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Ender's Game: Author's Definitive Edition

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Ender's Game: Author's Definitive Edition

by Orson Scott Card
As told by: Orson Scott Card

Tom Doherty Associates | July 15, 1994 | Mass Market Paperbound

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut-young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.
 
Ender''s Game is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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    Ender's Game

    Noushin Nabavi

    2 months ago

    I received this book as a gift but then wondered how in the world did it go unnoticed for so long! Amazingly believable futuristic settings from the great American science fiction author published in apparently two different times, the second one being the one we read. Modern and contemporary battleship of moral and ethical issues intertwined in an exhilarating story line so entrenched in human condition, a must read. I think it should be incorporated in school itineraries like J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

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    Rating: 5/5

    WOW!!!

    michael c

    3 months ago

    Enders Game written by Orson Scott card was a fantastic book and will intrigue all readers looking for a sci-fi, action, thriller that will keep them asking for more. You will be emersed into a gripping story of courage, bravery and perseverance. Overall a fantastic book I give it a 5\5

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    Rating: 5/5

    Terrific!!!

    Harrison Clark

    3 months ago

    Ender's Game, written by Orson Scott Card is a must read book for any fan or Science Fiction reader. Based in the far future, a young boy named Ender Wiggin has to overcome all of his fears to end the fight between the humans and the Buggers. With crazy situations and outcomes you could not think possible, this book has it all. From zero gravity fights to commanding fleets, Ender's Game keeps you on your feet and eager for more. Written sensationally for anyone who is looking for an action packed story with brilliant different ideas. Defiantly worth reading. 5 stars, 10/10!

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    Ethan T

    A must read! Ender gets made fun of and beaten up for being a third born. He is brought to a battle school with the most intelligent kids in the world and everyone is determined that he will be the one to defeat a dangerous alien race. Being pushed past his limit by teachers, friends, and enemies, Ender is tricked into defeating the aliens known as the buggers. I certainly loved this book and recommend it to anyone who appreciates any genre. I advise that this story is mainly suitable for teenagers and adults. This book is a brilliant story of perseverance, friendship, and courage. I could not put it down to brush my teeth!

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    Pleiades

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    Ender's Game

    Pleiades

    13 years ago

    A completely mesmerizing novel. This is my #1 book for a lot of reasons. I enjoy the main character, Ender and I find him believable, his story touched me, the story is writen to be accessable to a large range of reading levels, and I can't get enough of him! I recomend this novel to everyone.

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The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic--the revised, definitive edition, from the bestselling author of Xenocide. Ender's Game is the story of Ender Wiggin, a boy genetically engineered to be a superior military mind, and bred to win Earth's long war with an alien insectoid race by completely destroying their homeworld

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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race''s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn''t make the cut-young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender''s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender''s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.
 
Ender''s Game is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

About the Author

Orson Scott Card is a bestselling science fiction and fantasy author. His novels Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; his most recent novel, The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.  Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.

Mass Market Paperbound

352 Pages, 4.26 x 6.72 x 0.92 in

July 15, 1994

Tom Doherty Associates


0812550706
9780812550702

From the Critics

"Card has taken the venerable sf concepts of a superman and interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers-a major sf novel by any reasonable standards."-Booklist

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