Orson Scott Card Returns With Ender In Exile

Ender in Exile

Twenty-three years have passed since Orson Scott Card first dazzled readers with Ender's Game,a seminal work that blurred the lines between young adult and adult fiction. Now, he’s back with Ender in Exilewhich picks up where the 1985 winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, science fiction’s highest honors, left off.

The revival of Ender, the boy hero who saves Earth from bug-like aliens, goes beyond the novel’s pages with a new comic-book adaptation of the original saga and spurring interest in Hollywood as a potential film franchise.

All of this quite surprises the 57-year-old North Carolina resident, although he suspects the story still resonates partly because of its sad martial tale: Card introduces the protagonist as a 6-year-old prodigy who is bred to be Earth’s future hero, but to achieve this, Ender must train to become the perfect soldier — cunning, strong, ruthless. He is symptomatic of a war-obsessed society, a reclusive character grappling with the very grown-up issues of isolation and loneliness.

With such powerful themes, Card is at times amused by Ender’s popularity among young readers. He never intended to be a “young adult” author. He is proud, however, that the books speak to adolescents who are reading them and engaging in serious philosophical conversations during their most malleable years.

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