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The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at... read more
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3rd in the Ender Series
On Lusitania, Ender lives in a Brazilian Catholic colony. The other two forms of sentient life are the Hive Queen (transplanted by Ender) and the pequeninos. The ecosystem of Lusitania was ravaged many years ago by the Descolada virus, which breaks apart and... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Andrew Wiggin: (aka Ender Wiggin) The protagonist, formerly a child warrior (read "Ender's Game") and something of a prophet (read "Speaker for the Dead"), he continues to atone for his sins by influencing relations between three sentient species inhabiting the same planet.
- Valentine Wiggin: Ender's sister
- Miro: Marcos Vladimir Ribeira von Hesse. Novinha's eldest child.
- Jane: A mind in the ansible network.
- Grego: Gerão Gregorio Ribeira von Hesse. Novinha's youngest child.
- Peter Wiggin: Ender's brother
- Novinha: Ender's wife and a xenobiologist
- Warmaker: a fathertree
- Ouanda: Libo's daughter.
- Demosthenes: Valentine's online persona.
- Li Qing-jao: Daughter of Han Fei-Tzu.
- Si Wang-mu: Qing-jao's maid
- Rooter: A father tree
- Olhado: Lauro Suleimão Ribeira von Hesse. Novinha's fourth child. Blinded by a freak accident in his youth, he has replacement eyes that allow him to record (and replay) what he sees.
- Jakt: Valentine's husband
Quotes edit
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“Even if the vast majority of them are wrong, even if ninety-nine of every hundred is stupid and wrong, out of ten thousand ideas that still leaves them with a hundred good ones. That’s how they make up for being so stupid and having such short lives and small memories.”
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“We knew everything there was to know before... Now we discover that there are so many ways of knowing the same things that we'll never find them all.”
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When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn’t yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
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“I think you don’t grow up until you stop worrying about other people’s purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”
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The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”
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Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That’s when parents know the least and care the most, so they’re more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they’re right.”
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“Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.”
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<I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that’s what faith is.> <Or deliberate insanity.>
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“The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
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to stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.
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Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner’s loss.
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He wasn’t telling her what the gods were, he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. That was goodness.
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Organizations edit
- Children of the Mind: A group of religious people living on Lusitainia.
First Sentence edit
Han Fei-tzu sat in lotus position on the bare wooden floor beside his wife's sick bed.
Table of Contents edit
Acknowledgments
Pronunciation
1. A Parting
2. A Meeting
3. Clean Hands
4. Jane
5. The Lusitania Fleet
6. Varelse
7. Secret Maid
8. Miracles
9. Pinehead
10. Martyr
11. The Jade of Master Ho
12. Grego's War
13. Free Will
14. Virus Makers
15. Life and Death
16. Voyage
17. Ender's Children
18. The God of Path
Glossary edit
- Pequeninos: form of sentient life on Lusitania, also called "piggys"
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 4 in Ender's Game. (standard series)
Preceded by Speaker for the Dead, and followed by Children of the Mind.
This is book 3 of 14 in Enderverse. (universe)
Preceded by Speaker for the Dead, and followed by Children of the Mind.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Orson Scott Card (Author)
Other Contributors:
- John Harris (Cover Artist)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Tor
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0-312-85056-5
Page Count: 592
Publisher: Tor
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0-312-85056-5
Page Count: 592
Awards edit
- Hugo Award (Finalist, 1992: Best Novel)
- Locus Science Fiction Award (Finalist, 1992)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3553.A655 X46 1991
- Dewey: 813.54
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