Take a look with your own eyes at the cover art just released for Shadows in Flight. The image is small, but we’re working on obtaining a larger image. You can see it for yourself on Amazon here.
Interestingly, Orson Scott Card’s official website now features the official release date (January 17, 2012) instead of the date Card and his family believe the Ender’s Game sequel, Shadows in Flight will be released (November 28, 2011).
We like this cover art a lot more than the audiobook cover art which you can see here. Which do you prefer?
P.S. Along with the new theme, we’ve added backgrounds you can download and new social features. Please +1 our site near the top right of this page so that other Ender’s Game fans can find our site.
Update: To view a larger version of the cover art click here.
15-year-old actor, Brandon T. Russell tweeted this morning that he was auditioning for the movie Ender’s Game. When asked for which role he was auditioning, he tweeted back “Peter.” Read his small collection of Ender’s Game related tweets below.
We’ve contacted Brandon and asked him a few questions about his audition via his website, but we have not heard back from him. Brandon T. Russell has a small army of acting experience and assuming he knows how to act mean and aggressive, we think he’d make a great Peter Wiggin.
Now that auditions for the Ender’s Game movie are underway we can’t wait to learn more about who will play Ender and if Brandon will be cast as Peter. Do you think Brandon will make a good Peter Wiggin? Thanks @EnderSpeaker for the tip!
P.S. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @EndersAnsible.
Again, filming for the Ender’s Game movie isn’t supposed to begin until the new year (2012) -that much we know is true. However, you will recall that last month we reported a rumor that the movie was to film in South Africa, click here to read the article. Now another rumor is circulating that Ender’s Game, at least parts of it will be shot in Hungary. According to sources a 100-day shoot is scheduled sometime next summer in a Hungarian movie studio.
Please remember everyone, rumors are alas only rumors. It may be that everyone is simply hoping Ender’s Game will film in their country.
Next week on Wednesday, September 21, Formic Wars: Burning Earth (a prequel to Ender’s Game) will be released on hardcover. Formic Wars: Burning Earth was previously released as a limited series of 7 comic book issues. This graphic novel in hardcover will contain all 7 issues in one binding.
The content is all new to those who have only read the Ender saga in book form, and the prequel is just as savory as any of the sequels. Just face it, you know you’re dying to know more about Mazer Rackham.
If you’ve never read the comics, pick up a copy of Formic Wars: Bruning Earth next week at your local bookstore or you can pre-order your copy on Amazon today.
According to Amazon, you can now pre-order Shadows in Flight on hardcover, Kindle Edition and audiobook! From the details on the Shadow’s in Flight page on Amazon we have a few new pieces of information, the most important being the release date of the ebook platforms: January 17, 2012.
Remember that the ebook editions of the book will have related multimedia not included in a physical copy of the book. Both the Kindle edition and the Nook edition have a set price of $9.99.
The hardcover of Shadows in Flight has a list price of $21.99. Amazon tells us that the novel is a short 240 pages. We’re not sure why Amazon has the release date of the hardcover listed as January 17, 2012. We’re thinking it’s a simple mistake because Orson Scott Card’s official websitestill lists the release date of Shadows in Flight as November 28, 2011.Update: We’ve now learned that January 17 is the official publication date, but books are often released early and so Card & his family believe Shadows in Flight will still be released in late November.
If you’re read the short summary of Shadows in Flight on Orson Scott Card’s website and the sneak peek of the first chapter then you have a pretty good idea of what the short novel is about. Still, if that’s not enough the product description on Amazon gives us a little bit clearer picture of what exactly will take place in the novel.
“At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children–the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth’s scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten–a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth’s history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come.
For there in space before them lies a derelict Formic colony ship. Aboard it, they will find both death and wonders–the life support that is failing on their own ship, room to grow, and labs in which to explore their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship’s colony.”
A colony ship killed by disease? With genetic labs and three individuals with Anton’s Key turned (assuming Bean dies) surely they’ll find a cure. In fact it says so right there in the product description: they are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves. Still, it’s anybody’s guess how exactly a disease is putting all of humanity in danger.
Lastly, the audiobook in CD format has a list price of $29.99 and the release date is listed the same day as the ebooks: January 17, 2012. Curiously, the narrator of the audiobook is not list on the cover or in the details of Amazon or Barnes and Noble.Currently only a picture of the audiobook cover is listed. However, if the small pictures of the Shadow in Flight cover have been irritating you the way they been irritating us then you can view a hi-res of the audiobook cover here.
Have you pre-ordered Shadow in Flight yet? We can’t wait until November!
Happy Birthday to Ender’s Game auther, Orson Scott Card! He turns the big 60 today! We wish him a wonderful birthday, good health and hope that he has many more birthdays to come.
Thank you, Orson Scott Card, for sharing Ender with us. Through him, you’ve touched many lives over many years. Help us celebrate his birthday on twitter!
Be sure to send him birthday wishes on twitter @orsonscottcard or at try contacting him on his site here.
Although filming for Ender’s Game isn’t scheduled to begin until after the new year, rumor has it that Ender’s Game (at least parts of it) will be shot in South Africa. American Peter Safran describes the landscape, “..the locations are limitless. Desert, beach, urban, jungle … whatever you want to shoot, it exists in South Africa.”
As fans of Ender’s Game, we can easily predict that most scenes will be shot in space stations, e.i. Battle School and Command School, due to the nature of the book and movie.
So why South Africa? Maybe that’s where Hood will film Ender’s short leave on Earth, when he builds a raft and swims out with Valentine. Although, Orson Scott Card has previously said that Peter and Valentine would not be emphasized in a movie version of Ender’sGame, we think South African sounds like a perfect location to shoot a Peter/Valentine forest scene- dead and tortured squirrels and all.
What scene do imagine they’ll shoot in South Africa?
Thanks to all you Ender fans out there, Ender’s Game has topped NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy booklist at #3! With just two spots above Ender’s Game, the #1 spot went to J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings with 29,701 votes. The #2 spot on the list went to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams with 20,069 votes. With an impressive 16,141 votes, Ender’s Game came in third! Not a bad turn out at all.
Thank you everyone who voted, tweeted and retweeted! You can read the complete list here.
We want to know, how many books on NPR’s Top 100 Sci Fi and Fantasy book list have you read?
It’s August, and that means a new issue of the Intergalactic Medicine Show. If you’re an Ender’s Game fan and a subscriber to IGMS, you have access to the first chapter of the Ender’s Game sequel, Shadows in Flight. For those non-subscribers, from IGMS, we have a sneak preview of the first chapter (called “In the Giant’s Shadow”). Read the sneak preview of Shadows in Flight below!
Of course, if you’re an IGMS subscriber, we would love to have scans of the complete first chapter of Shadows in Flight. Please let us know your thoughts on the first chapter. If we like what you have to say, we’ll post it!
Talk about a fan of Ender’s Game. One couple has decided to give their son the middle name “Ender” in honor of our favorite hero, Andrew Wiggin. Personally, we don’t think that naming your child Ender, at least as a middle name, is all that strange. (We’ve heard far more eccentric baby names from Hollywood celebrities, like Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter Apple.)
According to the site Baby Center, 60 babies per million were named Ender in 2010, but none of them were born the United States. We’re not exactly sure where all those children named Ender were born, but according the US Social Security Administration the name Ender has not been in the top 1000 baby names anytime recently.
With just a little research on the Internet, we found another baby named Ender. (Actually, we found quite a few when when we Googled “Baby Ender.”) This time we’re assuming it’s the child’s first name, because no other name is given. Although the reason for the name choice is not mentioned, we think this child’s picture (shown at the top left) looks like he’s giving flight commands.
What do you think, would you ever name your child after a character from Ender’s Game?
Cover Art Now on Amazon
We’ve contacted Brandon and asked him a few questions about his audition via 
