Sci-Fi & Speculative

Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

by Orson Scott Card · Ender's Saga series

Brilliant child Ender Wiggin is recruited to an orbital Battle School to train for humanity's war against an alien insectoid race. Through increasingly brutal games and psychological manipulation, Ender must become the military genius Earth desperately needs while struggling to retain his humanity. Card's masterpiece examines the ethics of war, the sacrifice of childhood, and the terrible cost of victory.

Ender's Saga in reading order

• 1. Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) — Orson Scott Card
• 1. Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School (Ender's Saga) — Christopher Yost
• 2. Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card
• 3. Xenocide — Orson Scott Card
• 4. Children of the Mind — Orson Scott Card
• 5. Ender in Exile — Orson Scott Card
• First Meetings in Ender's Universe — Orson Scott Card

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