First Meetings

In the Enderverse

De: Orson Scott Card

Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir, Amanda Karr, Stefan Rudnicki

First Meetings is a collection of three novellas (plus the original "Ender's Game") that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin.

"The Polish Boy", a novella written especially for this collection, begins in the years between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender, they believe they may have found their man. Or boy.

In "Teacher's Pest", also written especially for this collection, a brilliant but insufferably arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now an American university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student named Theresa Brown.

It is many years since the end of the Bugger Wars in "The Investment Counselor". Ender's reputation as a hero and savior has suffered a horrible reversal. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, 20-year-old Ender Wiggin wanders incognito form planet to planet as a fugitive, until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide.

Also here is the original landmark "Ender's Game", which first appeared in 1977.

First Meetings is Orson Scott Card at the height of his considerable powers, featuring his most compelling character.

©2003 Orson Scott Card; (P) 2003, 2004 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Character, setting, plot: Card does them all right, and makes it look effortless....For newcomers to Ender's universe and long-time fans, this book will hit the spot and whet the appetite for more." (School Library Journal)
"Even those who are intimately familiar with the concepts of the Game from later Ender books will be struck anew by Card's virtuosity. His powerful voice and startlingly clear vision will draw many new readers into a lifelong love of science fiction. This accessible collection will impress even non-sci-fi buffs, besides being a must-have for Ender saga devotees." (Publishers Weekly) "These stories demonstrate the assured scene setting, apparently effortlessly sustained suspense, and moral preoccupation with the responsibilities of kinship and friendship that distinguishes Ender's entire saga." (Booklist)

they should have omitted the music

This has become one of my favorite Ender's books. Someone thought that it would be good to provide a short music track under the voices at the beginning and end of each short story. This fights with my hearing loss so that it is hard to understand the narrator at those times. Also, Audible's chapter breaks do not occur at the beginning of each short story, which makes it hard to pick one out of the middle. But the excellent performance and well told stories make up for any lack of production quality.

Distracting Music

I enjoyed the short stories very much and the narrators did a great job. However, the schizophrenic music that played at integral parts was so loud and distracting, it made it impossible to focus on the spoken words.

Reference: ch. 2 @ 1:15:30, ch. 3 @ 2:28:30, ch. 4 @ 3:42:17, ch. 5 @ 5:13:24

Good reading marred by loud background music

I have listened to most books in this series. The readers are great as always, but the intro and outro music of the stories is a bit loud compared to the reader's voice at times.

Provides some back stories for the Ender universe that will provide new perspective on rereading of the other books of the series. Also it's nice to hear the original short story that would become Ender's Game.

doesn't follow enders game very well.

the first stories were great but the one about ender did not follow the original book very well

Good book - music too loud!

The music at that bookend the chapters nearby ruins it, as you strain to hear the final narrative. otherwise great stories as usual.