Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card

I think Ender’s Game is the best children’s book ever written, even though its author didn’t intend it as a children’s book – and even though West Point and other elite military colleges cover it in courses on leadership – and I’m a little sad it wasn’t around when I was a child. I regret that I didn’t write about this series that spring sometime soon I would like to reread some of the earlier books (namely Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow, and maybe also Shadows in Flight definitely not the ill-advised Christmas-themed one, which was stupid, and not the ones that contain anti-gay-marriage rants, which are worse than stupid) and write about them here.

I wanted to hit a reading goal that I had set for myself (I didn’t make it), so when I finished a book I didn’t slow down to write about it but just went on to the next one. The dazzling Ender series, which has changed the face of science fiction, concludes.I read most of Orson Scott Card’s Ender books in the spring of 2013, which was a slow period in my blogging life. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves. Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania.

But once again the human race has grown fearful the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos a large colony of humans and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. Though billed as the final Ender novel, this story leaves enough mysteries unexplored to justify another entry and Card fans should find that possibility, like this novel, very welcome indeed.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Children of the Mind 'Card's prose is powerful here, as is his consideration of mystical and quasi-religious themes. Achieves and delivers more than almost anything else within the science fiction genre, Ender's Game is a contemporary classic - New York Times

Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card