A Review of the Book "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card

Title: Ender's Game

Author: Orson Scott Card

Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates LLC

Year: 1977

324 pages

Ender's Game is a science-fiction novel set on a futuristic dystopian Earth. Post-war with the "buggers", the people of Earth are gearing up for an assumed new attack from these destructive creatures.

But because of how long it will take for the "buggers" to arrive on Earth, the military has realized the soldiers they need to train are the children.

Young kids are taken from their families when they come to school age and are trained at battle school, where they are teamed up and pitted against each other in battle simulations.

Ender is coming out as an extremely smart kid who can strategize and lead as good as any adult. He is molded by military leaders in some quite unusual and, truthfully, torturous ways. But can he be the leader the Earth needs to survive the next war?

This book was quite intense in its story-telling, sometimes forgetting that these characters are as young as six years old. It was your typical dystopian-era science-fiction book, which was just fine by me because I enjoy this genre.

I especially enjoyed the surprise ending!