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        Ender's Game

        Orson Scott Card

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        Ender's Game

        By: Orson Scott Card

        Narrarated by: Harlan Ellison, Stefan Rudnicki

        Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards

        In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

        Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

        Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

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        New York Times Best Seller

        Total File Size: 307 MB (9 files) Total Length: 11 Hours, 11 Minutes

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        12.08.08
        Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
        2008 | Label: Macmillan Audio

        “Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.” —Valerie Wiggin

        Even in a society overrun by precociousness — where seemingly normal children study military strategy and argue political theory with top scholars — Ender Wiggin is special. He’s a six-year-old genius, a born leader, an excellent fighter, a natural at combat simulation video games, a whiz at zero-gravity shootouts. No wonder the Earth’s loosely unified spacefleets are heaping their hopes on his tiny shoulders when it comes to winning the war against the horrible Bugger race. Of course, brilliant, conflicted little scamp that he is, Ender soon becomes conscious of the gravity of his mission and the extent to which he’s being used and manipulated. Or so he thinks; his training is full of surprises, and the biggest shock comes last. It’s a doozy. Ender’s Game — divvied up among several distinct narrators for the audiobook — is Orson Scott Card’s masterwork and a spectacular example of literary sci-fi pushing its limits.

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        One of the Best

        PaulMorel

        A truly great science fiction novel ... you can tell because so many of the ideas in this book have filtered into other works in the genre. That's irrelevant though, because it's the characters that make this book great. The novel's main characters are at once so far removed from our own reality, and yet so defined by their humanity. This is the book that made Orson Scott Card a household name; after you finish it you should check out Pastwatch and nearly any other Card book.

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        Amazing!

        Insomaniacmaniac

        At first, I hated Science Fiction. When a friend suggested Ender's game to me, at first I hated the idea. When i finally got the audiobook I started "listening" and stopped altogether about two hours later. Now, two months later, I read it through just to see whetheror not to delete it. All I can say is that It took my breath away. It has an amazing plot with LOADS of twists and an ending that takes your breath away at both the climax and the literal end of the book. Five Stars! I love It!

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        Simply Great

        dudedarkness

        When I think of the greatest science fiction stories ever written, this is the first that comes to my mind. I have read this book again & again, and every time I do, I find myself relating or understanding Ender. There are not very many books, (that I have read anyway) that allow me to take something so significantly different each time I read it. This Book is simply amazing, give it a listen.

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