A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. This book is set in Card's Ender's Game series and takes place during Ender Wiggin's time at Battle School as described in Card's novels Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow.
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Characters
Morgan family
- Zeck Morgan : The anti-hero protagonist.
- Reverend Habit Morgan - Zeck's father
- Unnamed - Zeck's mother
- Unnamed - Zeck's three younger siblings
Wiggin family
- Ender Wiggin
- Peter Wiggin - Ender's older brother
- Valentine Wiggin - Ender's older sister
- John Paul Wiggin - Ender's father
- Theresa Wiggin - Ender's mother
Students
- Dink Meeker - Dutch boy
- "Rose de Nose" Rosen
- Filippus "Flip" Rietveld - Dutch boy
- Bonzo Madrid
- Ahmed - Pakistani (Muslim) student
International Fleet personnel
- Captain Bridegan
- Agnes O'Toole - IF tester
- Colonel Graff - Battle School commander
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Literary significance and reception
A War of Gifts was not particularly well received by genre critics. The chief complaint with the story is that although it raises the issues of faith, religious freedom and religious suppression, it does so in a very superficial manner. Some critics have also commented on the character of Ender Wiggin who is described as being too Christ-like to be believable.
"Ender's Stocking"
Chapter 2 of the piece, "Ender's Stocking," originally appeared in electronic form as the first third of the short story "Ender's Stocking," published in the October 2007 issue of Card's webzine InterGalactic Medicine Show. This chapter has been criticized for seeming to be unrelated to the rest of the book and for detracting from the rest of the story.
"The War of Gifts"
In 2016 the author released an abridged form of the story titled The War of Gifts for inclusion in the anthology Decision Points.
Connection to other parts of the Ender series
In addition to being set during Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, the Islamic counter reaction to the Christmas celebrations in A War of Gifts sows the seeds for the creation of the Muslim Caliphate by Battle School graduates which plays a major role in the Shadow series.
See also
- Ender's Game (series)
- List of Ender's Game characters
- List of works by Orson Scott Card
References
External links
- Publication information for A War of Gifts available from Card's website
- A War of Gifts: An Ender Story title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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