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| Part No: | 0765342294 |
| Manufacturer: | Starscape |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9780765342294
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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. Back on Earth, Peter and Valentine forge an intellectual alliance and attempt to change the course of history.
This futuristic tale involves aliens, political discourse on the Internet, sophisticated computer games, and an orbiting battle station. Yet the reason it rings true for so many is that it is first and foremost a tale of humanity; a tale of a boy struggling to grow up into someone he can respect while living in an environment stripped of choices. Ender's Game is a must-read book for science fiction lovers, and a key conversion read for their friends who "don't read science fiction."
Ender's Game won both the Hugo and the Nebula the year it came out. Writer Orson Scott Card followed up this honor with the first-time feat of winning both awards again the next year for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. --Bonnie Bouman
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.
| Unbelievably bad | 2010-03-05 | 1 / 5 |
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This may be the worst book of science fiction/fantasy I ever finished. I should have dumped it after the first fifty pages, but I kept thinking it had to get better based on all the awards it won and the rave reviews. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the books is absolutely terrible.
You should know that this book is geared almost entirely to pre-teens. And it is so far fetched as to be laughable. Now I realize that Star Wars is far-fetched too, but that's not what I'm saying here. It's the whole premise--the idea that the military is going to scout grade school looking for the next great world leader. But they're not trying to get them through high school--heck no, that would be too late--the really good commanders peak around age nine, right?
The vast majority of this book is spent recording the military training of Ender Wiggins. This training is almost exclusively in a zero gravity chamber where teams of little kids battle with their "freeze suits". Somehow this is supposed to prepare them for battling the insect-like hordes of aliens that are warring with Earth. In reality, this training has nothing to do with anything. It's brainless, repetitious and so utterly abstract as to be meaningless. "Ender kicks of a wall, does a double backflip. The team forms a ring--no one saw that coming. Wow--Ender won again. This kid's a genius!" Yeah, it really is that bad. And it goes on, and on, and on.
Trust me, this is one you want to skip. |
| Scifi masterpiece | 2010-03-03 | 5 / 5 |
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| Ender's Game is a scifi masterpiece, with a psychological twist. Fantastic read! It's surprisingly meaty for young adult literature. This book should be mandatory in every high school. |
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I kept putting this book at the bottom of my TBR since I had so many to read but then I picked it for my reading challenge and I am so glad that I did. I ended up loving this book to my complete surprise.
Enders Game takes place in another time and deals with planets, new creatures, and interplanetary traveling. I have never been a fan of "starship trooper" type books but this one grabs you from the beginning. Ender is the worlds only hope of surviving another war with the buggers (a type of alien). Ender is only 6 when he enters the training school and you get to see him develop into a world class hero. As with all hero's he has his faults and can be quite scary but in the end he steps up to the plate. I wish he would have been older when he was picked but I understand that this is set in another time.
I really enjoyed this book and I will continue on with the series. |
| This needs to be made into a movie!!! | 2010-02-27 | 5 / 5 |
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| Ender's Game = must read. This book should be on all of the mandatory high school reading lists. Excellent story plot with a few one liners that make you think. This is a sci-fi classic. |
| Incredible book-different and captivating at the same time. | 2010-02-25 | 5 / 5 |
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I picked up Enders Game last month simply based on the premise alone-that someone could prepare for war by playing games. I thought it would be a simple, cute, quick read. Have I ever been more wrong? It was an incredible look into the psyche of someone snatched from their family and trained for battle from their childhood. Orson Scott Card captures the arrogance, humor and frailties of the defense structure with brilliance. I could not put Enders Game down and when I later learned that there were more books in the series (just finished Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)) it was like Christmas.
The ending battle may have been a little predictable, but the Giant's game and Speaker for the Dead ending really let the reader escape a perhaps unsatisfying conclusion.
As for Mr. Card's writing style, I found his American Plain Style captivating and straight forward which are two reason (along with the sensational plot) to keep me riveted turning pages. Bravo!
Sam Hendricks, author of Fantasy Football Tips and Fantasy Football Guidebook
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