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Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay

By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: Full Cast Recording
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Audie Award Finalist, Multi-Voiced Performance, 2014

Audie Award Finalist, Original Work, 2014

Experience Ender's Game as you've never heard it before! With an all-new, original script written by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game Alive is a full cast audio drama that reimagines the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic.

Ender’s Game Alive puts you into Battle School with young Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, as he trains to become the general who will lead Earth against the Formics, the alien "buggers". Removed from his family at the age of six, Ender must prove his strength and his leadership, even as he fights his own doubts. The stakes are nothing less than the fate of humankind.

Ender's Game Alive is performed by Kirby Heyborne, Stefan Rudnicki, Theodore Bikel, Scott Brick, Samantha Eggar, Harlan Ellison, Susan Hanfield, Roxanne Hernandez, Janis Ian, Rex Linn, Richard McGonagle, Jim Meskimen, Emily Rankin, John Rubinstein, Christian Rummel, and a full cast.

Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir

Original Score by John Rubinstein

Valentine's Theme by Janis Ian

Additional music and arrangements by Mark Mitchell

©2013 Orson Scott Card (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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Editorial reviews

With a full cast production, this highly-entertaining dramatization of the award-winning military science fiction story Ender's Game will wow fans as well as listeners new to this classic. Using an original screenplay written by Orson Scott Card himself, the audioplay takes listeners through Battle School with prodigy Ender Wiggin.

The cast fleshes out their characters with full personalities and motivations - in particular, the actors who portray the children at Battle School do a wonderful job in bringing out their precociousness and fading innocence. The action scenes are brisk and electrifying, and listeners will be swept up in the events of the story.

Critic Reviews

“Listeners will feel surrounded by Card's sophisticated, high-stakes universe. With a stately musical score and video-game sound effects, this "re-imagined" production sticks close to the novel while offering listeners an entertaining new way to enjoy one of science fiction's best loved stories.” ( AudioFile)

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Aliens and images

growth from genius child to more and a plot and subplot to entertain
Nice production and cast

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Masterpiece

I'd watched the movie, read the book. This audiobook was the most enjoyable of all.
Highly recommended

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Great performance and Adaptation

The audioplay has fantastic production value, music, fx, and narration. Characters are fleshed out and given personality by their mannerisms and voice acting without the aid of a script. The plot of the book also flows well despite a narrator; Major Jayafi and Colonel Graff provide great exposition and narration within the context of their dialogue as they both conflict and resolve how best to raise Ender for his purpose in life.

Minor spoilers I do find it hard to believe young children could ever be so responsible and virtuous, geniuses and precose or not. The emphasis on their differing nationalities feels a little forced as well, except for Ala's which introduces the Arab concept of brotherhood and Bonzo's Spanish pride well into the plot.

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audio play style was great

loved the full cast. dragged on a bit at times but the ending was good

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Fantastic story

It really helped hearing all the different voices. Complete shame that the movie wasn't as good as the book.

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Blown away by this style of audio book

I really loved this book.. Well actually this performance it was like a long movie with different actors sound effects and an overall great story. a must-listen for everyone. I hope audiobooks keep getting done like this so enjoyable to listen

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Loses a lot of original perspective

Great performances, but the script left out some of the descriptions and I couldn’t really understand characters feelings or motivations as much as in the original book.

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Great story paired with great performance

i love the depth of the story, the uniqueness of it. it leaves a lot to the imagination but in no way lacks necessary details for anyone to enjoy it.

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Loved the characters, Full cast, and the end of world theme.

Loved the book, it being a full cast, fully immersed me in the story. I loved the characters , wish I had listened to the book before I watched the movie, one of my favorite stories.

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This is a masterpiece, I truly felt like I was there with Ender and that the world was real. It showed me things a simple 1-hour long movie never could, keep up the great work and I look forward to more Full Cast Recordings.

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