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2 unusual facts about Ender's Homecoming


Ender in Exile

Ender in Exile begins one year after Ender has won the bugger war, and begins with the short story "Ender's Homecoming" from Card's webzine Intergalactic Medicine Show.

"Ender's Homecoming" comprises the entire first chapter of the book.


Andrew Wiggin

Ender Wiggin, fictional character in the Ender's Game series

Earth Awakens

Earth Awakens is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, and the third book of the First Formic Wars trilogy of novels in the Ender's Game series.

Eight-ender

The match between Kelly Scott, who at the time was the reigning Canadian women's champion and went on to become a world champion, and Cathy King a former world bronze medalist.

Perhaps the most famous eight-ender occurred at the 2006 Players' Championships in Calgary, Alberta on April 15, 2006.

The tournament was the final Grand Slam event in the 2005-06 Grand Slam of Curling and had a CAD$100,000 purse – one of the largest in women's curling.

Ender

Kornelia Ender (born 1958), East German swimmer, multiple Olympic champion

Ender Wiggin

He molds the group of untested and unwanted students into the most successful army in the history of the school (it is revealed in Ender's Shadow that Julian "Bean" Delphiki actually chose them).

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow.

George Lynas

Born in Coatham, Redcar, Yorkshire, England, Lynas was a right-handed tail ender, who scored four runs in his three innings, averaging 2.00.

Hartley Lobban

In 1954 Lobban made only two first-class appearances, and managed only the single wicket of Gloucestershire tail-ender Bomber Wells.

Kornelia Ender

Ender trained from a young age and won her first Olympic medals as a 13-year-old at the 1972 Olympics in Munich: three silver medals, including one in the individual 200 m individual medley, finishing behind Australia's Shane Gould.

Maralik

In fiction, Maralik was introduced as the home town of fictional character Petra Arkanian of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series.

Red 5 Studios

In July 2011, Red 5 announced a collaboration with Orson Scott Card, author of the science fiction novel Ender's Game, as writer of the Firefall story as well as the creation of a manga novel co-written by his daughter Emily Janice Card and drawn by Joe Ng.

Stone ender

Armand LaMontagne, a Scituate sculptor, handbuilt a large 17th-century style stone-ender off of Route 6 in Scituate, Rhode Island in the 1970s.

Stumpy Point, North Carolina

The town is mentioned in the sci-fi novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, in which the little town is razed sometime in the future to build a spaceport in Pamlico Sound, and the spaceport is unofficially named after Stumpy Point.

Summit Entertainment

“Ender’s Game” is an adaptation by Gavin Hood and stars “Asa Butterfield” as the titular character, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin" of the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card, which was first published as a full-length novel in 1985.


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