Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow. The book series itself is an expansion of Card's earlier short story "Ender's Game."
It offers a set of allegorical insights into matters such as human tolerance for violence towards race...
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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow. The book series itself is an expansion of Card's earlier short story "Ender's Game."
It offers a set of allegorical insights into matters such as human tolerance for violence towards races considered as 'alien', the effects of military indoctrination, and the depersonalization of warfare in a simulated 'computer-game battlefield'.
Ender's Game is the first book in the series. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was the youngest of three genius children in spite of a strict two-child policy. His existence was called for by a program aiming at producing commanders for humanity's war against the Formics, or Buggers. The generals had noted the exceptional but unusable abilities of his older siblings, Peter (who was said to be too aggressive,...
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