Mazer Rackham, the only man ever to defeat the Formics, takes on a new enemy…the International Fleet itself. Only Rackham, with the help a young Hyrum Graff, can rid the I.F. of its old guard and pave the way for Earth's next great commander.

"Ender's Game" is a story by Orson Scott Card. It first appeared in the August 1977 issue of Analog magazine and was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. Although the foundation of the Ender's Game series, the short story is not properly part of the Ender's Game universe, as there are many discrepancies in continuity.

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ender's Game, a Young Man With Prospects, Investment Counselor, Ender in Flight, Mazer in Prison, the Gold Bug, the Polish Boy, Ender's Stocking, Cheater, Ender's Homecoming, Pretty Boy, Teacher's Pest. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "Ender's Game" is a story by Orson Scott Card. It first appeared in the August 1977 issue of Analog magazine and was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. Although the foundation of the Ender's Game series, the short story is not properly part of the Ender's Game universe, as there are many discrepancies in continuity. This story begins as Ender Wiggin is made the commander of Dragon Army at Battle School, an institution designed to make young boys into military commanders to fight in the next interstellar war against an unspecified enemy. Armies are groups of students which fight mock battles in the Battle Room, a null gravity environment, and are subdivided into squads known as "toons." Due to Ender's genius in leadership, Dragon Army goes on to dominate the competition, despite the teachers' attempts to put obstacles in their way. After his nineteenth consecutive victory, Ender is told that his Army is being broken up and his toon leaders promoted to be commanders in their turn, while he is being transferred to Command School for the next stage of his education. Here, a veteran named Mazer Rackham tutors him in the use of a space battle simulator. Eventually, many of his former toon leaders are brought along to serve under him once more. Once they are familiar with the simulator, they begin to fight a series of what Mazer tells them are mock battles against a computer-controlled enemy. Ender's team wins again and again, finally destroying a planet that the enemy fleet seems ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1472964

"Ender in Flight" is a story by Orson Scott Card set in his Ender's Game universe. It takes place in between "A Young Man With Prospects" and "The Gold Bug". It tells the story of a power struggle between Ender and Admiral Quincy Morgan on the voyage to the colony world Shakespeare. It appears in Card's Webzine InterGalactic Medicine Show.

Decades ago, the Formics - a bug-like alien species - attacked Earth in an attempt to eradicate humanity. The nations of our world united together and sent fleets of military spaceships into the heart of the galaxy, striking back against this enemy. Fleet after fleet of spaceships were sent to the far reaches of known space, traveling for years at light speed, attacking the different Formic worlds. Their mission: defeat the Formics and establish human colonies on the former Formic worlds. These armies depended on the guidance and leadership of a child named Ender Wiggen. The hope of humanity was a twelve-year-old boy who, though a brilliant strategist, thought the war was a nothing more than an elaborate game. Yet the soldiers loyally followed Ender and his squadron of youthful friends, looking to save mankind from the Formics, and to settle new worlds throughout the galaxy...

Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game\—winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel—and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. "The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man—or boy—in John Paul Wiggin.... In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection—a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student. "The Investment Counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive—until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xeoncide. Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender's Game," which first appeared in 1977.

The second volume of short science fiction anthology. 26 stories from series such as Confederation, The Lost Fleet, Waypoint Kangaroo, Ender, Dream Park, Wayfarers and the Polity. Authors are: Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Campbell, Becky Chambers, Robert Heinlein, George R.R. Martin, Susan R. Matthews, Orson Scott Card, James Blish, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Tanya Huff, Curtis C. Chen, Seanan McGuire, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, Gardner Dozois, David Farland, Mike Shepherd, C.L. Moore, Neal Asher, Weston Ochse, Brenda Cooper, Alan Dean Foster, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kevin J. Anderson, David Weber and C.J. Cherryh.

Short story in the "Enderverse". Takes place after Card's "Children of the Mind" and before the planned "Shadows Alive"