I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. It has also been adapted into two comic series.“I need you to be clever, Bean. In addition, the later novella A War of Gifts and novel Ender's Shadow take place during the same time period as the original.Ī film adaptation of the same name written for the screen and directed by Gavin Hood and starring Asa Butterfield as Ender was released in October 2013. Its sequels, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind and Ender in Exile, follow Ender's subsequent travels to many different worlds in the galaxy. Ender's Game won the 1985 Nebula Award for best novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for best novel. It has also become suggested reading for many military organizations, including the United States Marine Corps. Reception of the book has generally been positive. Card released an updated version of Ender's Game in 1991, changing some political facts to reflect the times more accurately e.g., to include the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional books to form the Ender's Game series. The book originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, are trained from a very young age through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled mankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species which they dub the "buggers". Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card.
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