Orson Scott Card offers a christmas gift to his millions of fans with, a short novel set during Ender Wiggin's first years at the battle school where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come fro...Orson Scott Card offers a christmas gift to his millions of fans with, a short novel set during Ender Wiggin's first years at the battle school where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum.