Description

To be able to create a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. An excellent young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives together with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the individual he loves significantly more than other people, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training curriculum but did not make the cut--young Ender may be the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero-gravity. Yet growing up within an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling anxiety about the alien invaders.