Ender’s Game

Ender’s Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. The novel presents an imperilled mankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien race. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel’s protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are trained from a very young age through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity, where Ender’s tactical genius is revealed.

Orson Scott Card (born March 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender’s Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to date to have won both science fiction’s highest honors in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of Ender’s Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013.

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