Ender's Game

Ender's Game (1985) is the best-known novel by Orson Scott Card and is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, the insectoid "Buggers" (more formally known as "Formics"). Faced with extreme odds, humanity prepares to gamble all by preparing a coordinated all-out assault on the alien worlds. To achieve success, they train specially bred genius children, one whom they hope will make the perfect military leader for the upcoming conflict.

The series

Card went back and expanded the short story into a novel after realizing that he wanted to use Ender as a main character in another novel, Speaker for the Dead. Card has in fact written several more sequels, spawning the Ender's Game series. The more metaphysical bent of the later books has reduced their popularity.

Related Topics:
Speaker for the Dead - Ender's Game series

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Two series were spawned from the original book:

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• First series:
• Ender's Game
• Speaker for the Dead
• Xenocide
• Children of the Mind
• Second series:
• Ender's Shadow
• Shadow of the Hegemon
• Shadow Puppets
• Shadow of the Giant
• Other
• First Meetings