Ender's Game · Book 4

Children of the Mind

by Orson Scott Card

Published
1 January 1996
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9781435234994
Type
novel

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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.

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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