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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

Orson Scott Card

Start date: June 1, 2016

Finish date: June 30, 2016

Discussion: Group Reads

Why we're reading this: Winner - June 2016 - NPR Sci-Fi Fantasy Poll
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Jan 03, 2020 Michael Finocchiaro rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: series, sci-fi, american-20th-c, fiction, nebula-award-winner, classics, made-into-movie, novels, hugo-awards-winner

Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic Ender's Game is about the fate of Ender Wiggins, brother of the psychotic but brilliant Peter and the his beloved sister. It is a dystopia in which a child army is raised against the invasion of the "buggers" which are barely described in the book. There are some conventional Mormon views expressed (thinly veiled anti-Semitism, racism, and a bit of sexism) throughout that makes me want to take the review down to a "2" or "3". However, the plot advances ...more

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May 25, 2020 Tara rated it liked it

Shelves: mythgard-academy, science-fiction, easton-press-masterpieces-of-scifi

Certainly an entertaining book, and one that raises larger questions about war and humanity that you ponder over even after you have finished reading the book. But I don't particularly see myself reading this book again, nor reading more books in this series. ...more

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