Ender's Game Gift Edition

Orson Scott Card

Tom Doherty Associates, Oct 31, 2006 - Fiction - 256 pages

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.

What people are saying

Review: Ender's Game (Ender's Saga #1)

User Review  - Nate - Goodreads

Everytime I read this book I love it even more. What makes it great is how clearly Ender represents how I feel, the isolation, the pressure, the expectations to succeed and sucumb to people's hopes ...

Review: Ender's Game (Ender's Saga #1)

User Review  - rameau - Goodreads

I am disgusted. I am so thoroughly disgusted with this book that I can't even logically explain my utter revulsion. Ender's Game reads like propaganda, and the characters in it are living it. It wasn ...

About the author

Orson Scott Card is a bestselling science fiction and fantasy author. His novels Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; his most recent novel, The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.  Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ender's Game Gift Edition; Ender Wiggin Saga; Volume 1 of Ender series; Volume 1 of The Ender Quintet
• Author: Orson Scott Card
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 2006
• ISBN: 0765317389, 9780765317384
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Sagas; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera