Ender in Exile is Orson Scott Card’s moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one never forgot. Taking place 3000 years before Ender finally receives his chance at redemption in Speaker for the Dead, this is the long-lost story of Ender.įor twenty-three years, millions of readers have wondered and now they will receive the answers. Ender in Exile is Orson Scott Cards moving return to all the action and the adventure, the profound exploration of war and society, and the characters one. What happened during the years between Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead? What did Ender go through from the ages of 12 through 35? The story of those years has never been told. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home he’s ever known to begin a relativistic-and revelatory-journey beyond the stars. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for years-where do they go now? What can they do?Įnder fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. Ender reveals how he is ready and prepared to be the governor the moment he starts talking to everyone in the crowd. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life.Īfter the life-changing events of those years, these children-now teenagers-must leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth.

In Ender’s Game, the world’s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender's Game.

Ender in exile