By the time the name was changed to the War of Xenocide, humanity was no longer grateful, and the last thing any government would have dared to do was authorize a pension trust fund for Ender Wiggin, the perpetrator of the most awful crime in human history.
Well, strictly speaking, that action was taken at the end of the Third Bugger War, when people still thought of the Buggers as monsters and the children who commanded the fleet as heroes.
"Now you can start paying taxes like the rest of us."Įver since the end of the War of Xenocide, Andrew had lived on a trust fund set up by a grateful world to reward the commander of the fleets that saved humanity. When Valentine emerged from the debarkation chamber-alphabetically she was always after him-Īndrew greeted her with the news. This was much more relevant to him than the other pertinent fact-that four hundred and some-odd years had passed since the day he was born, back on Earth, back when the human race had not spread beyond the solar system of its birth. Or rather, after complicated calculations of how many seconds he had been in flight, and at what percentage of lightspeed, and therefore what amount of subjective time had elapsed for him, he reached the conclusion that he had passed his twentieth birthday just before the end of the voyage. INVESTMENT COUNSELOR - First Meetings In the Enderverse (Orson Scott Card) | Read books online free without registration and downloading Orson Scott Card « First Meetings In the Enderverse» Subject: Science fiction INVESTMENT COUNSELORĪndrew Wiggin turned twenty the day he reached the planet Sorelledolce.
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