Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00006JMD2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 413 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Reading Guide for Ender's Game.THE ENDER UNIVERSEEnder's Series: Ender Wiggin: The finest general the world could hope to find or breed. Earth Unaware, Earth Afire.Ender Novellas A War of Gifts, First Meetings.The Authorized Ender Companion: A complete and in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things, and events in Orson Scott Card’s Ender Universe.. The following Ender's Shadow Series titles are listed in order: Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Shadows in Flight.The First Formic War Series: One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. These are the stories of the First Formic War. The following Ender's Series titles are listed in order: Ender's Game, Ender In Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenoci
Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsIn order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. 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. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. 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.. 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. His psychological battles
Simply one of the best written series ever. Patrick Jones This review is for the entire book series, not just the Ender series since this is normally where everyone starts reading them. This is a series with a fascinating lore grounded in a realm of reality. While it is technically sci-fi a lot of times I forget that completely. The books are centered around the third Formic war and tell the stories (mainly about Ender) of the children raised and trained in a special command school and their exploits after the war is complete. I have to say though, of all the authors I. "Loved It - Though More Art of War Than Hunger Games" according to L. Erickson. Although I'm a fan of both sci-fi and YA dystopian lit, I had somehow never read this book. Based on what I had heard about it, I was expecting something more along the lines of Hunger Games. However, as I say in my review title, I think this is more Sun Tzu's Art of War than Hunger Games. I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the book - I found it to be a real page-turner, and I truly grew to care for the main character Ender. It holds up both as a fun read and as thought-provoking literature.The sci-fi is more . rizaroza said Remember that boy who always killed bugs for no good reason??. This novel was incredibly difficult to put down. I decided to read Ender's Game because of all the great reviews. I don't believe in being genre specific, so I try my best to read a bit of everything; and I am glad I gave this YA Sci-Fi a try (yes, the rhyming was intentional). Ender's Game is rooted in a clichéd plotline (bug-like aliens have attempted an invasion, and earthlings must come together to fight this infestation from outer space. I'm starting to think Sci-Fi is more about our unfathomable hat