Orson Scott Card's Ender's Tribe Gathers Eight Enderverse Stories

Orson Scott Card's new collection Ender's Tribe went on sale on 20 October from Blackstone Publishing, FandomPulse reported on 19 October. It gathers eight stories from the Enderverse, beginning with the original Ender's Game short story.

Locus lists the book as a 288-page release at $29.99, available in hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook formats.

According to FandomPulse, the stories centre on Mazer Rackham, Bonito 'Bonzo' Madrid, Han Tzu, Peter Wiggin, Sel Menach, Dabeet Ochoa and Ender Wiggin. It is a mixed cast, taking in figures from the saga's core family alongside characters who sit nearer its edges.

The St. Clair News-Aegis describes the stories as looking beyond the central figures to explore the people on the margins of the Enderverse. In its account, characters who once had only a handful of lines are given lives of their own.

The Cullman Times carries the same framing, noting that Card has returned to that universe once more with the Blackstone volume.

One inclusion matters especially to completists. FandomPulse reports that Governor Wiggin was first posted to Card's subscriber site in 2017.

Its only previous print appearance, per the same report, was the 2021 Centipede Press limited edition Ender's Way. That edition ran to 300 signed copies, listed at $250.

A $29.99 trade edition therefore puts into general circulation a story that, in print, had been confined to a very small and expensive run. Readers who followed neither the subscriber site nor the collector's market would not have encountered it.

Ender's Game began as a short story in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, according to Wikipedia. The novel followed on 15 January 1985, and it won the Nebula Award in 1985 and the Hugo Award in 1986.

The same entry lists four sequels: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind and Ender in Exile. That history gives the new collection's opening choice a certain symmetry, since the book starts with the story from which the whole saga grew.

Blackstone's own listing describes the collection as spanning the entire Ender Saga and bookending the series. Barnes & Noble similarly calls it a special collection of eight stories from the Ender Universe.

Ender's Tribe is a story collection rather than a new novel, so it is aimed at readers already familiar with Ender's Game and its world. We have not yet reviewed it, and the sources above are the basis for everything reported here.