A quick
and fun read, Ender’s game supplies everything that makes a book worthwhile.
Orson Scott Card took his short story
from 1977 and expanded on the short story with this novelization. A science
fiction novel at heart, Card was able to do the one thing that a science
fiction novel should do: made the story believable.
The book follows 6-year old Ender Wiggin as he is molded into a Commander in the hopes that he will be able to save the world from a third invasion by an alien armada. Ender is quickly enrolled in Battle School where he is placed in a mock army with other children. Maturing with every second he spends at the Battle School, Ender learns and creates strategies as he plays the war games. At every point Ender is being manipulated into becoming the best Commander he can be by the teachers. Ender recognizes how he is being used, but accepts that this is his fate.
The book follows 6-year old Ender Wiggin as he is molded into a Commander in the hopes that he will be able to save the world from a third invasion by an alien armada. Ender is quickly enrolled in Battle School where he is placed in a mock army with other children. Maturing with every second he spends at the Battle School, Ender learns and creates strategies as he plays the war games. At every point Ender is being manipulated into becoming the best Commander he can be by the teachers. Ender recognizes how he is being used, but accepts that this is his fate.