The Investment Counselor

Investment Counselor is a science fiction short story by Orson Scott Card. It is part of the Ender's Game series, and tells of the first meeting of Ender and Jane. It can be found in the book First Meetings. In this story, it has been 400 years since the end of the Formic War and Ender has just turned 20. He has inherited all his assets from the fund set up for the hero of the war. It seems he needs to pay massive taxes on them. He is about to be cheated by a greedy tax accountant, when he meets Jane, who comes to him in the form of junk mail (seemingly a piece of humor on her part.) She helps him with his taxes, and prevents the tax accountant from exposing Andrew's identity as the Ender Wiggin, which Ender fears because the world now despises him (ironically, this is because of his own writings, which no one knows he wrote, as he wrote them under the pen name of "The Speaker for the Dead"). At Jane's suggestion, Ender becomes an itinerant Speaker for the Dead, and his long friendship with Jane begins. Investment Counselor

 

<< PreviousWord BrowserNext >>
hms griffin (h31)
assisted take off
bleu nuit (television series)
hms grenville (h03)
jam 1575
john stevens (engineer)
hms grenade (h86)
hms hunter (h35)
sid richardson college
blow fly
hms hasty (h24)
strike anywhere
earl of kildare
hms havock (h43)
bob and margaret
north west europe
flesh fly
the polish boy
hms hardy
teacher's pest
west highland white terrier
faust vrancic
pansy division
hms hesperus (h57)
personal union
hms maori (f24)
pinhead gunpowder
ralph j. canine
matt freeman
brett reed
an lushan
first meetings
ieee 1076
ops5
elizebeth friedman
renaud schan
erika blanc
coat of arms of bulgaria
emmanuelle arsan
herbert yardley
coat of arms of burundi
ed townsend
jalapeo
escort (magazine)