The Ender's Game Saga

Ender's Game is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, that tells the story of Ender. Ender is just a nickname for Andew Wiggin, a prodigy boy that goes to a military academy. There is a war with the Buggers aliens, and so young children are sent to military instruction as soon as possible.

Young geniuses are selected to command Earth's armies and are taken to the Battle School to be trained. The first novel about Ender,describes his military instruction and the rise to be the supreme Earth commander!

Ender's Game won the Nebula and Hugo awards.

After the rise of Ender on the first book, we have other novels that continue Ender's story. These following stories are a bit diferent of Ender's Game, but still possess it's quite unique charm. We have:

• Speaker for the Dead
• Xenocide
• Children of the Mind
• A War of Gifts
• Ender in Exile: Ganges

They are all very good books, although more phylosofical than the first one, that focuses on military tactics and politics.

One of the main characters of Ender's Game was Bean, an also genius boy that became a friend and an ally of Ender. Bean's quite a charismatic character, and also won the privilege to see his side of the story told in four novels: the Shadow Saga:

• Ender's Shadow
• Shadow of the Hegemon
• Shadow Puppets
• Shadow of the Giant