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Ender's Game Series Characters: List of Battle School Students, List of Ender's Game Characters, Ender Wiggin, Peter Wiggin
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-07.
ISBN 9781155796673
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Battle School Students, List of Ender's Game Characters, Ender Wiggin, Peter Wiggin, List of International Fleet Personnel, Jane, Achilles de Flandres, si Wang-Mu, Bean, Valentine Wiggin, Han Tzu, the Hive Queen, Petra Arkanian, Theresa Wiggin, John Paul Wiggin, Alai, Han Qing-Jao, Sergeant. Excerpt: Achilles de Flandres is a major character and the primary antagonist in Orson Scott Card 's Shadow series (also known as the Bean Quartet). It is part of the universe created in the novel and short story Ender's Game . Achilles appears in the novels Ender's Shadow , Shadow of the Hegemon , Shadow Puppets , and Shadow of the Giant . A native of Belgium , Achilles grows up in the dangerous streets of Rotterdam in the Netherlands . At the start of the series, the Netherlands is under international jurisdiction during the global emergency of the Formic or Bugger Wars. This leads to an influx of refugee children of which Achilles is one. He is depicted as a brilliant sociopath whose tactical genius and powerful charisma pose a major threat to humanity. Achilles' name is pronounced like the French Achille, "ah-SHEEL, " as opposed to the Greek Achilles , whose name is pronounced "ah-KILL-eeze." Ender's Shadow Near the beginning of the series, Achilles is established as an enemy of one of the main characters, Julian "Bean" Delphiki , another citizen of Rotterdam. Both Achilles and Bean are considered for Battle School , the training ground for Earth's interstellar military; Bean is accepted, but Achilles is deemed too unstable and violent. Achilles is later sent to Battle School simply as a test for Bean: Colonel Graff wants to see how Bean will deal with the resurfacing of his old nemesis from Rotterdam. It is suggested the Achilles is not aware at this point that Bean thinks him a
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