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Children Of The Mind

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2nd May 2013

Price: £8.99

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780356501871

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Achieves and delivers more than almost anything else within the science fiction genre, Ender’s Game is a contemporary classic – New York Times

‘Card’s prose is powerful here, as is his consideration of mystical and quasi-religious themes. Though billed as the final Ender novel, this story leaves enough mysteries unexplored to justify another entry; and Card fans should find that possibility, like this novel, very welcome indeed.’ – Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Children of the Mind

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once again the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.

Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world. Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender’s children must save her if they are to save themselves.

The dazzling Ender series, which has changed the face of science fiction, concludes.

Books by Orson Scott Card:

Alvin Maker novels
Seventh Son
Red Prophet
Prentice Alvin
Alvin Journeyman
Heartfire
The Crystal City

Ender Wiggin Saga
Ender’s Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender in Exile

Homecoming
The Memory of the Earth
The Call of the Earth
The Ships of the Earth
Earthfall
Earthborn

First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens

Reviews

NEW YORK TIMES on ENDER’S GAME
Achieves and delivers more than almost anything else within the science fiction genre, Ender's Game is a contemporary classic
THE HOUSTON POST
The best writer science fiction has to offer.
MAGILL BOOK REVIEWS
Hugo and Nebula-award winner Orson Scott Card demonstrates again that he belongs in the company of such older masters of science fiction as Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Ursula K. Le Guin.
BOOKLIST on ENDER’S GAME
Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superhuman and interstellar war . . . and, with superb characterisation, pacing and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power
INTERZONE on ENDER’S GAME
Some of the most hauntingly brilliant writing of the decade