{"product_id":"book-b7rr","title":"First Meetings","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the Enderverse. When Orson Scott Card first published \"Ender's Game\" as a novella in 1977, few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. Expanded into a novel in 1985, \u003ci\u003eEnder's Game\u003c\/i\u003e won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Never out of print and translated into dozens of languages, it is the rare work of fiction that can truly be said to have transcended a genre. \u003ci\u003eEnder's Game\u003c\/i\u003e and its sequels have won dozens of prestigious awards and are as popular today among teens and young readers as adults. \u003ci\u003eFirst Meetings\u003c\/i\u003e is an audiobook collection of three novellas-plus the original \"\u003ci\u003eEnder's Game\u003c\/i\u003e\"-that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. \"\u003ci\u003eThe Polish Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\" begins in the wake between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin-the future father of Ender -they believe they may have found their man. Or boy. In \"\u003ci\u003eTeacher's Pest\u003c\/i\u003e\"-a novella written especially for this collection-a brilliant but insufferably arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now an American university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student named Theresa Brown. It is many years since the end of the Bugger Wars in \"\u003ci\u003eThe Investment Counselor\u003c\/i\u003e.\" Ender's reputation as a hero and savior has suffered a horrible reversal. 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 Xenocide. THE ENDER UNIVERSE \u003cu\u003eEnder series\u003c\/u\u003e \u003ci\u003eEnder’s Game \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eSpeaker for the Dead \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eXenocide \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Mind \u003c\/i\u003e\/\u003ci\u003e Ender in Exile \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Fleet\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cu\u003eEnder’s Shadow series\u003c\/u\u003e \u003ci\u003eEnder’s Shadow \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eShadow of the Hegemon \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eShadow Puppets \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eShadow of the Giant \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eShadows in Flight\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cu\u003eThe First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)\u003c\/u\u003e \u003ci\u003eEarth Unaware \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eEarth Afire \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eEarth Awakens\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cu\u003eThe Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)\u003c\/u\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Swarm \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eThe Hive\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cu\u003eEnder novellas\u003c\/u\u003e \u003ci\u003eA War of Gifts \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003eFirst Meetings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49394462523696,"sku":"BDb7rr","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49394462556464,"sku":"40b7rr","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/310345-b7rr-Square.jpg?v=1735371959","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-b7rr","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}