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Ender's Game Gift Edition (Ender Quartet) | 
 enlarge | Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0765317389
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780765317384
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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Product Description
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
For the perfect holiday gift for the reader on your list, pick up this special gift edition of one of the most beloved Science Fiction novels ever written. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games at the Battle School; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. Ender is the most talented result of Earth's desperate quest to create the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. Is Ender the general Earth needs? The only way to find out is to throw the child into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Formics has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.
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Ender is a genius October 13, 2008
David Brockert (Madison, Wisconsin)
"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
Many thanks to Borders and Barnes & Noble for allowing me to read this in the store while my wife checks out books and magazines for herself.
This is quite the story.
Ender is a genius. He has been followed by some 'monitor' (inside his head or skin? Or just hovering around him?), so the government/military can make sure of his growth and development as well as his safety. He has grown up in a normal enough family: Mother, Father, brother and sister. He has just started school and is adjusting to this new life. There is a stigma associated with excess children, the world being a closed system, it can only support so many people. One or two children is all that is normally allowed; a third is taking advantage of everyone else, and is given a very bad social stigma. This is what Ender is: a third. When the 'monitor' is taken away, nobody knows it is just another test for his quality or fitness to be who he has to be. He passes and is taken away, after appropriate fussing and fuming, from his family to command school. It happens to be miraculous how prescient and adept the teacher Graff is in helping Ender become great, but it is fiction, so I guess the author can have the story do whatever he finds necessary.
It is hard for us 'normal' folks to understand all a genius thinks, so Mr. Card does not go into that, he just gives the impression of quality and intelligence exhibited in the actions and conversations of the heroes. I have read this sort of thing before (Robert Henlein). There I felt that the heroine was not shown to be such a great genius, in fact, she showed some very silly mistakes, not at all what a genius would do, as far as I am concerned.
In the edition I read, Mr. Card wrote an introduction. It was funny how different people took the notion of exceptional children. A teacher said it was all bosh. A bunch of exceptional children said he really got the problems and attitude shifts they use very correct. But some of that is odd, because he puts Ender in a school of exceptional children, so why the problems, etc.?
Mr. Card developed a full story. He gave the characters something to do and problems to work out, and in the end you felt very good about the future of the characters.
Delightful August 12, 2008
K. Gull (Anchorage, AK USA)
I was a little leery on reading this book; I finally broke down and bought it. It is a great story, and I love it. Enders Game is defiantly a book I will bring with me into a classroom setting. I am excited to use it, and hopefully others will benefit from it the way I have.
Wow. June 11, 2008
Jeffrey Shek (Waltham, MA)
This is an epic masterpiece. In short, if that was my review for this book, I would stand by it for all time.
I haven't come across a great fiction book to read in a while, and today I decided to just "try" Ender's Game for perhaps a few chapters. A few hours later, I rested the book and I was astonished.
The story is extremely captivating, and the reader can feel Ender's life through so many different moments. We sympathize with him when he's glad, we're happy for him when he succeeds. Scott has really created a book that will cling to all of us - move us, and makes us imagine, just what it would be like to be Ender.
We are involved with his love for family, but more importantly, we are involved with his way of growing up. He has no means an easy childhood, but readers can understand EVERYTHING that he's going through - Scott's delicate choice of words certainly makes this novel one of my favorite of all time. I presume that you have the basic notion of what is already happening with the story, and to that I say, even if it doesn't seem interesting from a little bit of the context of the story, buy it and read it!
You will love it!
Seminal Saga May 29, 2008
J. Gibbons (Cairnbrook Somerset Co., PA)
Once you have met "Ender" Wiggans you will never forget him or his remarkable journey. I hope that there will never come a time in human history that we would require a child like Andrew "Ender" Wiggans.
Read this story and then read about Bean, whose life and trials make Ender's life seem like a day at the park.
Guess I must be childish March 19, 2008
GreyFox (Dallas,TX)
This is touted as a book for young people. I was 50 years old when I read it. By that time I had been reading Sci-Fi for 40 years. This is one of the top sci-fi stories of all time. Even if you are too old for it.
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