Jane (Ender's Game)

In Orson Scott Card's Ender series, Jane is an artificial sentience thought to exist within the ansible network by which spaceships and planets communicate in realtime across galactic distances. She has appeared in the novels Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, and in a short story The Investment Counselor. Her 'face', a computer generated hologram that she uses to talk to Ender, is described as plain and young, and it is illustrated in First Meetings as having a bun.

Related Topics:
Orson Scott Card - Artificial sentience - Ansible - Spaceship - Planet - Speaker for the Dead - Xenocide - Children of the Mind - The Investment Counselor - First Meetings

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This article is arranged to reflect the Ender timeline. However, the Ender Quartet: Speaker for the Dead (1986), Xenocide (1990), and Children of the Mind (1994) was written first; then Ender's Shadow (1999), First Meetings (2004), and Shadow of the Giant (2005).

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