Investment Counselor (short story)
- Investment Counselor (short story)
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name = Investment Counselor
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author = Orson Scott Card
country = United States
language = English
series = Ender's Game series
genre = Science fiction
published_in = "Far Horizons"
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publisher = Avon Books
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pub_date = 1999
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"Investment Counselor" is a story by Orson Scott Card set in his Ender's Game universe. It tells the story of how Ender Wiggin first met the artificial intelligence Jane and became a speaker for the dead. It first appeared in the anthology "Far Horizons" edited by Robert Silverberg and then later in Card's short story collection "First Meetings".
Plot summary
Andrew Wiggin had just turned twenty when he arrived at the planet Sorreledolce which meant that he would have to file a tax return on the trust fund given to him by the International Fleet at the end of the Bugger war. When he showed his list of investments to the tax collector the man immediately started thinking about how he was going to steal some of it. Later on while Andrew was trying to figure out his taxes he received an email offering him financial software. When he opened it a woman's head calling itself Jane appears on his computer screen and offered to help him with his finances. A couple of days later Andrew's sister Valentine took him to a speaking. While there he talked to the speaker for the dead and found out how he got started. Later Andrew decided to use the Jane program. When he went to the tax office with the forms Jane had created for him, the tax collector he met on the first day tried to blackmail him. However when he tried to call up the proof that Andrew was Ender the Xenocide on his computer he found that the files had mysteriously disappeared. When he tried do research on Andrew he found that all the public data on him was no longer available. After doing his first speaking for the tax collector Andrew and his sister left Sorelledolce.
Characters
*Andrew "Ender" Wiggin
*Valentine Wiggin – Ender's sister
*Benedetto – a tax collector
*Abyssinian hunter - unnamed
*Jane – an artificial intelligence
*People at a speaking – unnamed
*A speaker for the dead - unnamed
References
*"Investment Counselor" by Orson Scott Card
*The Hatrack Orson Scott Card's official website.
External links
* [http://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/firstmeetings/firstmeetings.shtml About the story "Investment Counselor"] - from Card's website
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