![]() "Orson Scott Card has used books like Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead as a platform to explore some fascinating concepts, and 'Gold Bug' is very much in the spirit of offering a fresh new perspective on the evolution of an unnatural sort of creature that is quite useful as a tool, but unable to survive on its own when it's abandoned by its masters." "I thought I was just writing a good adventure story with an interesting character," said Mr. "Part of the reason the Enderverse stories are so beloved is because they offer more than just great science fiction," said Ernst Dabel, President of Dabel Brothers Productions. But what Sel finds in his journey is something that may change the way the formics are understood by human scientists… and something that may give him a lifetime of new frontiers to explore. Upon Ender's arrival, Sel realizes that there is still much to learn about the rest of the planet, and obtains permission from Ender to explore past the reaches of the colony and see what lies beyond in the cold reaches of the south. But the older generation, comprised of former pilots and ships' officers who fought under Ender's command during the war, ensures that the younger colonists know that this is the mind who made everything possible. Due to the technical aspects of relativistic space travel, fourteen-year-old Ender finds himself in charge of a colony that has existed for decades without him, and many of the younger colonists resent the fact that the Fleet has sent a "mere child" to be their governor. Eventually, he is elected governor, until a replacement arrives - Ender Wiggin. The story follows a former pilot named Sel Menach, a xenobiologist who has spent the bulk of his life after the war in the fledgling colony working with the terrestrial plants the colonists brought along, learning to protect them from parasites and helping them to adapt to the climate patterns of the new world.
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