Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Ender's Game by 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 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 psychologicalbattles 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.
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A boy named Ender has been chosen to help Starways Congress in their quest to defeat the Alien race - the buggers. His sister Valentine is very sweet and Ender Loves her but he has an older brother Peter and ender is afraid of him. Peter beats ender up and Ender hates it. A member from Starways Congress has been watching his test scores and would like to bring him up to the spacestation to train him for war. His parents want him to go but the guy from Starways Congress-Colonel Graff would like him to. He decides to go. He gets up to the spacestation and all of the kids dislike him because Mr. Graff has tried to isolate and make him a teachers pet. He is doing great up at Battle School. They introduce all of the new kids to the Battle Room, the zero gravity training room where they all learn to fight. He gets his own squad and is advancing all of the time but the buggers are very close and ready for battle
ReplyDeleteWill Ender defeat the buggers?
Will anyone Die?
Read the book to find out
I loved this book and would rate this book 10/10. I would recommend it to somebody of the age 14 or older, and who loves and action and drama. There is 11 more books in the series and they are all great to.