query: characters xenocide
supports: Ender Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel "Ender's Game" and its sequels ("Speaker for the Dead", "Xenocide", "Children of the Mind", "Ender in Exile"), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, "Ender's Shadow". The book series itself is an expansion, with some changes to detail, of Card's 1977 short story "Ender's Game." Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel "Ender's Game" (1985) and its sequel "Speaker for the Dead" (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of "Ender's Game", which Card co-produced, was released in late October 2013 in Europe and on November 1, 2013, in North America. Xenocide ( 1991 ) is the third novel in the Ender 's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card . It was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel in 1992 . The title is a combination of ' xeno - ' , meaning alien , and ' - cide ' , referring to the act of killing ; altogether referring to the act of selectively killing populations of aliens , a play on genocide . Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled mankind after two conflicts with the "buggers", an insectoid alien species. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are trained from a very young age through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed.
candidates: character ender wiggin shadow zero
answer: ender wiggin