Series: Book 0 in the Ender series
Rating: **
Tags: EN-SciFi, Lang:en
Summary
Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the
unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game -winner of the Hugo
Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel-and enter his
Universe through this collection of stories. "The Polish Boy"
is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years
between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to
recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien
invasion. They may have found their man-or boy-in John Paul
Wiggin.... In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for
this collection-a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now
a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant
graduate student. "The Investment Counselor" is set after the
end of the Bugger Wars. Banished from Earth and slandered as a
mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito
from planet to planet as a fugitive-until a blackmailing tax
inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose
Ender the Xeoncide. Also reprinted here is the original
award-winning novella, "Ender's Game," which first appeared in
1977.