FromNewYorkTimesbestsellingauthorOrsonScottCard,Ender’sGame--adaptedtofilmin2013starringAsaButterfieldandHarrisonFord--istheclassicHugoandNebulaaward-winningsciencefictionnovelofayoungboy’srecruitmentintothemidstofaninterstellarwar.Inordertodevelopasecuredefenseagainstahostilealienrace’snextattack,governmentagenciesbreedchildgeniusesandtrainthemassoldiers.Abrilliantyoungboy,Andrew“Ender“Wigginliveswithhiskindbutdistantparents,hissadisticbrotherPeter,andthepersonhelovesmorethananyoneelse,hissisterValentine.PeterandValentinewerecandidatesforthesoldier-trainingprogrambutdidn’tmakethecut--youngEnderistheWiggindraftedtotheorbitingBattleSchoolforrigorousmilitarytraining.Ender’sskillsmakehimaleaderinschoolandrespectedintheBattleRoom,wherechildrenplayatmockbattlesinzerogravity.YetgrowingupinanartificialcommunityofyoungsoldiersEndersuffersgreatlyfromisolation,rivalryfromhispeers,pressurefromtheadultteachers,andanunsettlingfearofthealieninvaders.Hispsychologicalbattlesincludeloneliness,fearthatheisbecominglikethecruelbrotherheremembers,andfanningtheflamesofdevotiontohisbelovedsister.IsEnderthegeneralEarthneeds?ButEnderisnottheonlyresultofthegeneticexperiments.ThewarwiththeBuggershasbeenragingforahundredyears,andthequestfortheperfectgeneralhasbeenunderwayforalmostaslong.Ender’stwooldersiblingsareeverybitasunusualasheis,butinverydifferentways.Betweenthethreeofthemlietheabilitiestoremakeaworld.If,thatis,theworldsurvives.OrsonScottCard’sEnder’sGameisthewinnerofthe1985NebulaAwardforBestNovelandthe1986HugoAwardforBestNovel.THEENDERUNIVERSEEnderseriesEnder’sGame/EnderinExile/SpeakerfortheDead/Xenocide/ChildrenoftheMindEnder’sShadowseriesEnder’sShadow/ShadowoftheHegemon/ShadowPuppets/ShadowoftheGiant/ShadowsinFlightChildrenoftheFleetTheFirstFormicWar(withAaronJohnston)EarthUnaware/EarthAfire/EarthAwakensTheSecondFormicWar(withAaronJohnston)TheSwarm/TheHiveEndernovellasAWarofGifts/FirstMeetings
