- Title: Ender’s Game
- Author: Orson Scott Card
- Genre/Subject: SF
- Publisher: Tor
- Number of pages: 324
- Publication Date: 1985
- Finish date: 6/1/2020
Review:
Challenging. I can see why this book is in all the top 10 lists. But… it’s got issues. The children think and act like experienced men and women. No way. Too much of a stretch for this to really work for me. The adults are also way too cut and paste, the scheming bureaucrat, the soulless army colonel.
I get a lot out of it, but I come away greatly unsatisfied.
“It was real all along, you only thought it was a game” is the obverse of “he woke up and it was all a dream.”
Overall rating: 
How I discovered or acquired this book: Top 25 SF
Noteworthy experiences while reading this book: Solved the Twin Prime conjecture. Ate pogos.
Check out author’s other books?
Recommend this book? To whom? —
Ratings (1-10, 10 being exceptional):
- Quality of writing – 8
- Pace – 8
- Plot development – 8
- Characters – 5
- Enjoyability – 7
- Insightfulness – 7
- Ease of reading – 8
- Photos/illustrations – n/a
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