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The cover art of
Ender's Game depicts the
Battle School space station.
Ender'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. He is recruited at an unusually young age because of his extremely high aptitude for tactics and leadership. He is sent for training at Battle School, where he learns to fight and to lead armies. Meanwhile, his psychological development is revealed through 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'.
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.
The movie
An Ender's Game movie is currently in pre-production. It is being produced by Fresco Pictures in conjunction with Warner Brothers; the director is to be Wolfgang Petersen.
Currently there is no scheduled release date. The Fresco Pictures website estimated that the film will be released in two to four years as of November 2002, but this may be subject to change. The author-written screenplay was finished and submitted to Warner Brothers by Orson Scott Card in May 2003.
The final film's story line will be a fusion between Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, focusing on the important elements of both. There may also be new elements and/or plots added to the film.
ISBN numbers
- ISBN 0606040439 (prebound, 1985)
- ISBN 0312932081 (hardcover, 1985, revised)
- ISBN 0312854021 (hardcover, 1992, Limited Edition)
- ISBN 0312853238 (paperback, 1992)
- ISBN 0812550706 (paperback, 1994, revised)
- ISBN 081252358X (mass market paperback, 1994)
- ISBN 0765342294 (mass market paperback, 2002, reprint)
- ISBN 0765550709 (mass market paperback)
External link
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