Ender's Game · Book 5
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
- Published
- 30 October 2007
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN-13
- 9780765312822
- Type
- novella
About this book
A War of Gifts is a 128-page novella Card published October 30, 2007, following Children of the Mind and preceding Ender in Exile -- a side story set during Ender's original Battle School years rather than a continuation of the main saga's later timeline.
Its place in Ender's Game
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story is book 5 in the Ender's Game series. It follows Children of the Mind. It is followed by Ender in Exile. See the full Ender's Game reading order.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is six years old when he's recruited into Battle School, an orbiting military academy built to find and train the child who can save humanity from a third invasion by the alien "Buggers." Ender is a prodigy the adults running the program are willing to isolate, manipulate and break in order to shape into a commander — and the story is as much about what that does to a brilliant, lonely child as it is about the tactical war games he keeps winning. The final twist of Ender's Game…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780765377128
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781593976316
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781427267351