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.