Cover of Ender's Game
rich’s reco

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card
five stars
genreSci-Fi
seriesEnder's Game, Enderverse
reviewedjul 01 2008

Endger's Game is a sci-fi classic and a cultural touchstone. I highly recommend everyone reads it.

Once upon a time I aspired to be a leader like Ender. After experimenting with different leadership styles, I realized that style works best in a hierarchical structure and even then is a bit dated as far as management theory goes. Regardless, I love the book and still think the both the character of Ender and the whole novel are top-notch. It's on my must-read list.

The enemy gate is down.

publisher’s summary
The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation.

Is Ender the general Earth so desperately needs? The only way to find out is to throw him into ever-harsher training at Battle School, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when his training begins. He will grow up fast.

But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. His two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Among the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

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more in the series

ender's game Speaker for the Dead I kept hoping this book would get better. It never did. ender's game Xenocide I vaguely recall this being only slightly better than Speaker for the Dead. That I haven't re-read it in over a decade should say enough.