One of the most popular sci-fi books of all time is the Ender’s Game series by Orson Scott Card. It is rare that a novel as popular as Ender’s Game gets a proper sequel. But that is exactly what Scott did. Keep reading to find learn about Ender’s Game series book order and guide!
Both novels in the series won the Nebula Award for best novel and the Hugo Award for the best novel. These are the two biggest awards in science fiction, solidying the novels’ places as two of the best sci-fi novels of all time. If you are interested in reading the novels or revisiting them, you can see the full list below.
Ender’s Game Series Book Order and Guide
- Ender’s Game
- Speaker For the Dead
- Xenocide
- Children of the Mind
- A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (novella)
- Ender in Exile
Ender’s Game
In an unspecified date in the future, the human race is at war with an alien race called the Formics and referred to as “buggers”. The buggers attacked planet Earth 70 years ago and lost in the second invasion. Now, the I.F, short for International Fleet, is In search of the next commander who can defeat the buggers in the upcoming war.
Six-year-old Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is a “Third” which means he was the third child born into the Wiggin family and normally, families can only have two children at most. Ender’s two older siblings Valentine and Peter and he were all raised with the hopes of becoming the next commander. After his two siblings failed to meet the requirements, Ender passes after passing a morality-based tests.
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Speaker For The Dead
After the ending of Ender’s Game, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin and his sister travel from planet to planet and try to find the perfect place to revive the Hive Queen and her alien race. They have settled on a planet and Valentine is about to give birth. But another planet has requested a Speaker for the Dead and Ender has decided to travel to this faraway planet to help someone that reminds him of his former self.
On Lusitania, the humans exist along with the Pequeninos, an alien race that is pig-like and the inhibitors of the planet. Pipo, his thirteen-year-old son Libo, and Novinha, a thirteen-year-old xenobiologist study the Pequeninos to try to understand them. They are however not allowed to interfere with them or show them human technology.
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Xenocide
To Be Completed.
Children of the Mind
To Be Completed.
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (novella)
To Be Completed.
Ender in Exile
To Be Completed.
Conclusion
The series contains five books and one novella. So far, we have read and reviewed two of them. More will be updated soon. Ender’s Game series book order and guide will help you read all the books in the series in the right order as well as provide insight to the series by Scott.
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