New Volume of Ender Essays Announced
Aaron Johnston, collaborator on the Formic Wars comics and co-author of the forthcoming novel Earth Unaware: The First Formic War just tweeted that he “Just turned in [his] essay for” Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on The SF Classic Ender’s Game, edited by Orson Scott Card.
From the title’s website:
Ender’s World conscripts almost two dozen writers of science fiction, fantasy, and young adult books to offer new perspectives on the 1985 novel, along with insights gleaned from other Ender stories that fit within the Ender’s Game chronology, including Ender in Exile and Ender’s Shadow. In addition, military strategists Colonel Tom Ruby and Captain John Schmitt offer insight into the human-Formic war. Contributions from Aaron Johnson, the coauthor of the Formic Wars prequel novels, and Jake Black, the coauthor of The Authorized Ender Companion, are also included.
The collection’s insightful analyses and moving personal essays are rounded out with short pieces answering more technically oriented questions about the Ender universe, including: Why is the Battle Room a cube? and Why did the military recruit their soldiers as children?
Edited by Orson Scott Card himself, who also provides an introduction to the anthology as well as to the individual essays, Ender’s World is aimed both at readers who have kept up with the many books that came after and at those who have not, but who loved and want to re-visit the original novel.
No publication date or information appears to be currently listed, but an option is presented for receiving email updates.
What do you think? Are you interested in this title which appears, in many ways, to be a companion of sorts to the Authorized Ender Companion? Is that an artist’s rendering of the Battle School on the cover?