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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. What a fine sci-fi! A true classic: living characters, interesting visions (global computer networks - compare it with the present and astonish!) and a fine bit of alien invasion. ( )A very good book with an interesting premise. "Realizstic characters, superb writing." This is a favorite book of mine, and one that I like to reread every few years. It hasn't held up quite as well as the later novels in the series (or its parallel, Ender's Shadow), mainly because it is definitely a children's novel, and the prose and narration becomes simplistic at times. Still, the themes are powerful, the characters strong and relatable, and the story thrilling. This is definitely one I'll hold on to and pass on to my own children one day. One of the best science fiction books ever written.
I am aware that this sounds like the synopsis of a grade Z, made-for-television, science-fiction-rip-off movie. But Mr. Card has shaped this unpromising material into an affecting novel full of surprises that seem inevitable once they are explained. The key, of course, is Ender Wiggin himself. Mr. Card never makes the mistake of patronizing or sentimentalizing his hero.
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