In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic...

Centuries after the events that made him both a hero and a pariah, Ender Wiggin lives on, traveling the stars under a new identity as a “Speaker for the Dead”—one who tells the truth of a person’s life after they are gone. When he is called to the...