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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. Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera

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Editor 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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I've watched the film 3 times and read the book 3 times. Now I've listened to the audio play.
Each one offers a slightly different insight into the characters. Here you'll begin to understand Bean more. His backstory and capabilities put a very different weight on the actions of the adults.
Obviously some parts aren't as good as the book. But getting so much world and character building in through only conversation was an exceptional experience.
I really loved this.
Give it a try!

Another way to enjoy an already perfect story.

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I’ve read the book and seen the movie but this was a different take. I quite enjoyed it, it’s worth a listen to

Worth a listen

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I very much enjoyed the audiobook version of "Ender's Game", so I was keen to get this play version too. After reading other pretty negative reviews, I was worried the acting would be very wooden. However, I was pleasantly surprised- whilst the acting is not up to the standard of some of the finest radio examples, like Ian Holm's Frodo in the BBC's Lord of the Rings, I found it to be perfectly adequate. The adaptation of the book to a play script was also very good, such that I think someone who has not read or listened to the original will also be able to enjoy the play.

A good adaptation of a great story

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Read the book before but an audio format like this felt like a good fit to revisit this story. Looking forward to the adaptation of the other books.

Great first experience in audioplay

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Was a fantastic take on the original book. Kept me hooked until the end. Well done

Brillaint

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But aren’t they always? Very much enjoyed spotting the differences and the extra depth of plot and character!

Better than the film!

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I read Enders Game when it was first published and it has always stayed with me. The audible dramatisation does the book justice. Oerson Scott Card. has amazing insight into the complex human condition.

excellent. farsighted

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Cast made the book more enjoyable, easy to hear different characters, only disappointment was the music in between

Good cast

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this has been the best rendition of any book I have listened to and is worth sitting down to for a full story.

Do NOT miss this

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Great Audio, voice actors and music.
Story personally slightly underwhelming maybe due to it's fame.

amazing performance and good story!

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