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Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0765342294 (ISBN13: 9780765342294)
Once Again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a front assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens.
Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child.
Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the mochild.
Once Again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a front assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens.
Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child.
Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius among geniuses. In simulated war games he excels. But is the pressure and loneliness taking its toll on Ender? Simulations are one thing. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions? After all, Battle School is just a game.
Paperback, First Starscape Edition (US / CAN), 324 pages
Published February 2002 by Starscape (first published 1985)
Ender's Saga #1, Enderverse: Publication Order #1, The Enderverse #6 , more
Dink, Bernard, Valentine Wiggin, Peter Wiggin, Mazer Rackham...more, Alai, Hyrum Graff, Andrew Wiggin, Petra Arkanian, "Bean", Major Anderson, Bonzo, Major Imbu...less
Hugo Award for Best Novel (1986), Nebula Award for Best Novel (1985), Nébula (1985)
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If you're trying to get into some good old fashion bigoted science fiction writing is this a good book?
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Brian Beasley Gina I think you took Master's question too seriously and missed the word "bigoted" in the question.
To Master I take it you are being…moreGina I think you took Master's question too seriously and missed the word "bigoted" in the question.
To Master I take it you are being sarcastic with your question but I will bite anyways. I don't know why people accuse this book of the things they do (actually I do). Yes, Card is a conservative and he's admittedly a homophobe as well but neither of those things come through in this book. You have to look pretty hard to find anything "bigoted" in the book and the themes in Ender's Game have nothing to do with any sort of bigot revolution or anything. If anything there is a strong pacifist message that you would think would be the opposite of most conservative's mentalities. (less)
This series confuses me... Okay, I really want to read Ender's Game, but I'm not sure in what order I should. Can anyone help me out and clear somethings up?
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Zchantie I know this is an old question, but I wanted to add to it since I read the books in an order that I regretted.
So you have the first…moreI know this is an old question, but I wanted to add to it since I read the books in an order that I regretted.
So you have the first Series: 'The Ender Quintet'
2. Speaker for the Dead
4. Children of the Mind
The parallel series that follows the character Bean who appears in the first Ender's Game book and then gets his own series known as the "Shadow Saga"
2. Shadow of the Hedgemon
4. Shadow of the Giant
5. Shadows in Flight
Then there is the 5th book of the Ender's Quintet called "Ender in Exile" which actually takes place between "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead". I read this book directly after Ender's Game (as suggested) and regretted it immensely.
Within this book is also an important part of Bean's story. If you have any interest at all of reading The Shadow Saga, DO NOT READ Ender in Exile. As then you will know the end fate of all of the characters in Shadow Saga.
My recommendation. Read Ender in Exile after you've finished both series if you're interested in knowing what Ender was doing between the end of Game and beginning of Speaker.(less)
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Apr 16, 2013 Anrie rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Dis nou al so 10+ jaar wat ek hierdie boek op my "boeke om te lees" lys gehad het. Buiten die naam, outeur en genre het ek egter nie veel daaroor geweet nie.
Die verhaal vind in die toekoms plaas, in 'n tydperk waar die aarde onder bedreiging is van die "Buggers": 'n insek-agtige nasie wat die mensdom al twee keer vantevore aangeval het. Met die hoop om 'n einde aan hierdie bedreiging te maak, is 'n internasionale militêre skool opgestel, waar die wêreld se talentvolste en uiters geni Dis nou al so 10+ jaar wat ek hierdie boek op my "boeke om te lees" lys gehad het. Buiten die naam, outeur en genre het ek egter nie veel daaroor geweet nie.
Die verhaal vind in die toekoms plaas, in 'n tydperk waar die aarde onder bedreiging is van die "Buggers": 'n insek-agtige nasie wat die mensdom al twee keer vantevore aangeval het. Met die hoop om 'n einde aan hierdie bedreiging te maak, is 'n internasionale militêre skool opgestel, waar die wêreld se talentvolste en uiters geniale kinders al van 'n jong ouderdom opgelei word. Ender is een van hierdie kinders. Meer wil ek nie verklap nie.
Orson Scott Card is 'n omstrede skrywer; hy is 'n toegewyde Mormoon wat homself dikwels uitspreek as anti-homoseksueel. Ender's Game weerspieël egter geen van hierdie sienings nie (alhoewel ek al verskeie plekke gelees het dat die opvolg, Speaker for the Dead, wél baie prekerig is). Daar is wel 'n ligte anti-feministiese lyn deur die boek: Ender word vertel dat vrouens, benadeel deur eeue se evolusie, nie die intelligensie, deursettingsvermoë of krag van mans het nie. (Hy noem nie hierdie eienskappe direk nie, maar dit is dié wat mens nodig het vir die militêre opleiding.) Die één meisie wat Ender dan op die skool ontmoet, is ook die eerste en enigste van sy kamerade om tydens 'n oorlogspel 'n senuwee-ineenstorting te kry. Ag, foei.
Die verhaal is boeiend, alhoewel ander resensente opmerk dat dit wel eentonig kan word. Ek het dit egter nie so ervaar nie. Wat my wel getref het, is hoe onvolwasse baie van die kinders is: vir uiters geniale kinders met gevorderde intelligensie en kennis, tree die oorgrote meerderheid nog steeds soos die bullebak van die laerskool op.
Daar is ook gevalle van, soos Roger Ebert dit noem, 'n "idiot plot": waar iets gebeur en normale mense daarna sal verwys of daaroor praat, maar nie in die boek nie. Die verhouding tussen Ender en sy broer en suster - en ook dié tussen Peter en Valentine, self - is so 'n geval.
Ook verdien die outeur 'n pluimpie vir sy toekomsvoorspellings: die boek is in 1985 geskryf en in die milieu van die verhaal speel tablet-agtige rekenaars 'n groot rol, asook "blogs" en die Internet.
Alhoewel die karakters in die boek hoofsaaklik kinders is, is dit geensins 'n kinderboek nie: die ouderdomsaanbevelings wat ek gesien het strek van 10-12, maar ek sal dit definitief eers vanaf 13-14 aanbeveel. Nie soseer a.g.v. die geweld of intense gebeurtenisse nie, maar ook omdat ouer kinders/tieners beter die politiese gebeurtenisse sal verstaan en ook die sosiale dinamiek kan waardeer. ...more
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About Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.
Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry(Stone(Magic Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.
Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts.
Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.
Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.
For further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.
For an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card.
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“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” — 4012 likes
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.” — 2205 likes
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