Ender Series
Card first wrote Ender's Game as a novelette, but went back and expanded it into a novel so he could use Ender as a main character in another novel, Speaker for the Dead. That novel takes place three thousand years after Ender's Game, although due to relativistic space travel, Ender himself (now using his full name, Andrew) is only 36, making him only 25 years older than he was at the end of the Formic Wars.
While the first novel concerned itself with armies and space warfare, Speaker for the Dead and its two sequels Xenocide and Children of the Mind are more philosophical in nature. They deal with the difficult relationship between the humans and the "Piggies" (or "Pequeninos"), and (Ender)Andrew's attempts to stop another xenocide from happening (after the one he unwittingly committed in the Bugger War).
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story was released in October 2007. It is set during Ender's first year in Battle School.
A prequel to Speaker for the Dead named Ender in Exile was released in November 2008. It involves Ender's journey to the first colony, as well as his meeting a character from the Shadow saga, effectively wrapping up the final plotline of the parallel series.
Earth Unaware, a prequel to the entire Ender series, was released on July 17, 2012.
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