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Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card
Published by Tor Books, 1985.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is an amazing book. It is set in the future, when humans have begun leaving Earth, but in leaving, they have run into a foreign species, the formics, or buggers. They are a species who made no attempt to communicate with humans and simply killed all humans they met.
Ender, a child on earth, is recruited to battle school, an orbiting battle training school for brilliant children. There he engages in rigorous training and becomes the best, though he is one of the youngest. The training is in the form of all kinds of games, which Ender always wins. He’s smart enough to know that the formics will come again and that time is running out. But is he the one to lead the battle when they come?
The book is amazing, and anyone who likes it should also look into its sequels, Ender's Shadow, Xenocide, and Shadow of the Hegemon.
—Evan
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