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Title: A War of Gifts Title Record # 2260895
Author: Orson Scott Card
Date: 2007-10-30
Type: SHORTFICTION [juvenile]
Length: novella
Series: Ender's Universe
Language: English
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2007ⓘThe word count is estimated to be 20,000 which makes this a short novella. Here's are the word estimation using the Tor hardcover first edition.<ul><li>Page 13 has 206 words; The word count per line is 11+7+8+10+3+9+8+10+11+8+10+10+6+13+12+10+2+9+11+10+2+9+8+9</li><li>Page 91 has 180 words; The word count per line is 9+12+1+10+4+7+9+9+9+8+8+3+9+5+10+9+7+7+2+8+9+8+2+9+6</li><li>The average for those two pages is 193 words per page.</li><li>The story runs from pages 11 to 126 (116 pages of text) but 21 of those are either blank or have minimal text and so the total page count was adjusted to 99 full pages of text.</li><li>That works out to an estimated 19,107 words which was rounded up to 20,000 words.</li></ul> This story is also available in a slightly abridged form as <a href="http:///www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2017444"><i>The War of Gifts</i></a> (2016). The copyright acknowledgements on page 355 of <a href="http:///www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?574001"><i>Decision Points</i></a> states: <blockquote>"The War of Gifts (An Ender Story)" &copy; 2007 Orson Scott Card. First published in <i>A War of Gifts</i>, novella hardback, by Tor Books. This is its first anthology appearance, and the first in a form slightly abridged by the author.</blockquote>
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story

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A War of Gifts 2017-11-28 Orson Scott Card Tor Teen 978-0-7653-9829-1
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