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Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card

A gifted child is taken to a space battle school where games, pressure, and war become dangerously real.

First published 2004 · Ender's Saga

Science FictionYoung Adult

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In a future shaped by past alien attacks and strict population control, Ender Wiggin is selected as a very young child for elite military training. Sent away from his family to a space-based Battle School, he is pushed into increasingly difficult games and simulations designed to reveal whether he can become humanity’s next great commander.

As Ender rises through the ranks, he must navigate bullying, isolation, and relentless pressure from adults who keep shaping the conditions around him. Meanwhile, his siblings remain on Earth, where their intelligence and ambitions pull them into a different kind of struggle involving politics, public opinion, and influence.

The story gradually turns on the question of what is real, what is training, and how far adults will go in the name of survival. Ender’s successes bring him closer to victory, but also closer to the cost of what he has been made to do and to understand.

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Authors
Orson Scott Card
First published
2004
Genres
Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Classics, Dystopia, War
Subjects
New York Times bestseller · nyt:mass_market_paperback=2011-07-30 · military education · end of the world · prize:nebula · hegemony · space warfare · child soldiers · The Ender Quintet · science fiction · automation · data processing · aliens · Military art and science · Hermanos · Maniobras de guerra · Brothers and sisters · Open Library Staff Picks · Genetic engineering · Fiction · Hugo Award Winner · award:hugo_award=novel · Ficción · Ciencia-ficción · award:hugo_award=1986 · War games · Long Now Manual for Civilization · American Science fiction · Children's stories, American · Artificial intelligence · Ender Wiggin (Fictitious character) · Reading Level-Grade 7 · Reading Level-Grade 9 · Reading Level-Grade 8 · Reading Level-Grade 11 · Reading Level-Grade 10 · Reading Level-Grade 12 · Wiggin, ender (fictitious character), fiction · Battle school (imaginary place), fiction · Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction · Brothers and sisters, fiction · Science-Fiction-Literatur · Krieg · Amerikanisches Englisch · Außerirdische Intelligenz · award:nebula_award=novel · Peter Wiggin (Fictitious character) · Siblings, fiction · Bean (Fictitious character : Card)
ISBN-13
9780812550702

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