Enders Game

By Madi Hawkins

Enders Game

by Orson Scott Card, Starscape, Tom Dorherty Associates, NY, c.1991, 324 pp, $5.99, ISBN 0765342294

reviewed by Madigan Hawkins, Grade 7

Marshall Middle School, Olympia Washington

The Buggers are attacking the Earth, and all hope is lost. The human fleets respond too slowly, while the Buggers communicate over light-speed instantaneously. The main fleet is destroyed, and only a small fleet of new fighters are left. A single lucky shot by one human pilot and the Bugger ships are mysteriously disabled. The Earth was

saved.

This is the story that young Ender grew up learning. He is a 3rd child, so from the moment he is born he belongs to the government. The day after he gets into a fight and kills one of his classmates, he is taken from his family and sent to an orbiting battle school. While there, he excels at only one thing. Command. At six he controls a launch group, at seven the whole Dragon army. After a fight that would test his skills for the last time at the battle school, he is sent to command school with the best of his generals from the Dragon Army. The final battle of the Bugger wars is beginning.

This was a book of the ages. Its well-written pages flowed with violent, tragic, and confusing scenes. Nothing made sense until the next page, which kept me reading like no other book has. I would recommend this book to anyone who wonders what it might be like to have another race in the galaxy.