Ender Wiggins, the child savant responsible for destroying the “buggers” in the great war between the earth and these horrible creatures. Ender is a creation of the author Orson Scott Card. I’m reading the first novel in a trilogy called “Speaker for the Dead,” which begins where the first tale of Ender Wiggins, “Ender’s Game,” ends.
I really enjoy Card’s stories. In the newest editions, he explains in great detail how he developed the story I’m about to read. He is very candid when discussing the difficulties he faced and the epiphany that finally led to the writing of an award winning tale.
I first read Card while in high school. The book: “Capitol.” A collection of short stories centered around the life-extending drug somec. Each story stood on it’s own, but together told the tale of an empire built on this drug and ultimately destroyed by it. The main character (or at least the character that popped up in several of the stories), Abner Doon, was the catalyst that tore down the empire of Capitol.
Card whet on to expand the short stories of “Capitol” into two other novels called “Hot Sleep” and “The Worthing Saga.” It’s funny because Card never seemed to be satisfied with the story told in “Capitol,” but I think it was his best work…at least it’s my favorite.
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