From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and bestselling author of Ender’s Game, his first solo Enderverse novel in years. Children of the Fleet is a new angle on Card’s bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth told in the Ender’s Shadow series. Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed … threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the International Fleet became the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station, and still recruits very smart kids to train as leaders of colony ships, and colonies.
Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. Top of his class in every school. But he doesn’t think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. That he knows of. At least until the day that Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview.
THE ENDER UNIVERSE
Ender series
Ender’s Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile / Children of the Fleet
Ender’s Shadow series
Ender’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight
The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens
The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
The Swarm / The Hive
Ender novellas
A War of Gifts / First Meetings
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Always happy when another book in the Ender world is published. I find myself liking the prequels more and more as he expands on the background of the original books.
I enjoyed the extension of Ender’s universe to post-war Fleet School. There is just enough relation to the other stories connected with a unique story about what the world does with its brilliant children in the first generation after using them for war.
Loved all the books in the series.
Children of the Fleet is the latest Ender universe novel. Since Ender’s story was pretty much wrapped up and the series was so popular Card has continued it by telling the stories of the other children who were at battle school. I wondered what he would do when he ran out of kids but apparently, he found a solution!
Dabeet is the son of an unmarried mother, so he has always wondered who his father is. His mother told him that the man was a fleet officer which, if he claimed Dabeet would give him better opportunities in life than he was going to get otherwise, and he desperately wants those opportunities because he’s brilliant. Possible even more brilliant than the great Ender so he knows he can do great things if he can get into fleet school.
Since his mother seems unlikely to help him get there he goes around her and applies himself which sets him on a path to find out where he belongs. Along the way he finds out that no matter how smart he is there is still a lot he doesn’t know about how people work. Several terrible mistakes put his life and the lives of those around him in danger and it’s only through teamwork that he’ll be to get them all out of trouble.
I won’t say this book is as good as some of the others in the series and it definitely feels like Card is reaching at this point just to continue the series but I couldn’t help enjoying it anyway. It’s interesting that we end up finding out the truth of Dabeet’s origins but he doesn’t, and I wonder if he’ll get a second book so he can learn it too. In the beginning he was a fairly unlikeable character, by the end he’s still a brat but you can see that he’s learning.
I wouldn’t mind books about some of the new side-character kids we met in this book if the author intends to continue doing the series.
Picking up where Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide left off, we find Ender (aka Andrew) trying to prevent the death of his longtime companion and friend Jane, a sentient computer who has been a part of his life since Battle School (even if he didn’t know it at the time). As usual another Excellent Read! I don’t believe in Spoilers so that’s about all I will say, except that I have loved the Ender’s Game Book Collection for as long as I can remember, I have read every book in the series so many times that my paperback books are worn out and I have purchased replacement books a few times. I was happy when my husband got me a Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 for Christmas so I could purchase a copy of the books in a format that I can read over and over, a format that will never wear out. I Love not only the Ender’s Game Series, but even those additional series which are related to it (especially the Shadow Series). What An Awesome read!!
If you are deep into the Ender universe this book is for you
As with all of Mr. Card’s books I’ve read, well developed characters and story line without being heavy reading. I want to finish the book, but I want more, immediately.
Card is at his best.
good book
Top notch