When Orson Scott Card wrote this novel in 1985, he was ahead of his time. At a time when PCs were brand new and outrageously expensive (I know because my dad programmed them), and having the internet in one’s home was a foreign concept, in this story the characters are always carrying around their “desks”, which seem quite a bit like laptop computers, and communicating on the “nets” using pseudonyms.Ender's Game is about an alternate future where aliens known as “buggers” have attacked Earth twice, and the unified world governments are recruiting genius children to train them to destroy the buggers. Andrew Wiggin, who is known by the nickname “Ender”, is the best of these, and this story covers his life from when he was taken to a space station at six years old to when he inadvertently destroyed the buggers when he was eleven years old, and where his life went from there.
I do not know if this book would appeal to all teenagers, but it is the perfect book for fans of Science Fiction!
Review by David Dunkerton
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