It currently consists of sixteen novels, thirteen short stories, 47 comic issues, an audioplay, and a film.
The first two novels in the series, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won both the Hugo[1][2] and Nebula[1][3] Awards.
The series is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known formally as "Formics", but more colloquially as "Buggers".
While the first novel concerned itself with armies and space warfare, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are more philosophical in nature, dealing with the difficult relationship between the humans and the "Piggies" (or "Pequeninos"), and Andrew's (Ender's) attempts to stop another xenocide from happening.
This involves the Battle School children, as well as Ender's brother, Peter Wiggin, and Petra Arkanian going up against Achilles de Flandres (from Poke's crew).
On November 4, 2013, Johnston confirmed[8] work on a second trilogy of novels covering the Second Formic War, with the manuscript for the first book due in 2014.
[10] The Swarm, continuing the stories of Victor Delgado, Mazer Rackham, and Bingwen,[11] was released on August 2, 2016.
[14] According to an interview with Orson Scott Card[15] at Southern Virginia University, Fleet School[16] is "a new set of sequels to Ender's Game.
On November 12, 2015, Orson Scott Card announced the title of the series and its first novel,[17] Children of the Fleet was released on October 10, 2017.
First Meetings is a collection of short stories whose settings range from before Ender's Game until after Shadows in Flight and was first released in 2002.
[46] In December, 2010, it was announced that the video game development had stopped and the project put on indefinite hold.
[citation needed] The film Ender's Game was released in the UK on October 25, 2013, and in the USA on November 1, 2013.
[49] The cast includes Harrison Ford, Abigail Breslin, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, and Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin.
The book is notable for having new and behind the scenes information on certain topics such as Battle School Slang, The Look of the Formics, The History of Hyrum Graff, Ender and Valentine's Travels, and Mazer Rackham's Spaceship.
The first book in the series, Ender's Game, largely stems from the human quest to defend themselves from this species, although the Formics ultimately turn out as victims, with the first attack being an accident due to differing biology.