Orson Scott Card Announces New Ender’s Game Books

Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender’s Game, was originally published as a short story. After adapting it to its form as a full-length novel, published in 1985, Ender’s Game went on to win both the 1985 Nebula Award for best novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for best novel. Scott Card wrote a series of follow-on books to Ender’s story, including Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind.

With the latest success of Ender’s Game as a film, Orson Scott Card has announced new set of sequels to Ender’s Game, focusing on the storyline on what happens after Battle School after the International Fleet loses its purpose of war. The children move on to Fleet School, which prepares them to become commanders and explorers in the colonies that are going to be forming. As he describes is, “we get to see as the school administrators repurpose the school, the Battle Room is still there, but it’s a whole different kind of education.”