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Great book that, apparently they're making it into a movie...

Heres a summy-up thingy

Ender's Game (1985) is the best-known novel by Orson Scott Card, set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an alien society, the insectoid "Buggers" (more formally known as "Formics"). Having barely survived two separate Bugger invasions, humanity institutes a program for the breeding and training of military geniuses from a very young age to supply commanders for their fleets in hopes of surviving a projected third invasion.

Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enders_Game)

Please tell me that the forum isn't about to be swamped with pages of threads on "have you read [insert book name here]. Please.

Great book that, apparently they're making it into a movie...

Heres a summy-up thingy



Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enders_Game)

I've read it, and liked it. I also read and liked Ender's Shadow.

Please tell me that the forum isn't about to be swamped with pages of threads on "have you read [insert book name here]. Please.
I should make a thread about that jsut to irk you.

Brilliant series, all eight of them (plus bonus material)... However, most big fans already knew about the attempt to turn it into a movie a long time ago (they've been in the scriptwriting stage for at least two years now :P)

Now, whenever I hear that a book as great as this one will be adapted for screenplay, I usually flinch.

Just look at how Hitchhiker's Guide turned out! [and I have to admit that I didn't even read the book :eek: Yes... I know...]

Anyway, the way that first book was written had a very certain style to it, somehow enthralling - couldn't put it down in a long time.

[Without wanting to thread-jack: Have you read "Armor" by Steakly, who has also written "Vampire$". Great stuff as well!]

I loved "Ender's Game", though I have to admit, I think the original Novella version is superior to the expanded form of the final novel.

I'm in the process of reading Armor. Steakley seems to be replying to Heinlein's Starship Troopers, but I'm not certain just where he's going with it.

I loved "Ender's Game", though I have to admit, I think the original Novella version is superior to the expanded form of the final novel.

I'm in the process of reading Armor. Steakley seems to be replying to Heinlein's Starship Troopers, but I'm not certain just where he's going with it.
Hah! What a coincidence! Enjoy :p

[It does have a certain "same" flair to it - but it's different!]

I read it. Essentially all of the books except Shadow Puppets. (I think that's where I stopped.) I lost interest when Card got all preachy about his whole "reproduction is the meaning of life" philosophy. Anton was definately the last nail in the coufin for me.

Ender's Game was most certainly a masterpiece. The buggers were the ideal form of a truly alien race, which you so often fail to see in sci-fi. The piggies from the Speaker for the Dead arc were basicly humans in costumes (in other words, psychologically very understandable just with wieird physiologies).

Ender's Shadow was pretty good too, though I was disapointed by how Card toned down the harshness of the descriptions of Bean's childhood experiences before the battle school when Bean looks back on them in later books.