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Ender's GameEnder's Game (1985) is the best-known novel by Orson Scott Card. It originated as a science fiction short story in Analog magazine (1977) and is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known colloquially as "Buggers" but more formally as "Formics." Genius children are seen as the ultimate leaders of the protection of Earth and are recruited into training for an upcoming battle against the alien race. Card later expanded the novel into the Ender's Game series. Overview The protagonist, Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin, is one of these child soldiers. Like the other child soldiers, he is recruited at a very young age and is sent for training at Battle School, where he learns to fight and to lead armies. Due to his extremely high aptitude for tactics and leadership, he is advanced through his training much faster than the other students. Meanwhile, his psychological development is monitored by the "game of the mind", a computer game embedded in the school's computer network, and manipulated to a large extent by the cynical Colonel Hyrum Graff, who runs the school. The original short story is merely a snapshot of Ender's experiences in Battle School; the full-length novel is a deeper and more complex work dealing with Ender's life before, during, and after Battle School, and the consequences of his final battle with the alien 'Buggers', in which he destroys the aliens' homeworld using a fearsome weapon nicknamed Dr. Device. Ender's Game was the winner of the Hugo Award for best novel in 1986 and the Nebula Award for best novel in 1985, the two most prestigious awards in science fiction. It was reprinted in a slightly revised edition in 1991. Some military colleges have used Ender's Game as a textbook on leadership. Character list Wiggin Family Battle School Characters The series Card went back and expanded the short story into a novel after realizing that he wanted to use Ender as a main character in another novel, Speaker for the Dead. That novel takes place several thousand years later. Card has continued to write other sequels, so Ender's Game has spawned the Ender's Game series. Two series were spawned from the original book. - First series:
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The movie An Ender's Game movie is currently in preproduction. See Ender's Game (movie) for more information. External links
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