Ender's Game · Book 1
Ender's Game
- Published
- 15 January 1985
- Pages
- 330
- ISBN-13
- 9781448767915
- Type
- novel
About this book
Orson Scott Card opened Ender's Game on January 15, 1985, a 330-page debut in which six-year-old Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is recruited into Battle School, an orbiting academy built to find and train the child who can save humanity from a third alien invasion. Its final twist recontextualizes everything before it and remains one of science fiction's most famous.
Its place in Ender's Game
Ender's Game is book 1 in the Ender's Game series. It is followed by Speaker for the Dead. See the full Ender's Game reading order.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is six years old when he's recruited into Battle School, an orbiting military academy built to find and train the child who can save humanity from a third invasion by the alien "Buggers." Ender is a prodigy the adults running the program are willing to isolate, manipulate and break in order to shape into a commander — and the story is as much about what that does to a brilliant, lonely child as it is about the tactical war games he keeps winning. The final twist of Ender's Game…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780765337320
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780784839065
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9783641082505