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"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
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Winer 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.
# Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
# Publisher: Tor Science Fiction; Eighth Printing edition (July 15, 1994)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0812550706
# ISBN-13: 978-0812550702
MY THOUGHTS: I don't read Sc-Fi very often. But I thought I would try a challenge out so I could do that. This is a series of books by Mr. Card. This is the first book in the series. I really enjoyed the character of Ender. He is a 6 year old boy that is being trained to rule the military. To help end the war with the Buggers. Ender is very smart and he uses his logic to figure out what is what. He is also an outsider in the military school. And he doesn't make friends easily. So he has some problems as he moves through the ranks. Which he does pretty fast. Most of the other kids are really jealous of Ender. But Ender does make some friends along the way. But is Ender the one that will save the Earth? Does Ender become a General? You'll have to read the book to find out.
MY RATING: 5
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Ender's Game was my first experience with Orson Scott Card and I loved it. I was sucked right in and could not put it down. I immediately went on and read Speaker for the Dead, an even better novel about Ender's continuing adventures. Highly recommend it. I'm so glad you enjoyed this. It is a novel people often recommend to those who don't read science fiction regularly and I do think it is a good gateway book in that regard while also being a stellar, pardon the pun, example of what the genre has to offer.
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