Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Full Cast Recording

Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

Audie Award Finalist, Multi-Voiced Performance, 2014

Audie Award Finalist, Original Work, 2014

Experience Ender's Game as you've never heard it before! With an all-new, original script written by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game Alive is a full cast audio drama that reimagines the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic.

Ender’s Game Alive puts you into Battle School with young Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, as he trains to become the general who will lead Earth against the Formics, the alien "buggers". Removed from his family at the age of six, Ender must prove his strength and his leadership, even as he fights his own doubts. The stakes are nothing less than the fate of humankind.

Ender's Game Alive is performed by Kirby Heyborne, Stefan Rudnicki, Theodore Bikel, Scott Brick, Samantha Eggar, Harlan Ellison, Susan Hanfield, Roxanne Hernandez, Janis Ian, Rex Linn, Richard McGonagle, Jim Meskimen, Emily Rankin, John Rubinstein, Christian Rummel, and a full cast.

Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir

Original Score by John Rubinstein

Valentine's Theme by Janis Ian

Additional music and arrangements by Mark Mitchell

©2013 Orson Scott Card (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Listeners will feel surrounded by Card's sophisticated, high-stakes universe. With a stately musical score and video-game sound effects, this "re-imagined" production sticks close to the novel while offering listeners an entertaining new way to enjoy one of science fiction's best loved stories.” ( AudioFile)

Good story

However unless you are someone who thrives on military scheming, finishing it is a struggle. Several times I wanted to just hang it out to dry. The cast did their best performances with a sometimes monotonous script. The fact that I stayed through speaks well of the author's tale.

Bizarre - Cuts Major, Important

If this is your first experience of Ender’s Game, STOP. THIS IN NOT THE ORIGINAL BOOK. Go find the original.
*********SPOILER**********- I’ve read and listened to books many times. What they added and removed seemed unfortunate to me. Only -barely- mentioning Locke and Demosthenes leaves out about half of the book, both literally and meaning. The book wasn’t just about the battle. It wasn’t just about genocide, it was about humanity killing ourselves and the aftermath or this war. Without that side of the book, this whole experiment failed.

Amazing

Addicting! Seriously done so well. Writing this review on my 2nd go through. Highly recommend.

Better than the movie

It left a lot out and changed a few things. You still need to read the whole book to get the full experience.

Read Enders Game First

definitely only read this if you've already read Enders Game.
I had a bit of trouble following at first simply because I had to figure out who was talking. it's been a while since I read Enders Game

Good, not Great

Wish they would have stayed with the original story instead of changing the sorry. Still good though.

An awesome adaptation of Ender's Game!! Loved it!

I have always loved Ender's Game and the whole Enderverse. I have also read the book almost ten times. I listened to this audioplay with almost no expectations but with full knowledge of how it fits into the Enderverse. Orson Scott Card managed to rewrite the story in a really convincing way making it fun and informative for even his hardcore readers. His delivery of narration through dialogues and the proper sound effects was quite good. He used the advantage of hindsight to tweak the story and the characters allowing any listeners to nicely segway into First Meetings or Speaker for the Dead. The performers did a great job in portraying the innocence and the emotions of the characters as they develop through the story. The only reason for me to knock the one star was because the kids are played by adult voice actors. If you get over it, you will love it.

Excellent

I loved this because it is not your traditional military SF. It was very good.

great full cast audio drama

amazong full cast audio drama of a classic young adult scifi book dose have to cut little bits out here and there for time of you have read and know the original book well you will notice but getting to hear a book like this as an audio drama is worth it.

Very good performance but leaves some story out

If you've read the book, you'll notice quite a few things glossed over or clarified versus how the original story was written. But very good performance and I loved having this classic story in another media! I've watched the movie, read the story in English and Spanish, and this was a good other way added in.