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Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
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Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) Unknown - 1994

by Card, Orson Scott


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Ender Wiggin, a child prodigy is recruited by the military to attend Battle School in order to prepare for a potential alien invasion. As Ender rises through the ranks and becomes a leader among his peers, he must navigate the complex politics and brutal training that await him, all while struggling with his own identity and sense of morality. Along the way, Ender forges relationships with other students, including his closest allies, Petra and Bean, and his tormentors, Bonzo and Stilson. As the story progresses, Ender's skills are put to the ultimate test when he is chosen to lead the final battle against the alien race known as the Formics. Through Ender's experiences, the novel explores themes of leadership, identity, and the consequences of war in a futuristic and complex setting, while also providing a thrilling and thought-provoking tale of survival and sacrifice.


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From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game--adapted to film in 2013 starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford--is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war.

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. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series
Ender's Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind Ender's Shadow series
Ender's Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Children of the Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
The Swarm /The Hive Ender novellas
A War of Gifts /First Meetings

First line

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

First Edition Identification

Tor Books published the First Edition, First Printing hardcover in 1985, New York. Cover Art by John Harris with Jacket design by Suzanne Lobel. 


Century published a First UK Edition, First Printing hardcover in 1985, England.


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  • Title Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
  • Author Card, Orson Scott
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 384
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tor Science Fiction, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date July 15, 1994
  • ISBN 9780812550702

About the author

Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and it's many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into The Ender Saga, the five books that chronicle the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, that follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and are set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, that tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien Buggers. Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977--the short story Gert Fram in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of Ender's Game in the August issue of Analog. The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin. Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University. He is the author many sf and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), There are also stand-alone science fiction and fantasy novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's recent work includes the Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old. Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.

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