Today Tor Books published the first chapter of the ‘Children of the Fleet’ by Orson Scott Card on their blog.

‘Children of the Fleet’ is the first novel in a new ‘Ender’s Game’ spin-off series featuring Colonel Graff and a Fleet School student named Dabeet Ochoa.

Read the novel’s description below or skip to the good stuff and read the first chapter, here.

Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the International Fleet became the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station, and still recruits very smart kids to train as leaders of colony ships, and colonies.

Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. Top of his class in every school. But he doesn’t think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. That he knows of. At least until the day that Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview.

‘Children of the Fleet’ will be published on October 10.Purchase it at your local bookstore or pre-order it on Amazon.