Enders In Exile

ways drawn from my son
Geoffrey, who was five and then six when I was writing that book. He is
now thirty years old and the father of two children (with the good
offices of his wife, the former Heather Heavener). To my great relief,
Geoffrey was never called upon to serve his country in war.
    So in examining what
Ender's experience might be like, I have drawn upon much reading, of
course, but also from correspondence and conversation with good men and
women who have served our country in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other
trouble spots where our responsibilities as the only nation with the
strength and the will to help beleaguered people against tyranny have
been fulfilled. You bear a burden for us all, and I salute you.
    I grieve for those who
have fallen, or who, surviving with dire injuries or broken hearts,
have been deprived of much or most of the future that you once dreamed
of. As a citizen of the United States, I bear some of the
responsibility for sending you where you have gone, and certainly reap
the benefits. Like Ender, I might not have known what was being
sacrificed in my name, but I recognize the connection between us.
    And for those of you
who are visibly whole after your service, but who bear inward changes
that no one sees, and carry memories that no one shares, I can only
hope that I have done an adequate job of representing, in Ender Wiggin,
something of what you feel and think and remember.

Coming in 2009 from Tor Books and Hatrack River
Enterprises:
The Ender's Game Companion,
written
by Jake Black. This encyclopedic volume is thoroughly researched, and
features entries on the characters, planets, technology, and more from
the
Ender's Game
Universe—the novels,
short stories, comics, and screenplay. The following is a sample entry
from the
Companion.
    HUNDRED WORLDS

    The Hundred Worlds was
the name given to the different planets settled by humans during the
3,000 years following Ender Wiggin's victory over the formics: Albion,
Armenia, As Fábricas, Associated Planets, Ata Atua,
Baía, The Belt, Calicut, Córdoba, Cyrillia,
Descoladore, Divine Wind, Etruid, Gales, Ganges, Hegria, Helvetica,
Honshu, Jonlei, Jung Calvin Colonies, Lusitania, Lybian Quarter,
Memphis, Milagre, Mindanao, Moctezuma, Moskva, Nagoya, Oporto, Otaheti,
Outback, Pacifica/Lumana'i', Path/Tao, Qu, Reykjavik, Rhemis, Rov,
Saturn, Shakespeare Colony (formerly Colony I), Sorelledolce, Stumpy
Point, Summer Islands, Trondheim, Ugarit.

     
Ender's and
Valentine's Travels

Shortly after defeating the
formics, Ender left Earth to govern one of the colonies in the Hundred
Worlds. The first colony he visited, as seen in
Ender in
Exile
and "Gold Bug," was Shakespeare Colony, also known as
Colony I. The term "Colony I" will be changed to "Shakespeare" in
future editions of
Speaker for the Dead
and
Xenocide.
This change is being made, in Orson Scott Card's words, "to accommodate
the 'true' story" as written in
Ender in Exile.

Ender and Valentine didn't
stay in any one place too long. Their galactic travelogue is as follows:

Earth
Shakespeare Colony
Ganges
Various planets, including Helvetica
and others not yet identified, where Ender was not a speaker for the
dead but a research assistant for Valentine as she wrote her books.
(Ender had written The Hive Queen and The Hegemon in Shakespeare
Colony, but did not list Speaker for the Dead as his occupation.)
Sorelledolce
Rov, where citizens of the colony
first see Ender with Jane's jewel in his ear. He also lists his
occupation as speaker for the dead for the first time here.
Various planets, including Moctezuma
and others not yet identified, where Ender was a fulltime speaker for
the dead.
Trondheim
Lusitania