Ender in Exile
- 400
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Ender in Exile” is a book for committed Ender readers, filling the gap after “Ender’s Game” and tying up threads left hanging elsewhere. It presumes the earlier novels, and its interest lies in the characters and how they change more than in the plot; some readers find it short on suspense, with much time given to discussing plans. Some are let down by the ending.
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About the book
Ender in Exile is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, part of the Ender's Game series, published on November 11, 2008. It takes place between the two award-winning novels Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. It could also be considered a parallel novel to the first three sequels in the Shadow Saga, since the entirety of this trilogy takes place in the span of Ender in Exile. The novel concludes a dangling story line of the Shadow Saga, while it makes several references to events that take place during the Shadow Saga. From yet another perspective, the novel expands the last chapter of the original novel Ender's Game. On the one hand, it fills the gap right before the last chapter, and on the other hand, it fills the gap between the last chapter and the original (first) sequel. Ender in Exile begins one year after Ender has won the bugger war, and begins with the short story "Ender's Homecoming" from Card's webzine Intergalactic Medicine Show. Other short stories that were published elsewhere are included as chapters of the novel.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 316 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 68% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 25 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 291 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is Ender in Exile?
It has 400 pages — shorter than 61% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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