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Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay

By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: Full Cast Recording
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With a full cast production, this highly-entertaining dramatization of the award-winning military science fiction story Ender's Game will wow fans as well as listeners new to this classic. Using an original screenplay written by Orson Scott Card himself, the audioplay takes listeners through Battle School with prodigy Ender Wiggin.

The cast fleshes out their characters with full personalities and motivations - in particular, the actors who portray the children at Battle School do a wonderful job in bringing out their precociousness and fading innocence. The action scenes are brisk and electrifying, and listeners will be swept up in the events of the story.

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)

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A brilliant Welcome Back

Not my first time consuming this literature, but a first with a full cast!
Love the diversity of the readers and the accents.
The content was very well delivered with no "narration".
At times though, it was confusing to keep track of who was talking in multi-person conversations.
As a first time read, I might not recommend, but definitely an immensely enjoyable return to the series after a few years.

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Colonel Graff's Game

It's the same story, but mostly from the perspective of Colonel Graff and friends, and they spend half the book justifying and explaining everything that happens. Slows down the story a lot. But it's still interesting for longtime fans

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Great but skipped the best parts

Great book but they skipped over all the regular battles that are the best part of the original book because they aren't important for the storyline.

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Fun- but read the original first

A fun take on Enders Gam, but something is lost with no internal monologue. Worth listening to, but read or listen to the original first.

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Magnificent story, production hmm

I've loved Ender's Game for years, so was keen to see the new audible cast take on it. The story was reworked well to fit into an audiodrama, I just battled with Ender's voice, it starts with him as at year old, and that got a little lost I found.

I really didn't appreciate the minute long music pieces between chapters, especially when there are no chapter markers so you can't jump back etc. I've never listened to an audible where there are no chapters to speak of... a little difficult to jump back if you lost focus.

but the story is intriguing as always

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Excellent

A brilliant book with a cast performance worthy of the novel. If you’ve already read it then this is great new experience. If you haven’t read it then... what’s wrong with you!? :)

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Continuously engaged

It was easy to see everything in your head as you listened to it.

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Not the orignal but still great!

This is a great retelling of the story. It differs from the book only in the small details. The cast is does a good job! If they could have used this script to make the movie it would have been so much better

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A New Way to Experience my favorite book.

Lots of reviews seem to complain about how this is not like the book. It isn't. It is just another way to experience the book.

listen to it and enjoy.

The only thing I found annoying was the accents. I thought the French taught English, the international language, once the French accent is set. Most other nations do not have an accent because of the standard.

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Excellent

This is one of my favorite books and this was an absolutely excellent rendition. I really liked

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