Series: Book 4 in the The Ender Saga series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card
returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero
of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender's Game, who as a
man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and
restore the Hive Queen to life. Now his adopted world,
Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying weapon
that he himself used so many thousands of years before.
Lusitania is home to three sentient species: The Pequeninos,
a strange race native to Lusitania; a large colony of humans;
and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But the Starways
Congress fears Lusitania and a strange virus that it harbors,
and they have gathered a fleet to destroy the planet. Ender's
oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence that has
evolved with him over three thousand years, allowed the
Starways Congress to discover her existence when she tried t
stop the fleet. Now they are trying to kill her as well, by
shutting down the network of computers and ansibles in which
she lives. They are afraid of her and of her control over all
human communications. Jane can save the three sentient races
of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the
universe, and then instantly back to a different world,
abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the
processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress
is shutting down the Net world by world. Soon she will not be
able to move the ships. But there is hope: during the first
trip outside, Ender's mind briefly took control and created
two new beings - replicas of his brother Peter, who was the
Hegemon, and his sister Valentine. These two children of
Ender's mind, together with his adopted children from
Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to
influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to
save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence
once the Human Network is closed off to her.
Now in trade paperback for the first
time!With Children of the Mind, Card returns to the story of
Ender Wiggin: hero of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning
Enders Game, the original Speaker for the Dead, and the hated
Xenocide who murdered an entire planet. Now his adopted
world, Lusitania, is threatened by the same planet-destroying
weapon that he himself used so many thousands of years
before. Enders oldest friend, Jane, the computer intelligence
that has evolved with him over 3000 years, is about to be
killed by the Starways Congress, which has finally discovered
her existence and fears her control of the galaxy-wide
interlocked network of computers and ansibles.Jane can save
the three sentient races of Lusitaniathe Pequeninos, the Hive
Queens daughters, and the human colony. She has learned how
to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back
to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But
it takes all the processing power available to her, and the
Starways Congress is shutting down the Net world by
world.
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