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Children of the Mind (Ender Wiggins Saga) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Orson Scott Card (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books; 1st Mass Market Ed edition (1 Jun 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812522397
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812522396
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 334,017 in Books (See Bestsellers 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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing extraordinary, 26 Aug 2001
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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.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A real disappointment, 7 Dec 2003
By B. Patterson "Enders Shadow" (England) - See all my reviews
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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.

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect ending..., 5 Jan 2000
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This review is from: Children of the Mind (The Ender saga) (Paperback)
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 offspring, thus avoiding retreading too much old ground. Intelligent and satisfying (apart from the fact there is one obviously sequel-begging loose end!). Very good indeed.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not a patch on enders game
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. Read more
Published 14 months ago by A. Lynn

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 21 months ago 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 nang4

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad but could be better.
Not as good as the first two books in the series. Its a bit like Xenocide by being to preoccupied with religion and disability. Read more
Published on 18 April 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Are you raman or Varelse?
CotM is a great book, and an excellent read, it exceeds Ender's game and even Speaker. I found that the complaints of rambling are justified, but if you don't understand the... Read more
Published on 14 Jan 1998

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