"What is the title and/or author of this science fiction book?"

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I read this book in my sci-fi eng class in hs. A boy gets recruited and leaves his family and goes to some space training place. The boy has to pass certain levels at this place and he ends up being a leader. It is all kids and they start to fight against each other and then end up destroying it. I cannot remember exactly but i remember it being very good and descriptive, I could see everything happening as i read it.

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"Sounds like "Ender's Game"."

by marqcogan on Jan 22 2008 (24 months ago)

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That sounds like Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. It's well-known enough that I recognize it even though I've never read it. I personally find Card very hit-or-miss: when he's good, he's great, and I loved the first several Alvin Maker books (which are fantasy, not SF); he's also a technically very adept writer, and has written a lot about the craft of writing. But when he starts to let his religion and social beliefs infect his writing, he starts to lose me big-time.

If you liked Ender's Game it, I recommend two parallel classics of military SF: Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, and The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Ultimately I think that both of these authors -- while very different from each other -- are far superior to Card.

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"Ender's Game"

by PamPerdue on Jan 22 2008 (24 months ago)

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It's one of the great classics of modern sci-fi. Orson Scott Card won both a Hugo and a Nebula for it. It's so great that they awarded him another Hugo and Nebula for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead, despite being a far inferior book. (In fact, Card, a great writer, has never managed to equal the genius of that particular book.)

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"Ender's Game"

by Aurael on Jan 22 2008 (24 months ago)

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Absolutely wonderful book and series. I suggest you read the rest of the series as well.

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"Sounds like Ender's Game"

by Eloquinn on Jan 22 2008 (24 months ago)

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I'm pretty sure you're describing Ender's Game. If you're not describing Ender's Game you should still read it since it's probably up there in the top 5 science fiction stories ever written. There's a whole series based on this book now but so far I haven't been able to convince myself to sully my memory of the first book by reading the sequels.

Soon, perhaps.

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"It sounds like Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card"

by blunk on Jan 22 2008 (24 months ago)

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There are several sequels, too. It is a very popular story, and made Card's reputation.

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And if you're reading Forever War, you might as well go back to Starship Troopers. (The book, not the idiotic movie). Starship Troopers is the great-grandaddy of the genre, and Forever War is sometimes considered Haldeman's response to Troopers.

All three are meditations on war, as well as being exciting and fun war books.

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