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Ender’s Game Alive Released Today

Ender’s Game Alive, a six-hour audioplay written by Orson Scott Card and voiced by a full cast of vocal actors, is out today on Amazon and Audible.

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.

If you are not an Audible customer, you can listen to Ender’s Game Alive for free with a 30-day trial membership.

October 22, 2013
Countdown to NovEnder Day 21: Orson Scott Card Autographed Copy of Ender’s World

Only 11 day to go, Launchies! Today we’ve got a pretty cool prize thanks to the nice folks over at Smart Pop Books: a copy of Ender’s World autographed by Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card.

This giveaway is open worldwide and includes some Ender’s World pins as well.

How to Enter

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You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours of receiving an email from EnderWiggin.net. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.

For today’s comment, tell us which of the original Ender Quartet is your favorite book: Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, or Children of the Mind?

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October 21, 2013
Countdown to NovEnder Day 9: Ender’s Game Companion Book

It’s been a truly CRAZY day for Ender’s Game fans with tons of new images, video, and more coming out. And it’s probably only going to get crazier, Launchies!

But in the meantime, we’ve got a great prize for you guys for today’s Countdown to NovEnder. Insight Editions, who will be releasing their film companion book Ender’s Game: Inside the World of an Epic Adventure next week on October 15 (pre-order it here) has donated a copy of the book for today’s giveaway.

This giveaway is open worldwide.

How to Enter

Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway.

You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.

For today’s giveaway, tell us if you’ll be reading this book before seeing the movie.

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October 9, 2013
Countdown to NovEnder Day 7: Ender’s Game Movie Tie-in Edition

It’s now 25 days to Ender’s Game and our friends across the pond had an exciting night at the Ender’s Game Q&A in London! Watch for a write-up from EnderWiggin.net staffer Joni soon.

In the meantime, it’s Day 7 of our Countdown to NovEnder and today we’re giving away a copy of the Ender’s Game movie tie-in edition thanks to Tor/Macmillan. This giveaway is open to the US and Canada.

How to Enter

Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway.

You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.

For today’s giveaway, simply comment and tell us whether you plan to re-read the book before the movie or if you’re going in as-is. Or, if you haven’t read the book yet, do you plan to read it before seeing it on the big screen?

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October 7, 2013
Win a Copy of Ender’s Game (Movie Tie-In) with Goodreads!

Goodreads is giving away 10 copies of the movie tie-in edition of Ender’s Game (see above). Enter HERE to win one! The giveaway is US only. Entries can be submitted for another 28 days.

Go get it!

October 1, 2013
Insight Editions to Debut ‘Ender’s Game’ Book at New York Comic Con

Insight Editions, the publisher for Ender’s Game: Inside the World of an Epic Adventure, has announced that they will be attending New York Comic Con and we have confirmed that that the Ender’s Game book will be among some of the many titles that they are debuting at their booth. While no copies will be for sale, attendees will be able to view advance copies on display.

You can follow their blog here.

The book is set to be released on October 15, 2013.

September 25, 2013
The Weekly Ender #11

Remember that PSiO video I posted about with Khylin and Aramis? The company contacted me and sent me a loaner to try. Watch and find out just what these glasses are!

This one is from a couple weeks ago, so if you see Weekly Ender #12 out really soon, it’s because I’m catching up on posting! 🙂

September 16, 2013
Orbit Books Releases UK ‘Ender’s Game’ Movie Tie-in Cover

Orbit Books, the UK publisher for Ender’s Game has released the brand new movie tie-in cover for the book. The new edition will go on sale October 3, 2013 and can be pre-ordered on Amazon. If you compare this book cover to the newly released international one-sheet, you can see there’s a slight change in the center. There are no formic ships on this poster, they’ve instead been replaced with human fighter planes.

September 12, 2013
New Movie Tie-In Books: ‘Ender’s Game’ Cover and Box Set

Although there’s already a movie tie-in cover for Ender’s Game, TOR Books will be releasing the movie tie-in edition with an updated cover to be available October 1.

This new Ender’s Game movie tie-in edition features the final one sheet with the soldier facing forward.

In addition, Barnes & Noble has updated their movie tie-in box set items with a photo of the box! Looks pretty cool! This set includes Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon. This can be pre-ordered on Amazon as well.

But wait, there’s more! They also have a separate box set that includes Ender’s Game, Ender in Exile, and Speaker for the Dead. Pre-order from Amazon.

September 6, 2013
FANSITE EXCLUSIVE: ‘Ender’s Game: Inside the World of an Epic Adventure’

Here’s some seriously cool news for you Launchies! Publisher Insight Editions will be releasing a companion book for the Ender’s Game movie titled Ender’s Game: Inside the World of an Epic Adventure. Your fansites are here to unveil the cover for the new book, due out sometime before the movie’s release!

Read the official description for the book below:

Based on the best-selling novel, Ender’s Game tells the thrilling story of the fight to save the world from a devastating future. Now, in this official companion volume, the behind-the-scenes world of the film is brought into stunning focus.

Following an attack by an alien race known as the Formics—narrowly countered thanks only to the efforts of legendary war hero Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley)—Earth has been preparing itself for the next wave in the conflict. The fate of humanity lies in finding the next Mazer from a crop of the brightest young minds on the planet. Under the watchful eye of the International Fleet, the venerated Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) has been tasked with overseeing their training. Before long, a standout emerges among them: Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy but prodigiously talented misfit. His potential discovered, Ender is promoted to Command School, where he will soon find the war with the Formics to be more complex than he could have ever imagined.

Packed with in-depth interviews, removable posters and army badges, stunning concept art, unparalleled access to the visual effects archives at Digital Domain, and countless full-color images, this insightful insider’s view of the making of Ender’s Game will bring fans closer into the world of the movie, following cast and crew as it is brought to dazzling life.

Also featuring Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) as Petra Arkanian, Viola Davis (The Help) as Major Gwen Anderson, and Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) as Ender’s brilliant older sister, Valentine.

Jed Alger is the author of The Art and Making of ParaNorman. An advertising writer and creative director with more than twenty years of experience, he has worked on some of the biggest, most challenging brands in the world—Google, Twitter, IBM, Microsoft, Starbucks, Target, Electronic Arts, and Hewlett-Packard among them. Jed graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in philosophy and received his MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award–winning foreign language film Tsotsi. He is also the director of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, among several other films.

For those of you that don’t care about spoilers, this sounds like heavenly access to the making of the film. For those of you that are afraid of seeing too much, you may want to buy it and leave it unopened until you see the movie! I know that when the Hunger Games companion books came out people got upset with themselves for not being able to resist looking at all the imagery.

You can pre-order the book on Amazon.com for $32.95 or at Barnes & Noble for $33.61.

Many thanks to Summit for giving us the chance to unveil the cover!

August 27, 2013
VIDEO: Gavin Hood On Making Ender’s Game an Unusual YA Movie

Another wonderful interview with Ender’s Game director Gavin Hood! I have to say, the more of these I see, the more excited I get for this movie. Gavin talks to MoviesDotCom about making Ender’s Game a Young Adult movie (PG-13!) that doesn’t talk down to kids, how he tried to incorporate epic scifi elements as well as the intimate character story, why he cut Locke and Demosthenes, and his stance on possible sequels.

Source: MoviesDotComOfficial on Youtube

August 13, 2013
Gavin Hood On the “Queer Irony” of Ender’s Game

In the ongoing debate about Orson Scott Card’s anti-gay stance and the Skip-Ender’s-Game boycott, Gavin Hood has weighed in again in an interview with The Advocate, one of America’s leading LGBT news magazines. The article focuses on the fact that Card’s views seem in many ways to be the polar opposite of what the book is about and stresses the parallels between Ender’s experience and the experience of young gay people everywhere of having to reconcile the way they are with the values and beliefs of their loved ones. Says Gavin Hood:

The story of Ender is really a young person in search of his identity and in search of his own moral compass. And so for me, it is so ironic that the writer of the work that has helped so many [young] people, gay and straight, to find empowerment, to feel empowered, to find their own moral compass — it’s very sad that he, himself, is struggling with these issues. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that in struggling with these issues, he wrote a great book.

But while it may be ironic, Hood does not seem to be surprised by the discrepancy.

Frankly, that’s not unusual. Great art usually rises above the weaknesses and failings of its creators.

Repeating a sentiment that we have previously heard from producer Bob Orci, Hood goes on to voice his support for the current debate, saying that while he understands the boycotters’ stance, he would rather they watch the movie and use the difference between Card’s views and the messages of the book as a starting point to engage in a fruitful debate about LGBT issues.

[W]e would not be having this conversation if we hadn’t made Ender’s Game, and that’s the way you change societies, when you engage in meaningful conversation. So I’m thrilled we’re having this conversation […] And wouldn’t it be amazing if we could turn this thing into what the book is really about? […] As stressful as this is, it’s achieving, in a twisted way, exactly what we set out to do [namely tell a story about compassion and embracing difference – my note].

While quite a few reader comments on this article are unsurprisingly disparaging I am very pleased to see that a leading LGBT news outlet such as The Advocate is acknowledging the complexity of the issue and voicing a positive attitude towards the book and its positive message of tolerance and compassion.

Read the entire article HERE!

Source: The Advocate

August 5, 2013
VIDEO: Harrison Ford Talks Working With Asa Butterfield

During Comic Con, Popsugar managed to catch Harrison Ford for a tiny one-question interview. Watch what he had to say about the young cast in general and Asa Butterfield in particular.

Source: Popsugar

July 30, 2013