Ender's Game

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card was an excellent book. It starts from Ender's point of view then shifts quickly to 3rd person. His entire reason for being born was to save the planet from the buggers, insect looking aliens. On a usual morning he is eating breakfast with his family (Mom, Dad, Peter, Valentine) when Colonel Graff shows up and tells him he has made it. At age six he is taken to battle school in outer space and trained to fight. At the age of six years and nine months he is promoted to an "army", the normal age of promotion is nine years. He proves to be the best soldier in anyone's "army" and is soon promoted to commander of a jinxed "army" at age nine. The youngest commander ever before this was eleven. His army is full of newbies and losers and he teaches them


Card is trying to tell the readers that if there is life out there that we need to be careful what we do because they might not consider us intelligent at first or even at all. Still this is no reason to go out into the universe and destroy all of them because they made a mistake. He also tries to tell us we need to be careful how far we push ourselves at one time. Ender was pushed over the edge several times and the earth could have been lost as a result. However, when stretched to our limits people show that they can perform extraordinary feats of strength and intelligence.

I think the most creative idea was how the buggers lived and worked. The queen has conscious thought and the workers are like various arms and legs of a body. If you kill the queen the workers will technically still be

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