All 24 Uses of
Eros
in
Ender's Game
- I.F. Command is on the minor planet Eros, which should be about three months away from here at the highest possible speed.†
Chpt 13 *
- Eros?†
Chpt 13
- So when we arrive at Eros, you will undoubtedly be assigned to permanent duty there.†
Chpt 13
- By the way, you should be aware, in case you're one of those who relies on visuals for docking, that Eros has been blacked out.†
Chpt 13
- The tug reached Eros before they could see it.†
Chpt 13
- They were practically on top of it--only four thousand kilometers out--but Eros, only twenty-four kilometers long, was invisible if it didn't shine with reflected sunlight.†
Chpt 13
- The captain docked the ship on one of the three landing platforms that circled Eros.†
Chpt 13
- It could not land directly because Eros had enhanced gravity, and the tug, designed for towing cargos, could never escape the gravity well.†
Chpt 13
- When they boarded the shuttle that would take them to the surface of Eros they repeated perverse misquotations of lines from the videos that the captain had endlessly watched, and laughed like madmen.†
Chpt 13
- Ender hated Eros from the moment he shuttled down from the tug.†
Chpt 14
- He had been uncomfortable enough on Earth, where floors were flat; Eros was hopeless.†
Chpt 14
- From the start, Ender was plagued by vertigo as he walked through the tunnels, especially the ones that girdled Eros's narrow circumference.†
Chpt 14
- He looked to be about sixty, by far the oldest man Ender had seen on Eros.†
Chpt 14
- Sometimes Ender wondered if he were mentally ill, escaped from some medical ward somewhere in Eros, living out some insane fantasy here in Ender's room.†
Chpt 14
- I think they all hate me because, after they saw these videos, they had to live out the rest of their natural lives here on Eros.†
Chpt 14
- What evidence is there in Eros?†
Chpt 14
- In a period of three days, Eros gradually disappeared from telescopes.†
Chpt 14
- There are Russian marines all over Eros, and the Polemarch is Russian.†
Chpt 14
- Locke is the one who argued for Ender to stay on Eros.†
Chpt 15
- For a time, the only work in Eros was cleaning up after the bloody League War and receiving the reports of the starships, once warships, that were now exploring the bugger colony worlds.†
Chpt 15
- But now Eros was busier than ever, more crowded than it had ever been during the war, as colonists were brought here to prepare for their voyages to the empty bugger worlds.†
Chpt 15
- He wasn't inside Eros that day.†
Chpt 15
- I was hoping, though, that someone I knew on Eros might come with me.†
Chpt 15
- Mazer accepted a few hours ago, back in Eros.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(Eros from Greek mythology) Greek mythology: god of love; son of Aphrodite