Review of Ender's Game

Ender's Game" is the classic book that I've spent years recommending to anyone who had wanted to hear.

And it is one of the books I liked, first as a teenager and later as an adult, in a second reading just as fascinating as the first.

The novel by Orson Scott Card, is a classic of science fiction Hugo Award and won the Nebula in 1986 and in 1985 (the most important of its kind). "Ender's Game" tells the story of Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the third son of a family (in a future society where the number of children per couple is limited to two) who is recruited by the army to save the earth mankind from the threat of an alien attack. The novel explains the whole process of training Ender in "Battle School" where gifted children is prepared to lead the war, while showing its relationship with Valentine and Peter, his older brothers.

Orson Scott Card delves into the mind of Ender through his training and manages to convey the thoughts and feelings of it with each new challenge posed by their teachers and peers. The personality development of Ender in the "Battle School" is full of brilliant moments and is clearly one of the most interesting parts of the book.

The other is Ender's relationship with his brothers, Valentine and Peter. Valentine, the sister who loves him, understand him and treats him like a child and Peter's older brother since childhood cruel and forces Ender to respond to all kinds of attacks. The characters of Peter Valentine and we also offer one of the things that surprised me (and continues to surprise me) of "Ender's Game". They are dedicated to send "letters" that reach the public through a "terminal". This want to influence government decisions on land and the general mood of society. Something similar to what today would be blogging and something that makes a visionary Scott Card, when you consider that the novel was written in 1985! when Internet was just an embryo than it is today.

What "Ender's Game" is a bit hawkish and not just an apology for the love between the races? I will not deny, but I doubt it was intended to focus on that Scott Card or make any apology (we can not say the same for Robert A. Henlein and his "Starship Troopers", for example). I think Scott Card was much more interested in training as a person and leader Ender that show the buggers (the aliens in the novel) as an inferior race.

I also think a strong point (although some consider it rather obvious) end. Surprising, unexpected and well resolved, I thought it was the perfect ending to the story of Ender.

Obviously a classic must for any lover of science fiction by mysterious accident has not yet met him. Also essential for anyone who wants to read a good book.