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Nach den Ereignissen in Ender's Game ist eines klar: Ender Wiggin muss die Erde verlassen. Er hat nicht nur ein Spiel gewonnen, er hat eine ganze Rasse vernichtet und so die Erde gerettet - er ist ein Held. Der Zwölfjährige beschließt, seine Heimatwelt zu verlassen. Begleitet wird er auf seiner langen relativistischen Reise von seiner Schwester Valentine und dem was einmal die künstliche Intelligenz Jane werden sollte. Die Geschichte der Jahre die nun folgten, ist nie erzählt worden - bis zum heutigen Tag...
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel
Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into the Ender Saga, which chronicles the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, which follows on the novel
Ender's Shadow and is set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, which tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien "Buggers." Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977--the short story "Gert Fram" in the July issue of
The Ensign, and the novelette version of "Ender's Game" in the August issue of
Analog. The novel-length version of
Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.
Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.
He is the author many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series "The Tales of Alvin Maker" (beginning with
Seventh Son), and stand-alone novels like
Pastwatch and
Hart's Hope. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like
Empire and historical novels like the monumental
Saints and the religious novels
Sarah and
Rachel and Leah. Card's work also includes the Mithermages books (
Lost Gate,
Gate Thief), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old.
Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card. He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.
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This science fiction phenomenon takes place between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.
