Ender’s Game – Orson
Scott Card
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 form 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 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 the world. If, that is, the
world survives.
4/5 stars (really liked it)
My son and I read this book together. Although I found that the battles were
repetitive by the end of the book I understood why all those battles were in
the book. The book starts out with
Ender being 7 years old and going in Battle School. Everything that happens to him, from being isolated and
constantly being tested is done by the teachers to make him the perfect general
to defeat the Buggers. By the end of
the book Ender is 11 years old and ready for the Bugger war. Although the ending surprised me quite a
bit. I will definitely be reading the
next books in this series.
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