New York: Tor Books, 2003. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First printing with full number line down to one. Signed in my presence by both author at a local book signing event. The text block is solid, clean and square. Endpapers are clear of markings with NO previous owner's signature. Spine tight, boards rigid and tips pointed. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has no tears or fray... unread and as if it just came off the bookstore shelf. Looks dashing in its shiny new mylar cover. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing..

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First Meetings is a collection of three novellas -- plus the original "Ender's Game" -- that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. "The Polish Boy" begins in the years between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin -- the future father of Ender -- they believe they may have found their man. Or boy. In "Teacher's Pest" -- a novella written especially for this collection -- a brilliant but insufferably arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now an American university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student named Theresa Brown. It is many years since the end of the Bugger War in "The Investment Counselor." Ender's reputation as a hero and savior has suffered a horrible reversal. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive -- until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide. Also reprinted here is the original landmark novella, "Ender's Game," which first appeared in 1977.

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Bookseller: Winding Road Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000827
Title: First Meetings in the Enderverse
Author: Orson Scott Card
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0765308738
ISBN 13: 9780765308733
Publisher: Tor Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2003
Keywords: Science Fiction

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