Ender's Game (Ender Quartet)
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.
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-19-2009
- Not a Sci-fi fan, but loved this book anyway...
At the tender age of six, Ender Wiggin is taken from his home by the military to train. Ender is a genius and Earth's last hope for survival if a third war with the buggers, aliens that resemble large ants, comes to pass. The humans...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-19-2009
- Best Novel Ever? Nope.
I received this book as a gift from a very well-read friend who shares very similar interests as me. I was advised this book was one of the best novels ever written. Unfortunately I received terrible advice.This book follows the tales of...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-17-2009
- Read it over and over...
A book that benefits from multiple reads. I read this book twice and year and find something new in it every time. Makes me grateful for the choices I have in my life and hopeful that I will do better with them.
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-04-2009
- Ender's Game - A Classic
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is set in a 22nd Century Earth that has suffered invasion by aliens. Having repelled the invasions, Earth is preparing to take the war to the enemy. It is believed that the best hope for successfully...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-19-2009
- Not a Sci-fi fan, but loved this book anyway...
At the tender age of six, Ender Wiggin is taken from his home by the military to train. Ender is a genius and Earth's last hope for survival if a third war with the buggers, aliens that resemble large ants, comes to pass. The humans...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-01-2009
- A rare middle of the road review
"Ender's Game" is the type of book that incites profound passion in the readers; either they absolutely love it and think it is the greatest sci-fi novel ever written (actually Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous With Rama" is the greatest...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-19-2009
- Best Novel Ever? Nope.
I received this book as a gift from a very well-read friend who shares very similar interests as me. I was advised this book was one of the best novels ever written. Unfortunately I received terrible advice.This book follows the tales of...
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