Enders Game by Orson Scott Card.

"Enders game" is a great fiction novel about a boy named Andrew Ender Wiggin (Ender) who is the third child in a family which was uncommon in his world (which is earth in the future). The only reason Ender was born was because neither his sister nor his brother were selected to go to the battle school so his parents were allowed to have a third child. Battle school was a place where kids would go to become a soldier. Earth was in great need of soldiers because of the buggers, an alien force that they thought was coming to attack like they did before. Of course Ender was selected for the school. There he and some others that were selected were each put into groups. Over time he was recognized for his unique intelligence and promoted to commander of a group where he lead his team to victory in the battle room (a zero gravity room where groups would fight and prepare for the buggers).

After a few years Ender is sent to commander school way ahead of schedule. After being worn down due to exhaustion in the school Ender wants to go home. During a simulation of a battle where the bugger space ships outnumber the human ships 1000 to 1, Ender decides to take a Molecular Disruption Device and use it on the planet earth which destroys a lot of the earth and the entire bugger fleet. He does this hoping that it will get him thrown out of military school. After the simulation ends Ender is told that it was not really a simulation but he was really leading the war and was now responsible for the destruction of some earth and of the entire bugger civilization. Then Ender goes into a comma. What happens next? You’ll have to read it to find out.

Question 1) I would recommend the book for two reasons.

A) It has a great story with lots of excitement. So if you do want to find out what happens after Ender comes out of the comma don’t just read the last few chapters, read the whole thing because it really is a good book.

B) I would also recommend it to people who aren’t very good readers like myself because it was easy to understand and follow the story and what happens. Also it is not a very long book.

Question 11) I would like to meet the author because I would like to ask him where he got his ideas for the novel, for example the buggers and the zero gravity room. I also wonder if he got any of the ideas from his life, for example did he go to military school and use some of that knowledge to write this novel.

By Nathan