An edition of Ender's Game (1985)

Ender's Game

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An edition of Ender's Game (1985)

Ender's Game

  • 4.34 ·
  • 345 Ratings
  • 800 Want to read
  • 57 Currently reading
  • 474 Have read

Winner 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.

Ender's Game is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

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La stratégie Ender
2013, J'ai Lu
Paperback in French - Movie tie-in edition
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Ender's Game
2013, ATOM
Paperback in English - Reprint
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Ender's game
2013, Tor
paperback in English - Second Tor teen edition; movie tie-in
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El juego de Ender
2009-06, Zeta Bolsillo
Paperback in Spanish - 1a reimpression
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El Juego de Ender
2005, Paw Prints
Library Binding in Spanish - 1st reimpression
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Ender's Game
2005, Orbit
Mass Market Paperback in English - Reprint
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Ender's Game
2004-04-01, Macmillan Audio
Digital Audio in English
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Ender's Game
2003?, TOR
mass market paperback in English - Author's Definitive Edition; 1994 Revised mass market edition (17)
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Ender's Game
2002, Paw Prints
library binding in English - First Starscape edition (15)
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Ender's Game
2001?, TOR
Mass Market Paperback in English - Author's Definitive Edition, Revised mass market edition (12)
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Το παιχνίδι του Ἐντερ
1996, Medousa-Selas Ekdotike

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Edition Notes

Series
The Ender Quintet (Volume 1)

Contributors

Narrator
Stefan Rudnicki
Narrator
Harlan Ellison
Narrator
Cast

The Physical Object

Format
Digital Audio

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26457489M
ISBN 10
1593974752
ISBN 13
9781593974756
OCLC/WorldCat
1007572999, 899992550
Scribd
237940232
Goodreads
40405754

Work Description

Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers". In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, are trained from a very young age by putting them through increasingly difficult games, including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed.

The book originated as a short story of the same name, published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The novel was published on January 15, 1985. Later, by elaborating on characters and plotlines depicted in the novel, Card was able to write additional books in the Ender's Game series. Card also released an updated version of Ender's Game in 1991, changing some political facts to reflect the times more accurately (e.g., to include the recent collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War). The novel has been translated into 34 languages.

Reception of the book has been mostly positive. It has become suggested reading for many military organizations, including the United States Marine Corps. Ender's Game was recognized as "best novel" by the 1985 Nebula Award[3] and the 1986 Hugo Award[4] in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Its four sequels—Speaker for the Dead (1986), Xenocide (1991), Children of the Mind (1996), and Ender in Exile (2008)—follow Ender's subsequent travels to many different worlds in the galaxy. In addition, the later novella A War of Gifts (2007) and novel Ender's Shadow (1999), plus other novels in the Shadow saga, take place during the same time period as the original.


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