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.

Trivia

• In Turkey, Ender is a real name and actually means rare, as in "one in a million".
• None of the original four book covers in the Ender saga have anything to do with the content of the respective book.
• Orson Scott Card published Ender's Game in 1985 and Speaker for the Dead in 1986. Both books received both the Hugo and Nebula awards. He is the only author ever to receive both awards for each book released in two consecutive years.
• The character Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin is based off of Orson Scott Card's son Geoff.
• The telecommunication nets described in the book are remarkably silimar to later real-world newsgroups, though less decentralized and better controlled
• The 'desks' described in the book foreshadow real-world laptops