作者：OrsonScottCard
出版社：TorBooks
副标题：(Ender’sSaga#1)
出版年：1994-7-15
页数：352
定价：GBP4.75
装帧：MassMarketPaperback
ISBN：9780812550702
内容简介
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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. “Ender’s Game” is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
作者简介
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Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.
Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts.
Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.
Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.
For further details, see the author’s Wikipedia page.
For an ordered list of the author’s works, see Wikipedia’s List of works by Orson Scott Card.
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听的第一本英文有声书，赶在电影上映前听完了，Orson Scott Card的写作风格很有Asimov的风范。话说Wiggin家是什么基因啊？怎么能生出三个这么生猛的小孩？这是一个大坑，已经掉进去了。
很少看科幻小说，很抓人，作者用词都好简单，从天才的视角来看这个世界。但又不会觉得很遥远，因为天才也是人啊，也会对亲人有依赖也会害怕被孤立也会对邪恶有憎恨。非常典型的天将降大任于斯的类型。
不敢相信这是1985年的小说，两天一口气读完。结尾处Ender发现Hive queen为他建造的巨人遗迹和end of the world那段，真是让人无法不为之动容。心理游戏的设定很赞，超鸡爱wolf children的那段。很奇怪居然木有人给我推荐过！！
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