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With Children of the Mind, Card returns to the story of Ender Wiggin: hero of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game, the original Speaker for the Dead, and the hated Xenocide who murdered an entire planet. Now his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying... read more
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Summary edit
4th in the Ender Series (final book)
The Starways Congress is shutting down the net world-by-world, and Jane is beginning to lose her memory. To survive, she has to find a way to transfer her soul to a human body.
Peter and Wang-Mu are trying to convince others to influence the... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Andrew Wiggin: (aka Ender) Main character, emotional guy that saves everything, a man who still tries to find love from a possibly loveless person, still wants to get his " sins " repented
- Peter Wiggin: A child of Ender's mind, modeled after Ender's brother.
- Jane: An artificial intelligence existing within the ansible network
- Miro: Ender's stepson, and Novina's son
- Valentine Wiggin: Ender's sister. Writes under the pseudonym "Demosthenes"
- Young Val: a child of Ender's mind, modeled after his sister Valentine.
- Novinha: Xenobiologist, Ender's wife, Mother to Miro, Grego, Ela, Olhada, and Quara
- Grace Drinker: lady that helps Miro and Wang-mu on Pacifica, Malu's friend
- Grego: Ender's stepson, Novinha's son
- Plikt: Ender's faithful follower
- Malu: a wise man from Pacifica
- Marcao: Novinha's first husband. Not well-liked.
- Human: A piggy who serves as a diplomat of sorts between humans and pequeninos.
- Rooter: A piggy who provided the first real connection between humans and pequeninos.
Quotes edit
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“I'm all the more in need of good advice, since I can’t actually conceive of needing any.”
Peter Wiggin -
“All our rationalities are invented to justify what we were going to do anyway before we thought of any reasons.”
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“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”
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“That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very very good.”
Si Wang-Mu -
“There ar too many of us all. But never enough.”
Miro von Hesse -
“Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is what you build before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.”
Valentine Wiggin -
“History has no laws, and all patterns that we find are useful illusions.”
Si Wang-Mu -
“Even gentle people recognize that sometimes the decision not to kill is decision to die.”
Young Val -
“My greatest teacher once told me", said Yasujiro, "that a man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career had a worthless life.”
Yasurijo
Organizations edit
- Starways Congress: Interplanetary governing body.
First Sentence edit
Si Wang-mu stepped forward.
Table of Contents edit
Acknowledgments
1. I'm Not Myself
2. You Don't Believe in God
3. There Are Too Many of Us
4. I Am a Man of Perfect Simplicity!
5. Nobody Is Rational
6. Life Is a Suicide Mission
7. I Offer Her This Poor Old Vessel
8. What Matters Is Which Fiction You Believe
9. It Smells Like Life to Me
10. This Has Always Been Your Body
11. You Called Me Back from Darkness
12. Am I Betraying Ender?
13. Till Death Ends All Surprises
14. How They Communicate with Animals
15. We're Giving You a Second Chance
16. How Do You Know They Aren't Quivering in Terror?
17. The Road Goes On Without Him Now
Afterword
Themes & Symbolism edit
- Life and Death: In some sense, death and coping with death are the theme of the entire series. In Xenocide and Children of the Mind, physical bodies are created and souls transferred in a quest to escape the eventual loss of the soul unanchored to a human body.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 4 of 6 in Ender's Game. (standard series)
Preceded by Xenocide, and followed by A War of Gifts.
This is book 4 of 14 in Enderverse. (universe)
Preceded by Xenocide, and followed by Ender's Shadow.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Orson Scott Card (Author)
Other Contributors:
- John Harris (Cover Artist)
- Carol Russo (Designer) - Cover Designer
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Tor Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 0312853955
Page Count: 349
Publisher: Tor Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 0312853955
Page Count: 349
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3553.A655 C48 1996
- Dewey: 818'.54
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