Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay
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Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay
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Full Cast Recording
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Orson Scott Card
About this listen
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.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.
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Critic reviews
Would you consider the audio edition of Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay to be better than the print version?
Having never read the print version but listened to the entirety of the Ender Universe on audio books, it's hard to say if this is better than the print version. What I can say is that lived up to expectation and really helped to bring the characters to life and add to the story in subtle ways.Who was your favorite character and why?
Due to the way Scott Card uses third parties to convey to the reader what happens in Ender's head in the original text, Colonel Graff takes an even larger role and could easily be my favourite character - especially read so brilliantly by Stefan Rudnicki who is one of the greatest narrators I have had the pleasure of listening to.Which character – as performed by Full Cast Recording – was your favourite?
See above - Graff by Stefan Rudnicki.Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Having already trodden the entire path of the Ender Universe, one cannot help but be emotionally attached to the central characters and this performance only adds to that. To isolate any particular emotion would be to diminish the impact of the performance.Any additional comments?
I implore anyone to continue the journey. But go through the Shadow Saga next, then Ender in Exile and then pick up the thread of Ender's story with Speaker for the Dead. it is one of the greatest stories ever told and finishing the saga makes you feel like you've just said goodbye to your closest group of friends. I had to go back and do them all again to satisfy my need for more!An excellent adaptation of the original.
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great!
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very interesting and simple to follow
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There were a few places where particular voices grated but this is only a small criticism. On the whole, listening to EGA is like listening to a different recording of your favourite symphony: while it is the same it is somehow different. If you haven't read or listened to the original Ender's Game (and I don't mean the movie which actually compresses something like 5 years and two people's accounts, into a matter of weeks), then EGA is a good introduction but to experience the original is a must. Personally, I find Ender's Game an incredible creation and I'm still trying to fathom why! When a kiddy in a Sci-fi novel inspires you to be a better human... Isn't that one of the characteristics of 'great art?'
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, its a book that is very different in that its an interactive radio play version of a book that some feel is stilted. I think this medium works really well and if you have seen the recent movie or read the book this is a great complimentary release.What was one of the most memorable moments of Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay?
The war sequences are achieved really well. The cleverness of the ideas with the teams is realised well within the audiobook/playWhat about Full Cast Recording’s performance did you like?
Yes it was a really good performance across the whole groupDid you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Not really, I suppose its one of those books that makes you wonder ..... more than anythingAny additional comments?
highly recommended... a great start for Enders Game
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