Title: A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
Title Record # 659121
Author: Orson Scott Card
Date: 2007-10-30
Variant Title of: A War of Gifts [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION [juvenile]
Length: novella
Series: Ender's Universe
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: science fiction (1)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Date: 2007-10-30
Variant Title of: A War of Gifts [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION [juvenile]
Length: novella
Series: Ender's Universe
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: 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.
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- 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
- 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
- The average for those two pages is 193 words per page.
- 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.
- That works out to an estimated 19,107 words which was rounded up to 20,000 words.
"The War of Gifts (An Ender Story)" © 2007 Orson Scott Card. First published in A War of Gifts, novella hardback, by Tor Books. This is its first anthology appearance, and the first in a form slightly abridged by the author.
Current Tags: science fiction (1)
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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A War of Gifts: An Ender Story | 2007-10-30 | Orson Scott Card | Macmillan Audio | 1-4272-0199-4 | $10.99?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
chap | |||
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story | 2007-11-00 | Orson Scott Card | Tor | 978-0-7653-1282-2 | $12.95?$: US dollar |
126 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | John Harris | |
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story | 2007-11-00 | Orson Scott Card | Tor / SFBC | $9.99?$: US dollar |
126 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | John Harris | ||
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story | 2007-11-00 | Orson Scott Card | Audio Renaissance | 1-59397-631-3 | $19.95?$: US dollar |
audio CD?Compact disc with standard audio tracks |
chap | John Harris | ||
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story | 2009-10-00 | Orson Scott Card | Tor | 978-0-7653-5899-8 | $5.99?$: US dollar |
196 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
chap | John Harris | |
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story | 2013-00-00 | Orson Scott Card | Tor | 978-0-7653-1282-2 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
126 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | John Harris |
Reviews
- Review by Carolyn Cushman (2008) in Locus, #564 January 2008
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (2008) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2008