Children of the Fleet

Orson Scott Card

Oct 2017 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Rankin, Kirby Heyborne, P. J. Ochlan, Gabrielle de Cuir, Richard Gilliland, Kristoffer Tabori, and Judy Young

About this audiobook

"The ideal presentation of any book of mine is to have excellent actors perform it in audio-only format." — Orson Scott Card

"Card's phenomenal emotional depth comes through in the quiet, carefully paced speech of each performer...This is a wonderful way to experience Card's best-known and most celebrated work." — Publisher's Weekly on Ender's Game

This program is read by Stefan Rudnicki and a full cast including Emily Rankin, Kirby Heyborne, Orson Scott Card, P.J. Ochlan, Gabrielle de Cuir, Richard Gilliland, Kristoffer Tabori, and Judy Young.

From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and bestselling author of Ender's Game, his first solo Enderverse audiobook in years.

Children of the Fleet is a new angle on Card’s bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth told in the Ender’s Shadow series.

Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the International Fleet became the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station, and still recruits very smart kids to train as leaders of colony ships, and colonies.

Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. Top of his class in every school. But he doesn’t think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. That he knows of. At least until the day that Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview.

Other Series by Orson Scott Card

Ender
#1 Ender's Game / #2 Ender in Exile / #3 Speaker for the Dead / #4 Xenocide / #5 Children of the Mind

Ender's Shadow
#1 Ender's Shadow / #2 Shadow of the Hegemon / #3 Shadow Puppets / #4 Shadow of the Giant / #5 Shadows in Flight

The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
#1 Earth Unaware / #2 Earth Afire / #3 Earth Awakens

Ratings and reviews

While I'm enjoying the audiobook as far as the story, there's minor issues as far as the voice work or audio engineering. One character is read by two different people, the narrator and the characters voice actor. it can be slightly jarring because both depictions of the character sound so different that it changes their personality. Another character or two have strange audio mixes that feel like a bad attempt to make it sound like they're in a specific direction or something but it just comes across sounding a bit off. Then there's a couple that sound like they recorded their lines in a closet.aybe they recorded remotely using their own equipment so the sound is just a little off. Overall It's good, it just feels like things were poorly planned or rushed a little and the recording didn't get enough TLC.

About the author

ORSON SCOTT CARD is the author of the international bestsellers Shadow of the Giant, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Hegemon, and Ender's Shadow, and of the beloved classic of science fiction, Ender's Game, as well as the acclaimed fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.