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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Review by Dionne Lister

08 Monday Apr 2013

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Ender'sGame

I enjoyed reading this book. It follows the life of Ender, a child who lives in a human society that has population controls. Even though having three children is an embarrassment, his parents were asked to conceive him because the government thought he might have the potential to benefit humanity. The world is under threat from an alien race: the buggers.  The people around him use Ender, but he is aware of this, at least. I won’t go into details about the plot, as I don’t want to spoil it, so I’ll move on to what I liked about the book.

Ender’s character was likeable and you wanted him to succeed. Some of the things he experienced were made more intense because of his age, and the author does a good job of reminding you at important times—he makes the reader vulnerable by showing us Ender’s vulnerability. The enclosed living arrangements throughout most of the story focus and magnify the intensity of many situations—Ender is working towards physical freedom as well as mental; the confines of his living arrangements work to parallel those other restraints.

The scenes didn’t transition smoothly for me but I wonder if the fragmented style is supposed to enhance the feeling of uncertainty and the feeling of disharmony between countries and people on Earth. The pace was generally fast, although there were a couple of spots I felt slowed unnecessarily. I liked the overall statement made about empathy and trying to create a world where people live in harmony, to the best of their capability, with others and nature. I liked how the author looked at the conflict from both the human and bugger (alien) point of view. This is a book that I highly recommend.

Dionne Lister

Dionne Lister

Dionne is an author and editor from Sydney who      loves reading (obviously) and playing sport. She co-hosts a humorous podcast called Tweep Nation where she interviews authors and discusses all things Twitter. She loves writing and sharing her stories, but she wishes they wouldn’t keep her awake at night.

More information about Dionne Lister can be found here: www.dionnelisterwriter.wordpress.com

 

 

March’s Book of the Month “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card

23 Saturday Feb 2013

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Ender'sGame“Ender’s Game is an affecting novel full of surprises that seem inevitable once they are explained.”

— New York Times Book Review

Andrew “Ender” Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.

But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military’s purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine’s abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.

Newsday said of this novel “Card has done strong work before, but this could be the book to break him out of the pack.” It was. Ender’s Game took the sf world by storm, sweeping the awards. It won both the Hugo and Nebula, and rose to the top of national bestseller lists.

Copyright © 1985 Orson Scott Card

A Tor Book – Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.

Jacket art by John Harris – Jacket design by Carol Russo

http://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/endersgame/endersgame.shtml

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