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Children Of The Mind: Volume Four of the Ender Saga [Paperback]

Orson Scott Card (Author)
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Publication Date: 2 Dec 1999 | Series: Ender Saga (Book 4)

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once again the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.

Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world. Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves.

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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (2 Dec 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1857239547
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857239546
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 17.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 232,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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)

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 t (David Langford, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW)
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing extraordinary 26 Aug 2001
By A Customer
Format: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.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars A real disappointment 7 Dec 2003
By B. Patterson
Format: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.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Not a patch on enders game 21 Aug 2008
By A. Lynn
Format: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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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Its Ender Saga, what do you think its gonna be?
While this book wasn't as good as Ender's Game in my opinion, it still provided a good end to the series (sorry for spoilers) and is definitely worth a read (but only after you've... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ben Johnson
3.0 out of 5 stars the end... for me
Hello,
i did enjoy reading the saga, but this last was a bit disappointing. I do not like too much when the autor throw at you a "deus ex machina" the "outside" ... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Follinverno
2.0 out of 5 stars `There is always, always more to learn.'
The Starways Congress is shutting down the net, world by world, and has gathered a fleet to destroy the planet Lusitania. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2011 by J. Cameron-Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars A good end to the series.
This is a very intelligent book taking all the themes from the previous books and expanding on some and clarifying others while adding new ideas. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2010 by plot hound
3.0 out of 5 stars Not up to the standard of the first novel
A little less rambling than the first one, but I would still much prefer the storyline to be tighter rather than giving way to the self indulgent waffling from the author that... Read more
Published on 13 Oct 2010 by Yvonne N
5.0 out of 5 stars Reinvigorating my love of Sci Fi
I thoroughly enjoyed this final volume of the Ender Saga. The socio-economic and humanitarian areas covered in this series seemed so much more varied and in depth than other books... Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2010 by ozdaveuk
5.0 out of 5 stars It is a great book. A marvelous finale.
I don't really understand why there are so many bad reviews of this book. Yes, Ender is not the protagonist anymore, ok. Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2010 by Sergio M. Martín Rodríguez
3.0 out of 5 stars This is the end, Beautiful friend.
Children of the Mind, as you will know by now, is the final instalment of the Ender Saga. The first of the books ENDERS GAME was a top notch space opera adventure tale, a rights... Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2008 by Mr. P. Rigby
2.0 out of 5 stars Enders Lame
Summary:- Being all really oh so clever and knowing loads about science, the good guys who really are so nice that they are about as believable as Mary Poppins, become almost... Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2005 by Nang
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect ending...
A direct segue from Xenocide and one that sustains the pace from the end of that book. The emphasis is mostly shifted away from the leads in the previous novels and onto Ender's... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2000
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