Until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive. 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. 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. In John Paul Wiggin-the future father of Ender -they believe they may have found their man. '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. First Meetings is a collection of three novellas-plus the original 'Ender's Game'-that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. Ender's Game and its sequels have won dozens of prestigious awards and are as popular today among teens and young readers as adults. 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. Expanded into a novel in 1985, Ender's Game won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel. When 'Ender's Game' was first published as a novella twenty-five years ago few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. ✏First Meetings Book Summary : Welcome to the Enderverse. ENDER'S GAME: The story of Orson Scott Card's most memorable character in its powerful original novella form. However, he is recognised and blackmailed by a small-time tax collector, who threatens to expose him as Ender, the world killer. His reputation as saviour of the human race has been twisted and corrupted since the long-ago Bugger wars and he must shield his identity at all costs.
THE INVESTMENT COUNSELOR: Ender must wander incognito from world to world after banishment from earth as a mass murderer. Graduate Theresa Brown, however, may prove his match as they clash socially and intellectually. TEACHER'S PEST: John Paul Wiggin is indeed brilliant but is also an unbearably arrogant young man, now a university student. Their search for brilliant military talent reveals a potential genius in the form of young John Paul Wiggin - Ender Wiggin's father to be. ✏First Meetings In The Enderverse Book Summary : THE POLISH BOY: Following the first two 'Bugger' wars, the Hegemony is desperate to counter the alien threat, as the earth hasn't the resources to repel many more attacks.
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