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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... read more
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The third book 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... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Andrew Wiggin: Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin. The protagonist, formerly a child warrior and something of a religious figure, he continues to atone for his sins by influencing relations between three sentient species inhabiting the same planet. married to Novinha, sister to Valentine, brother of Peter, Author of The Hive Queen and the Hegemon, Author of Life of Human, Speaker for the Dead, Ender the Xenocide
- Valentine Wiggin: Ender's sister; also Demosthenes (known to few people)
- Jane: A conscious mind alive in the ansible network.
- Miro Ribeira: Marcos Vladimir Ribeira von Hesse. Novinha's eldest child. Xenobiologist of the Lusitania Colony who and spent 30 years in space travel to meet Valentine Wiggin and return to the colony. Young and crippled Miro is still however very intelligent and can speak to Jane through a jewel implanted in his ear.
- Grego Ribeira: Gerão Gregorio Ribeira von Hesse. Novinha's youngest child. Physicist on the Lusitania Colony.
- Novinha: Xenobiologist on the Lusitania Colony and daughter of Os Venerados, the xenobiologists who first learned to combat the descolada. Widow of Marcao Ribeira and now the wife of Andrew Wiggin. Mother of Miro, Ela, Quim, Olhado, Quara, Grego Ribeira.
- Warmaker: A fathertree in another forest
- Ouanda Saavedra: Miro's half-sister.
- Han Qing-jao: Godspoken girl from the Taoist planet Path.
- Demosthenes: Pseudonym used by Valentine Wiggin a political dissident.
- Si Wang-mu: Qing-jao's secret maid. Named for the Holy Mother of the West
- Rooter: A fathertree planted in the book Speaker for the Dead.
- 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
- Pipo (Joao Figueria Alvarez): Xenologer on the planet of Lusitania Colony
- Syfte: Eldest daughter of Valentine and Jakt
- Olhado (Lauro Suleimao Riberia): Child of Novinha. Blinded at a young age the boy has synthetic metal eyes which can be directly connected to a computer for data dumping.
- Han Fei-tzu: A Godspoken man born on the taoist planet Path.
- Ela (Ekaterina Elanora Ribeira von Hesse): Daughter of Novinha. A Xenobiologist of the Lusitania Colony under her mother.
- Kovano Zeljezo: Mayor of the Lusitania Colony
- Nimbo: Young boy who is the son of Olhado Ribeira.
- Plikt: Scientist / historian born on the planet Trondheim who has studied the life of the original Speaker for the Dead as well as the life of Ender the Xenocide to a point of near obsession. A friend and colleague to Valentine Wiggins.
- Father Estevão: Priest of the Lusitania Colony's Catholic church. Son of Novinha born Estevao Rei Ribeira known to his family as Quim which is pronounced similar to the word king.
- Bishop Peregrino: Catholic Bishop of the Lusitania Colony.
- Lini: Olhado's wife Jaqueline is known by the knickname Lini to Olhado whose given name is Lauro.
- Mistress Qing-jao: Godspoken girl on Path
- Jaqueline: The wife of Olhado (Lauro) Ribeira.
- Ju Kung-mei: The guardian of the Han household. Essentially the house manager.
- Peter Wiggin: Ender's brother; the original Hegemon
- Quara (Lembraanca das Milagres de Jesus) Ribeira: Xenobiologist of the Lusitania Colony. Daughter of Novinha. Sister of Ela.
- Libo Figueira: Xenologer of the Lusitania Colony. Lover to Novinha. Died in previous book Speaker for the Dead by the piggies.
- Master Ho: Quing-Jao's Father, person on Path
- Father Quim: Add a description of this character.
- Mayor Kovano: Mayor of Lusitania
- Planter: Pequenino assistant to Andrew Wiggin who is the Speaker for the Dead.
- Glass: Pequenino scientist
- Hive Queen: The last Bugger Hive Queen living on the planet Lusitania.
- Marcão: The first husband of Novinha Ribeira
- Keikoa Amaauka
- Royal Mother
- Val: short for Valerie, Demosthenes, Ender's sister
- Lars
- Li Qing-jao
- Varsam
- Ela: xenologer
- Ender Wiggin: Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin, The Wiggin, Speaker for the Dead, Author of The Hive Queen and the Hegemon, Author of Life of Human, married to Novinah, sister to Valerie, brother to Peter
- Hegemon Locke: pseudonyms for Peter
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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“She (Plikt) believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxiesties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.”
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“Happiness can depend as easily on useless thing as on useful ones.”
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“The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. Maybe I could have been content. Maybe not.”
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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.”
Andrew Wiggin
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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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<I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that’s what faith is.> <Or deliberate insanity.>
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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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Organizations edit
- Children of the Mind: A group of religious people living on Lusitainia.
- The Hundred Worlds: The worlds under command of the hegemon
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"
- descolada: virus that is fatal to humans and buggers, but is depended on by the pequinos
- recolada: designed disease to combet the descolada
- buggers: name for the the Hive Queen and her workers
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 5 in The Ender Quartet. (standard series)
Preceded by Speaker for the Dead, and followed by Children of the Mind.
This is book 3 of 15 in Enderverse. (universe)
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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