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First Meetings is a 2002 collection of Orson Scott Card's short stories from the Ender's Game series. The book contains: The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...
The Enders Game Series (or simply Ender Series) is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card, started with the short story Enders Game, which was later expanded into the novel Enders Game. ...
- "Ender's Game" (1977)
- "The Polish Boy" (2002)
- "Investment Counselor" (1999)
- "Teacher's Pest" (2003)
The 2003 edition published by Tor Books (which has been retitled First Meetings in the Enderverse and in Ender's Universe) also includes "Teacher's Pest", about the first meeting of Ender's parents. Enders Game (1985) is the best-known novel by Orson Scott Card. ...
Tor Books is an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC which publishes popular fiction, and is particularly noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. ...
Stories
Investment Counselor In this story, 400 years have passed since the end of the Formic War. Ender has just turned 20 and has inherited all his assets from the pension fund that he received at the end of the war. It seems he needs to pay massive taxes on them. He is about to be cheated by a greedy tax accountant when he meets Jane, who comes to him in the form of junk mail (seemingly a piece of humor on her part). She helps him with his taxes. Andrew Ender Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Cards science fiction story Enders Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Enders Shadow. ...
In Orson Scott Cards Ender series, Jane is an artificial sentience thought to exist within the ansible network by which spaceships and planets communicate instantly across galactic distances. ...
She also prevents the tax accountant from exposing Andrew's identity as the Ender Wiggin, which Ender now fears because it has been discovered the Formics meant no harm; his name has been vilified as the one who committed the Xenocide (complete destruction of a sentient race) of the Formics.
At Jane's suggestion, Ender becomes an itinerant Speaker for the Dead, and his long friendship with Jane begins. Speaker for the Dead (1986) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and a sequel to the novel Enders Game. ...
The Polish Boy In this story, John Paul is five, and is interviewed by two International Fleet officers, who believe he is exceptionally intelligent. It tells of the struggle of his family, with many other Catholic Poles, in resisting the Hegemon's population control rules. Eventually, he agrees to go with them to Battle School, if he can have his family moved to the USA and promoted back to normal, compliant status. The International Fleet (I.F. or IF) is a fictional space military organization in the Enders Game series by Orson Scott Card created to protect Earth from the alien Formics. ...
Population control is the practice of limiting population increase, usually by reducing the birth rate. ...
In the science fiction novel Enders Game and its sequels, by Orson Scott Card, Battle School was a military academy in Earth orbit. ...
He has no intention of going to Battle School. However, Graff allows him to leave, hoping that he will marry someone else who is very smart and produce brillant children to become the commanders to save the world from the Formics.
This story contains younger versions of important characters in the Enderverse, such as Hyrum Graff and Admiral Chamrajnagar. Other characters associated with the IF appear, including one Captain Helena Rudolf and a one Colonel Sillian. The Enders Game Series (or simply Ender Series) is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card, started with the short story Enders Game, which was later expanded into the novel Enders Game. ...
Hyrum Graff is a fictional character written about by Orson Scott Card, in several of his Ender and Shadow books. ...
Admiral Chamrajnagar is a fictional character created by Orson Scott Card for the Enders Game series of books. ...
Teacher's Pest While studying at a university in the United States, John Paul Wiggin attends a class taught by Theresa Brown on Human Communities. When John Paul realizes that she is smarter than him (a rare occurrence), he falls in love with her. John Paul Wiggin (Polish: Jan Pawel Wieczorek) is a fictional character from Orson Scott Cards Ender Series. ...
Theresa Wiggin is a fictional character from the Ender series of novels by Orson Scott Card. ...
They realize that with their combined knowledge, they could accomplish quite a lot in their world. They both feel the oppressive boot of the Hegemon upon them: John Paul for his non-compliant Catholic family; Theresa for her retired non-compliant legendary military theorist father, Admiral Brown. Hegemony is the dominance of one group over other groups, with or without the threat of force, to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; or more broadly, that cultural perspectives become skewed to favor the dominant group. ...
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