

“If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. Can he find a way to win against all odds, or will he lose and fail after coming so far?

Worn down from the grueling training schedule, Ender reaches his final test: a simulation against an overwhelming bugger force. There, he faces a series of ever more challenging battle simulations at first alone, and later with some of his friends from Battle School as his lieutenants.

If anybody’s going to be scared, let it be the buggers.” – Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game Command SchoolĮnder is then given a brief leave on Earth before continuing his training at Command School. Despite Ender’s attempts to reason with Bonzo, he isįorced to defend himself and, although Bonzo is bigger and several years older, Bonzo feels humiliated by a recent loss to EnderĪnd wants to kill him. Grows among some of the other students and commanders.Įventually, Ender’s old commander, Bonzo Madrid, catchesĮnder alone and corners him. Ender is soon promoted to commander of a new army and as heĬontinues to win in the battleroom, even with the odds stacked against him, resentment Laser tag, where students are organized into armies and compete against each Theīattle School is built around a game in the battleroom, a form of zero gravity Orbit, Ender is isolated from the other recruits as the star student. Upon leaving his family to attend Battle School in Earth So they’d leave me alone.” And is accepted into Battle School. Ender replies, “Knocking him down won the first fight. Colonel Hyrum Graff visits to ask him about the fight. After Ender, at the age of 6, wins a fight with the school bully and beats him mercilessly, I.F. has been monitoring Ender all his life for selection into Battle School, due to the promise shown by his two older siblings. To train gifted children in military strategy to defend against a third Having barely survived the buggers’ first two invasions, a world military isįormed, known as the International Fleet (I.F.), and a Battle School is created Invasions by the Formics, an insect-like alien race often called the “buggers”. When the story begins, Earth has previously faced two EnderverseĮnder’s Game is the story of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, a geniusĬhild born to learn military strategy and command humanity’s starship fleetĪgainst an alien enemy.
