The enderverse is so interesting that I'm looking forward to every new book that comes out. Narrators truly understand the book and I am enjoying listen even more because of them. If you haven't listen to Enders game, Enders shadow and all the others you should start and you won't be sorry

Well Told!

This really did fill in the empty space in the Ender series. Well written and very easy to put into the pocket of time that the Ender series and Shadow series fall into.

Couldn't put my ipod down...

This is a great addition to the Ender books and I highly recommend it if you have enjoyed the other Ender books. The narrator and audio quality seemed identical to the other Ender books. I highly suggest finishing the Shadow series (starting with Ender's Shadow and ending with Shadow of the Giant, I think) before reading this. It isn't required to understand Ender in Exile, but this book would contain some spoilers and some of the impact of significant minor characters would be lost without having finished the Shadow series as this functions partially as a conclusion to the series. At an absolute minimum, I would suggest reading Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow first.

great book

I really liked the book, I thought a long time ago that maybe the author was just looking to cash in just a little more on the popularity of the series, but I the book added to the overall story and was in and of itself very good.

Handled so well

Card is able to flit back and forth across his Ender timeline filling in spaces that make the entire work so much better. This was one of my favorites and well with the read.

A good follow up - but don't expect action

This picks up somewhat after Speaker for the Dead but goes back to serve to tell the story of Ender presumably right after the end of the Formic wars. The book is more about emotion, politics and the evolution of Ender than about battles and child manipulation. It is a richer story and really fleshes out the Ender character a lot more. Really enjoyed it.
Good voice performances throughout as well.