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New York: Doubleday (1986), Hardcover
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"In Ender's Game, you'll meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, an extraordinary boy picked to compete against other gifted children in a grueling soldier-training program for humanity's 100-year war against the alien Buggers. As the pressure mounts, Ender and his remarkable siblings hold the key to victory- but the cost may be more than any of them can bear. And in Speaker for the Dead, you'll see the bitter fruit borne by his last-ditch plan to win the war as a new alien race enters the fray. Can Ender's unique gifts prevent history from repeating itself?" -- Goodreads
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LibraryThing member rakerman
Ender's Game is a complicated book. It's mostly about how to deal with bullying, but with many other threads. Published in 1985, it anticipates universally networked computers, global discussion networks, and complex computer games. It looks at shaping a person into a weapon, and has at its core
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the shifting battle games that make that possible. And then it has quite a long epilogue with a sad and hopeful conclusion. Show Less
LibraryThing member LisaMorr
Ender's War:
The first entry into the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card was very good. I didn't really know what it was about, aside from reading the info in the front cover and seeing some of the previews of the movie, and so I knew it was about using children to fight a war with an invading
Speaker for the Dead:
Great continuation to Ender's Game. I found it to be so very different from the first book, where Ender was a child forced to grow up quickly. In Speaker for the Dead, he's all grown up, and travels the universe to speak for the dead - to find out about someone who has died and present their life to those who knew him or her. It touches on similar issues from the first book - what do you do when you meet an alien species? Very well done.
The first entry into the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card was very good. I didn't really know what it was about, aside from reading the info in the front cover and seeing some of the previews of the movie, and so I knew it was about using children to fight a war with an invading
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alien, the buggers. Ender (his sister's childhood pronunciation of Andrew) was monitored early on to see if he could make it to Battle School. The instructors use every tactic in the book to see if he is the one who will lead their troops to victory. Pretty well done, but not very many developed female characters (his sister and the one female who made it to battle school). Speaker for the Dead:
Great continuation to Ender's Game. I found it to be so very different from the first book, where Ender was a child forced to grow up quickly. In Speaker for the Dead, he's all grown up, and travels the universe to speak for the dead - to find out about someone who has died and present their life to those who knew him or her. It touches on similar issues from the first book - what do you do when you meet an alien species? Very well done.
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Original publication date
1986