Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Ender’s Game was the first science fiction novel published entirely online, originally debuting on Delphi Forums. In the anniversary audiobook edition, the author stated that Ender’s Game was written to establish Ender as a character for his later novel, Speaker of the Dead, giving birth to the series, and cited works of Isaac Asimov and Bruce Catton as his inspiration. The Enders Game series (often referred to as the Ender saga and also the Enderverse) is a series of science fiction books written by American author Orson Scott Card. In the full-length novel, Orson Scott Card dived deeper into the political machinations of Ender’s world. From space to Earth, jump into each journey Ender undertakes and every danger he braves - war between alien races, threat of a deadly virus, his own banishment from Earth, and more.Įnder’s Game, book one in the series, started life as a novelette, focusing on vignettes from Ender Wiggin’s formative Battle School days. The shifting political landscape and tense emotional scenes are captured flawlessly by a cast of award-winning narrators and noted actors, including Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick, John Rubinstein, and David Birney. Packed with action, this fascinating series goes beyond planetary exploration to touch on timely issues such as cultural awareness, global and interpersonal politics, and overcoming the barriers to understanding members of different “species”. Join Ender as he attends the prestigious Battle School, advancing in leaps and bounds due to his ruthless cunning, and evolves into the general destined to save the world.

Ender might also be the only person who can save humans from extinction at the hands of an interstellar insect race. Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is a six-year-old genius and the result of decades of genetic experimentation. And while I think the absence of Peter’s storyline makes the movie less interesting than the book, it, like these other cuts, also makes it easier for the filmmakers to say that their movie has nothing do with the unfortunate politics of Orson Scott Card.Īlso read Dana Stevens’ review of Ender’s Game. And it’s quite possible the filmmakers omitted all this out of concern for the movie’s running time. Ultimately, it’s more complicated than that: While Peter succeeds, he also matures, and does not become the vicious dictator he seems destined to become. He is explicitly compared to Hitler, and bears a passing resemblance to Card’s later visions of Barack Obama the scenario in general evokes Card’s longstanding fears of a “ new world order.” There’s a major storyline about the efforts of Ender’s sadistic brother, Peter, to capitalize on those political tensions and take over the world. Much is made in the book of the uneasy, Cold War-like détente that the threat of alien invasion has created.

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