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Ender's Game (Ender, Bk 1) (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection)
Ender's Game - Ender, Bk 1 - SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection Author:Orson Scott Card He was the third of his parents' children to be monitored. Peter, his older brother, had been too uncontrollably violent. Valentine, his sister, seemed incapable of violence altogether. So they pinned their hopes on Andrew Wiggin nicknamed Ender because of Valentine's childish mispronunciation of his name, and took him to Battle School t... more »o begin his military education. He was six years old.
Only Earth's best made it to Battle School, where student armies fought mock wars in zero gravity...games intended to develop the tactics and strategies human soldiers would need against the alien enemy. The training was tough, but for Ender they made it tougher stillchanging the rules of the game without warning, forcing him to stand alone without friends to rely on, pushing his natural abilities to the limit. For, ultimately, if Ender Wiggin proved himself less than brilliant, there was no hope for the human race.« less