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Children of the Fleet

Written by: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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"The ideal presentation of any book of mine is to have excellent actors perform it in audio-only format." - Orson Scott Card

This program is read by Stefan Rudnicki and a full cast including Emily Rankin, Kirby Heyborne, Orson Scott Card, P.J. Ochlan, Gabrielle de Cuir, Richard Gilliland, Kristoffer Tabori, and Judy Young.

From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and Best-selling author of Ender's Game, his first solo Enderverse audiobook in years.

Children of the Fleet is a new angle on Card's Best-selling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth told in the Ender's Shadow series.

Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the International Fleet became the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station, and still recruits very smart kids to train as leaders of colony ships, and colonies.

Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. Top of his class in every school. But he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. That he knows of. At least until the day that Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview.

Other Series by Orson Scott Card

Ender

#1 Ender's Game / #2 Ender in Exile / #3 Speaker for the Dead / #4 Xenocide / #5 Children of the Mind

Ender's Shadow

#1 Ender's Shadow / #2 Shadow of the Hegemon / #3 Shadow Puppets / #4 Shadow of the Giant / #5 Shadows in Flight

The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)

#1 Earth Unaware / #2 Earth Afire / #3 Earth Awakens

©2017 Orson Scott Card (P)2017 Macmillan Audio
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listened faithfully as I did my daily physical training. Clear narration made it vary easy to listen to.

Nice addition to the endervers.

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I've been a fan of Orson Scott Card's for over 15 years. So it pains me to give one of his books such a poor rating. The storyline felt forced and not natural at all. Very dislikeable main character and the other characters didn't make up for it at all. The Narration felt poor but maybe that was because I felt forced to finish this book. Wouldn't recommend it to a friend. #Audible1

An Ok Book

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I loved Ender’s Game and was genuinely excited to read this book. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a disappointment. I found it so dull that it was difficult to get through, and I had to force myself to finish it.

The protagonist is neither compelling nor particularly likable, which makes spending an entire novel with him a challenge. In my view, this story would have worked far better as a short story. There simply isn’t enough plot or action to sustain a full-length novel. Instead, the reader is given page after page of heavy exposition - more telling than showing. While exposition certainly has its place in storytelling, it needs to be balanced with meaningful plot development, especially in a young adult novel.

If you loved Ender’s Game, you may want to skip this one. Chances are you’ll be disappointed - unless you enjoy extended stretches of exposition with very little happening. Ultimately, the book doesn’t add anything new to the Ender universe and feels more like a weak rehash of familiar themes.

That said, the audiobook narration was strong. Stefan Rudnicki delivers a solid performance, as always.

Very boring, far too much exposition and no plot

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