Children of the Mind

Orson Scott Card

ISBN 10: 1435234995 ISBN 13: 9781435234994

Publisher: Paw Prints 2008-04-11, 2008

Synopsis

With this conculsion to his famous "Ender's Saga", Card returns to the story of Ender Wiggin, hero of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game, Soeaker for the Dead, and Xenocide. Now hos adopted world, Lusitania, is theatened by the same planet-destroying weapon that he himself used so many years before. Only Jane, the computer intelligence that has evolved with him over 3,000 yearsm can save the three sentient races of Lusitania.

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Review

Children of the Mind, fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book, Xenocide. The author unravels Ender's life and reweaves the threads into unexpected new patterns, including an apparent reincarnation of his threatening older brother, Peter, not to mention another "sister" Valentine. Multiple storylines entwine, as the threat of the Lusitania-bound fleet looms ever nearer. The self-aware computer, Jane, who has always been more than she seemed, faces death at human hands even as she approaches godhood. At the same time, the characters hurry to investigate the origins of the descolada virus before they lose their ability to travel instantaneously between the stars. There is plenty of action and romance to season the text's analyses of Japanese culture and the flux and ebb of civilizations. But does the author really mean to imply that Ender's wife literally bores him to death? --Brooks Peck

About the Author

Orson Scott Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for Ender’s Game and then for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina.   Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card’s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier’s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Earphones Award.  She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.   John Rubinstein made his debut as the title role in Bob Fosse’s Pippin. He is a skillful, AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator who has read works by Jonathan Kellerman, Orson Scott Card, Tom Clancy, and Gabriel Brownstein. Rubinstein is also a successful actor and has acted in the films Jekyll, Choose Conner, The Truth About Layla, and 21 Grams.  His television credits include The Young and the Restless, Greek, Desperate Housewives, Day Break, Criminal Minds, Cold Case, CSI and Law & Order. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Paw Prints 2008-04-11
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1435234995
• ISBN 13: 9781435234994
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English