Ender in Exile

[enderwiggin]

Published twelve years after Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile revisits Ender's life between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. Chapter 15 of Ender's Game is further fleshed out, and we meet Randall Firth who helps connect the story to the Shadow series. Although storywise it takes place after EG and before SftD, there are numerous allusions to the Shadow series, so read this book after you have finished at least Shadow of the Giant.

There is also an excellent comic adaptation by Aaron Johnston that explores some of what was left out of the Ender's Game: Command School series, specifically the Hive Queen story.

Pieces of four of OSC's online short stories ("Ender's Homecoming," "A Young Man with Prospects," "Ender in Flight," and "The Gold Bug") appear throughout this novel. Each of the stories can be read in its entirety on OSC's InterGalactic Medicine Show website.

My favorite part of Ender in Exile is the relationship with Ender and Admiral Quincy Morgan. We again to see Ender's unusually quick mind at work.

[Julian Delphiki II]

<b>Spoilers</b>

I agree, the relationships between the characters, that girls mom and her, her mom and the admiral, the girl and her attempt at Ender...all are a good read...and the way he subtly works around the Admiral and plays him like a cheap violin in the last 10 pages, that was really fantastic...

[Peter W]

I was a bit disappointed with the Randall Firth plot line.
For someone who has Bean's genius genes, he did not come across as very intuitive at all; for him as a 16 year old to still hold the blinding rage against all that were against his "father" didn't seem to fit.

[Julian Delphiki II]

Peter, although it was a little disappointing, at the same time, having Bean's intelligence helped him, but having the nurture of the mother drew it back, Bean was so naturally intelligent because he'd been using his out of necessity, Randall didn't have that which made him sloppy...the Ender in Exile book made me happy in so many ways...I just wish for a whole series that covered Ender between Shakespear colony to Lusitania..

[enderwiggin]

Completely agree about Randall Firth's lack of genius or intuition. His character seemed more off than he should have been considering all of his circumstances.