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Ladataan... First MeetingsTekijä: Orson Scott Card
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. http://pro-libertate.net/node/22 ( ) Contents vary between editions: • 2002 hardcover - First Meetings: Three Stories from the Enderverse Contents: Ender's Game [short story] -- The Polish Boy -- The Investment Counselor • 2003 hardcover - First Meetings: In the Enderverse Contents: The Polish Boy -- Teacher's Pest -- Ender's Game [short story] -- The Investment Counselor • 2004 softcover - First Meetings in Ender's Universe Contents: The Polish Boy -- Teacher's Pest -- Ender's Game [short story] -- The Investment Counselor -- Reader's Guide Publishing history of the stories: • The Polish Boy (originally published 2002 in First Meetings: Three Stories from the Enderverse) • Teacher's Pest (originally pubished 2003 in First Meetings: In the Enderverse • Ender's Game [short story] (originally published 1977 in Analog magazine) • The Investment Counselor (originally published 2000 in Far Horizons, edited by Robert Silverberg) • Reader's Guide (originally published 2004 in First Meetings in Ender's Universe) 'First Meetings' brings together 4 short stories, telling the tale of Ender Wiggin. Beginning with how Ender's father came to America, to his meeting with Ender's mother, the quartet includes the original 'Ender's Game' novella and concludes with Ender's introduction to the practice of 'Speaking for the Dead. I'd read them all before, but they are fast to read, and are a pleasant jog to the memory, pending the upcoming 2013 film. One of the categories on the 2016 Reading Challenge list was a book with a blue cover. This cover is at least blue on the back. Synopsis: John Paul is a precocious 5 year old; he's taught himself to read, and is adept at manipulating people. He is singled out to go to Battle School at a very early age, but makes a deal with the government that his parents and all of his siblings must be moved to a country where they can all attend school rather than being home-schooled. Flash forward 20 or so years: one of this children, Ender, is also a genius and is very successful in Battle School. So successful that he is in command of other children being trained to fight the Buggers. Ender is, in fact, Earth's last hope for winning the war. Flash forward a few hundred years in real time, but only a few in space time: Andrew has just turned 20 and now must pay taxes on all the revenue he has inherited from Ender. He and his sister are wandering the universe; she's writing books and he's tagging along. Andrew's only wish is to find something meaningful to do with his life, and to find a safe place for the Hive Queen (the last of the race of Buggers). Review: This book is a set of three novellas that provide the back story, as well as the original Ender's Game tale. The writing is excellent and the stories are compelling. The last novella leaves the reader wanting more - and I'm probably going to hunt up all of the novels in this series just to see what happens to the main characters. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinEnderverse (7 (short stories 7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 9.4)) Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinSisältää nämä:Ender's Game {novelette} (tekijä: Orson Scott Card) Investment Counselor (tekijä: Orson Scott Card) The Polish Boy (tekijä: Orson Scott Card) Teacher's Pest (tekijä: Orson Scott Card) Palkinnot
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Short Stories.
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HTML: Welcome to the Enderverse. When Orson Scott Card first published "Ender's Game" as a novella in 1977, few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. Expanded into a novel in 1985, Ender's Game won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Never out of print and translated into dozens of languages, it is the rare work of fiction that can truly be said to have transcended a genre. Ender's Game and its sequels have won dozens of prestigious awards and are as popular today among teens and young readers as adults. First Meetings is an audiobook collection of three novellas-plus the original "Ender's Game"-that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. "The Polish Boy" begins in the wake between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin-the future father of Ender -they believe they may have found their man. Or boy. In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection-a brilliant but insufferably arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now an American university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student named Theresa Brown. It is many years since the end of the Bugger Wars in "The Investment Counselor." Ender's reputation as a hero and savior has suffered a horrible reversal. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive. Until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender's Shadow series The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Ender novellas Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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