Two wars have been fought by humans against ant-like invaders from space. Neither war finished in conclusive victory and the world anxiously awaits an inevitable third invasion. In preparation for this, an elite corps of genius children is being trained to become Earth's secret weapon in the coming struggle. Isolated in a Battle School in space, the children endlessly play war games, devising strategies and techniques that will help them in the role they have been assigned. The star of the school is a young child named Ender Wiggin. When readers first meet him, Ender is only six years old but his precocious genius has been recognized by the authorities and his rigorous training has begun. Taken from his parents and family and starved of love and affection, Ender has no option but to become the self-reliant, swift-thinking and ruthless wargamer the world requires. As he scales the rungs of the training ladder at the school, he is closely observed by the powers that be, who have a particular destiny in mind for him.

Ender's Game does have its drawbacks. Unfortunately for British readers, the ant-like aliens are known as 'buggers'. Constant references to the 'bugger wars', 'defeating all buggers' and so on sound at first very odd - indeed risible - but it is more than worth persevering with the book to the point where they cease to do so. The novel is an adventure story of a self-sufficient hero, albeit one who is only a child, surviving in circumstances where all the world seems against him, but it also works as a sophisticated moral tale in which the martial virtues so often celebrated in American culture (and, indeed, in American SF) are examined and questioned. Orson Scott Card is a Mormon who has been a prolific writer of both SF and fantasy in the twenty years since the publication of Ender's Game. The story of Ender Wiggin continued along often surprising paths in several sequels but it is the first installment in the saga which most successfully revealed Card's ability to combine exciting narrative with moral parable.

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