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Ender's Game is, quite simply, a masterpiece of science fiction writing. Set
in the not-too-distant future, the story centres on a young boy. Andrew
Wiggin (Ender) is one of an elite group of children selected for training as
tacticians to coordinate the counter-attack to an imminent alien invasion.
This tiny, brilliant minority are taken at the age of five or six and sent
to Battle School (a space station in orbit around Earth) while they are
still young enough to be truly open-minded and their full potential can be
harnessed. The training is rigorous and extensive, and none more so than
Ender's: as the smartest of the group, he is the best hope of success. Ender
experiences pressure from both sides, as his competitors try to get the
better of him and his teachers push him to breaking point.