Ender's Game · Book 4

Children of the Mind

Published
1 January 1996
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9781435234994
Type
novel
Cover of Children of the Mind

About this book

Children of the Mind, from 1996, is the fourth numbered book in the core Ender's Game saga, running 384 pages and continuing directly from Xenocide as the concluding volume of the original quartet.

Key facts about Children of the Mind

Children of the Mind is a novel by Orson Scott Card. Readers have had it since 1996. It runs to 384 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Children of the Mind. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781435234994 to find the main one.

Children of the Mind is book 4 of 6 in the Ender's Game series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with Ender's Game (1985). Ender in Exile is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 11 November 2008.

Additionally, Orson Scott Card writes Tales of Alvin Maker, Homecoming Saga and Ender's Shadow, plus 5 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Master Alvin is the latest published Orson Scott Card book on file, from 28 April 2026.

About Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American science fiction author best known for Ender's Game, a 1985 novel following a child military prodigy trained to command Earth's defense against an alien threat, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and remains one of the most widely read science fiction novels of its era, particularly popular as an entry point for younger and reluctant readers. See every Orson Scott Card book in order.

Its place in Ender's Game

Children of the Mind is book 4 in the Ender's Game series. It follows Xenocide. It is followed by A War of Gifts: An Ender Story. 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…

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