Ender in Exile

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Ender in Exile

Author	Orson Scott Card
Cover Artist	Unknown
Series	Ender's Game Series
Genre(s)	Science Fiction
Publisher	TOR
Released	2008-11-01
Pages	??? (Edition)
ISBN	0-000-00000-0
Preceded by	Shadow of the Giant
Followed by	Shadows in Flight

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Near the end of Chapter 14 (Ender's Teacher) of Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin deployed the Molecular Detatchment Device on the Bugger Homeworld, thus destroying the Formics once and for all. Ender was hailed to the greatest military command in human history. Because of this, countries would fight to death to take control of Ender. Thus it was decided that Ender would never return from space again; Ender was chosen to be the governor of the First Colony on Shakespeare. Meanwhile, Ender's Parents must deal with the fact that they are the parents of the 3 greatest minds on earth, and they realize that Ender must never come back to earth. Valentine, Ender's sister, chooses to go to the colony with Ender, leaving her family behind to go into extraterrestrial exile. The voyage lasted 2 years for the voyagers, but 50 years in real time. When they arrived, many of the events of chapter 15 that were left untold in Ender's Game were rewritten in Ender in Exile. Eventually, Ender finds that Bugger Cocoon and embarks on his quest to find a new home for the last Hive Queen. His first stop is Ganges, a colony which is governed by Virlomi, who happens to also be a Battle School graduate. After dealing with a dangerous young Gangean colonist who is trying to ruin Ender's reputation who may have been a threat to his life, Ender moves on to another world.

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(from Amazon.com) At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin -- called Ender by everyone -- is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but instead the twelve-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies. With him went his sister Valentine, and the core of the artificial intelligence that would become Jane.

The story of those years has never been told -- until now.

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One of the working titles of the book was Ender's Exile: Ganges. In Children of the Mind it is mentioned that Gangean Hindus made a claim about human Philotic Connections.

"Human beings are organisms," said the image. "But human philotic twinings go way beyond those of any other life form." "Now you're talking about that stuff that came from Ganges a thousand years ago," said Valentine. "Nobody's been able to get consistent results from those experiments." The researchers-- Hindus all, and devout ones-- claimed that they had shown that human philotic twinings, unlike those of other organisms, did not always reach directly down into the planet's core to twine with all other life and matter. Rather, they claimed, the philotic rays from human beings often twined with those of other human beings, most often with families, but sometimes between teachers and students, and sometimes between close co-workers-- including the researchers themselves. The Gangeans had concluded that this distinction between humans and other plant and animal life proved that the souls of some humans were literally lifted to a higher plane, nearer to perfection. They believed that the Perfecting Ones had become one with each other the way that all of life was one with the world. "It's all very pleasingly mystical, but nobody except Gangean Hindus takes it seriously anymore." Xenocide page 42 of 416

According to this podcast it will happen between Ender's Game chapters 14 and 15.
Here, Orson Scott Card states Ender in Exile will about bringing "Ender himself to a colony world where a woman named Randi and her child now live."

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