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Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Tom Doherty Associates | February 18, 2002 | 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 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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Rating: 5/5

Great SF book

Darth Indurate

5 months ago

Orson Scott Card's classic SF novel came highly recommended to me (by my cousin and my brother) and the book did not disappoint. While I felt the outcome to the war with the aliens was predictable, the final twist (sorry, not going to spoil it for you) was unexpected and easily opened the door for further Ender adventures, which of course, there are several already. What I really liked was the "Clockwork Orange"-like approach to training the young Ender to become the greatest military genius / strategist the world has ever known. Young Ender Wiggin goes through a labyrinth of "games", some viscious, some intellectual, in creating a warrior capable to defend the Earth from the "evil" alien invaders. And along the way, the boy soldier realizes how little he wants to be the world's saviour and also how little choice he has in the matter. Very interesting, even for an adult even though the book was clearly written for a YA audience. Great SF nonetheless.

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