Children Of The Mind: Ender Series, book 4 (Ender 4)
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Orson Scott Card's SF career began with Ender's Game, a 1977 story expanded into an acclaimed 1985 novel. Unwittingly responsible for xenocide--destruction of an alien species--while still a boy, Ender expiates his guilt on another world in Speaker for the Dead. This confronts humanity with a deadly alien-built virus whose elimination seems to demand another xenocide. The tense continuing story takes an extraordinary leap into magical metaphysics at the climax of Xenocide, of which Children of the Mind is in effect the second half. Though that virus is now defeated, this isn't believed: the planet-eating doomsday weapon still approaches. Ender's AI friend Jane, who inhabits the galactic net and is the only agency that can move spacecraft faster than light, is being killed by dismantling the net. Ender himself is fading, passing responsibility to strange young avatars of his dead brother and aging sister created from his memories in Xenocide. Even in the shadow of death there are grippingly argued political, philosophical and moral debates--plus bitter family quarrels. A master storyteller with a knack for showing painful human relationships, Card achieves almost unbearable suspense before resolving his complex tangle and finishing Ender's 3000-year story with a touching elegy. One dangling plot line suggests that Card may return again to this universe. Solid, high-quality SF despite some implausible science. --David Langford
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'Haunting, compulsive, urgently readable...Story-telling genius' INTERZONE 'Card's prose is powerful' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'Full of surprises...Intense is the word for Orson Scott Card's ENDER'S GAME' NEW YORK TIMES
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing extraordinary,
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This review is from: Children of the Mind (The Ender saga) (Paperback)
After reading the first three novels of the Ender Saga, this, as as the finale to the range, was rather dissapointing. Unlike the other books of the series, Ender Wiggin hardly features in this book, apart from the first few chapters. As the back cover explains, Jane--the artificial lifeform--is able to travel "outside" of space-time. At first this was interesting and exciting, but after the Nth time, it merely became annoying. Also, the book has drifted from the philosophical roots of the previous books, and instead this book concentrates more on the "mystical" and spiritual elements which, again, just became tedious. If you feel obliged to read this novel due to the high quality of the other books in the series, think twice, for it's not essential.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A real disappointment,
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This review is from: Children of the Mind (The Ender saga) (Paperback)
Having waited years for the end of the Ender/Speaker series, this was a let down. I got the impression that Uncle Orson knew he had to finish the series - but didn't really know how to do it. So he throws some completely over the top ideas into the pot and ....If you've read the rest, you probably need to read this for completion - but don't expect to be wildly impressed. When he's hot OSC is the best - but on this occaision he fluffed it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not a patch on enders game,
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This review is from: Children of the Mind (The Ender saga) (Paperback)
I got the feeling OSC tried to string out every detail of the story just so he could fit another x number of pages in. Un-needed and contradictory, parts of the story soon became tedious and over wrought. The characters became unlikeable, whiney and selfish with very few of them knowing their own mind. The parts that were good soon became mired down among all the various over-winded parts of the plot. Trying to tie up the book with references from the prophet of path was just daft. What on earth has he done to the original Ender? - Barmy, take a great character and destroy him with voodoo.
In my opinion a poor book from OSC - having read the tales of Alvin Maker and then the most excellent Enders Game, he has gone from the top of Sci-fi writing to the has-beens in a short space of time. I just wish he would stop trying to preach religion in his books, the references are just getting annoying and he seems to be trying to shoe them in all over the place. Please get back to what your good at Orson.
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