false <![CDATA[First Meetings in Ender's Universe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165651978m/7957.jpg 7957 10 Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game-winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories."The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man--or boy--in John Paul Wiggin......In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection--a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student. "The Investment Counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive--until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xeoncide. Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender's Game," which first appeared in 1977. 2998370 book 2002 First Meetings in Ender's Universe total:1297|5:272|4:480|3:443|2:96|1:6| 1297 4807 1802 108 3 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 00:45:36 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 01:06:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 20:43:21 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 21:05:23 -0700 2009 1 Ender's Game is my favorite book and has been for almost 20 years. As such Orson Scott Card is one of my favorite authors, First Meetings, a collection of meetings of primary charters in the Enderverse is a good example of just how good of a writer Card is. ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 07:25:24 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 07:37:59 -0700 2009 1 Ender's Game. Overall, I found it a good read, though I enjoyed some of the stories enormously more than others.

One of my favorites was Mazer in Prison w...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 04:58:36 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 05:23:44 -0700 2009
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The Polish Boy - A story about Peter, Valentine and Ender's Father when his Father was 5 years old.

Teach...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 07:56:53 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 10:36:24 -0800 2009 1 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It also includes the original short story, "Ender's Game," upon which the novel was based.

The stories are:
"The Polish Boy" - The Wieczorek/Wiggin family's first in...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 30 22:57:30 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 04:54:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 22:46:30 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 22:56:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 15:03:08 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 15:13:19 -0700 2009 Story 1, "The Polish Boy" is about how the Battle School attempts to Ender's father, John Paul.
Story 2, "Teacher's Pest" is about how John Paul meets Ender's mother, Theresa.
...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 20 12:13:58 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 12:03:40 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 12:13:58 -0700 2009 We see hear how Ender's father manipulated the governme...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 11:13:58 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 11:15:59 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 21:09:10 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 21:09:39 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 16:12:44 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 06:24:52 -0700 2009 1 First Meetings contains three stories: 1) The Polish Boy; 2) Investment Counselor; and 3) Ender's Game. The first story provides background on Ender's father. The second introduces "Jane", Ender's temperamental digital assistant and investment counselor. It also tells how Ender started hi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 19:54:02 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 19:58:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 16 20:14:20 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 10 05:57:41 -0800 2009 1 Ender's Game which may be in my Top 10 all time favorite books if I could ever create such a list. This book is as close to a prequel as Orson Scott Card has come. The original Bugger wars are still in the past and remain background and history, but we get to meet Ender's father ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 14:39:28 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 14:58:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 12:45:40 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 10:54:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 06:25:24 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 06:28:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 09:59:36 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 10:02:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7957