Ender's Game (Paperback)
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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 l......more
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 cutyoung 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.
- Author:
- Card, Orson Scott
- Series Title:
- Ender
- Genre:
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General
- Audience:
- Young adult
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 324
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Starscape
- Publish Date:
- 02/18/2002
- Copyright Year:
- 1992
- ISBN:
- 9780765342294
- Height:
- 7.75 in
- Wdth:
- 5.5 in
- Thickness:
- 1.0 in
- Unit weight:
- 0.5 lb
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This is an excellent book. I have read it before. Used to have a copy but loaned it to someone and never got it back so I really wanted another copy because its one of my favorite books. Anyway I'm very happy to have a new copy of it to loan out to new friends again.
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we ordered this book for a teenage book club. It is nice to have your own copy without trying to fight over the ones at the library.
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Awesome book! One of the best I have ever read! Note that this is a "big" paperback (an inch or so wider than a regular paperback) that doesn't fit in your hand like other paperbacks. It's a great book at a great price, though.
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