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[[Card, Orson Scott]]. ''Ender's Game''. New York: Tor, 1985. | [[Card, Orson Scott]]. ''Ender's Game''. New York: Tor, 1985. | ||
− | According to ''[[Anatomy of Wonder 4]]'', ENTRY 4-92, EG is an expansion of 1978 novelette; it is also the first of the Ender's series, followed by ''Speaker for the Dead'' (1986) and ''Xenocide'' (1991). See for training of a boy to become the perfect commander against the "Bugger" enemy, insectoid enemies attacking our the solar system (cf. [[Heinlein, Robert A.|R. A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Starship Troopers]]''). The training involves VR, in a simulation that proves only too real, and | + | According to ''[[Anatomy of Wonder 4]]'', ENTRY 4-92, EG is an expansion of 1978 novelette; it is also the first of the Ender's series, followed by ''Speaker for the Dead'' (1986) and ''Xenocide'' (1991). See for training of a boy to become the perfect commander against the "Bugger" enemy, insectoid enemies attacking our the solar system (cf. [[Heinlein, Robert A.|R. A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Starship Troopers]]''). The training involves VR, in a simulation that proves only too real, and deadly — apparently (if — spoiler for later books — not quite) a total xenocide: the extermination of an alien species. |
+ | See also, ''[[The Quiet Game]]''. | ||
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+ | See Wikipedia discussion and list of ''Ender's Game'''s, so to speak, progeny, with detailed notes and scholarly references.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game] | ||
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Revision as of 01:41, 26 February 2021
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. New York: Tor, 1985.
According to Anatomy of Wonder 4, ENTRY 4-92, EG is an expansion of 1978 novelette; it is also the first of the Ender's series, followed by Speaker for the Dead (1986) and Xenocide (1991). See for training of a boy to become the perfect commander against the "Bugger" enemy, insectoid enemies attacking our the solar system (cf. R. A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers). The training involves VR, in a simulation that proves only too real, and deadly — apparently (if — spoiler for later books — not quite) a total xenocide: the extermination of an alien species.
See also, The Quiet Game.
See Wikipedia discussion and list of Ender's Game's, so to speak, progeny, with detailed notes and scholarly references.[1]
RDE, early, 18/04/00; rev. 25Feb21