Others: Overwhelmingly positive Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers". In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, are trained from a very young age by putting them through increasingly difficult games, including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed. The book originated as a short story of the same name, published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The novel was published on January 15, 1985. Later, by elaborating on characters and plotlines depicted in the novel, Card was able to write additional books in the Ender's Game series. Card also released an updated version of Ender's Game in 1991, changing some political facts to reflect the times more accurately (e.g., to include the recent collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War). The novel has been translated into 34 languages. Reception of the book has been mostly positive. It has become suggested reading for many military organizations, including the United States Marine Corps. Ender's Game was recognized as "best novel" by the 1985 Nebula Award[3] and the 1986 Hugo Award[4] in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Its four sequels—Speaker for the Dead (1986), Xenocide (1991), Children of the Mind (1996), and Ender in Exile (2008)—follow Ender's subsequent travels to many different worlds in the galaxy. In addition, the later novella A War of Gifts (2007) and novel Ender's Shadow (1999), plus other novels in the Shadow saga, take place during the same time period as the original.
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Douglas Adams
1979 · 215 pages · 18 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "hexalogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months. The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia.
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Philip K. Dick
1965 · 233 pages · 6 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveThe Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.[1] The novel takes place in 2016. Under United Nations authority, humankind has colonized every habitable planet and moon in the Solar System. Like many of Dick's novels, it utilizes an array of science fiction concepts, features several layers of reality and unreality and philosophical ideas. It is one of Dick's first works to explore religious themes.
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Arthur C. Clarke
1968 · 228 pages · 5 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveA novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the late 1960's it begins at "the dawn of man" and then leaps to the year 2001 where a mission to Saturn (Jupiter in the film) is mounted to try and answer questions raised by the discovery of an ancient artifact dug up on the moon. Though not particularly fast paced, the science is good, and there are a few hair raising events. There are also interesting speculations about the future, such as the space shuttle, and a device eerily similar to an iPad. Leaving plenty of room for contemplation and the appreciation for the inevitable trials of space travel, this is one of the truly landmark pieces of hard science fiction.
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Larry Niven
1974 · 560 pages · 6 reviews
Others: Leaning positiveScience fiction classic about the rise, fall and subsequent rise of a civilization where the peak catastrophe is known as the "crazy eddy point". Introduces the concept of frictionless toilets that don't have any water in them but I suspect the authors didn't think it all the way through - I don't recall a negative air pressure that would keep odours in their rightfull place. Nevertheless a fascinating read. I haven't read this for donkeys years which is why I'm searching for an e-copy.
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Clifford D. Simak
1963 · 210 pages · 7 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveEnoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars. More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...
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Ray Bradbury
1950 · 222 pages · 5 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveThis is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the colonists determine to build a new Earth on Mars.
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Loved itI have like a Pantheon score where things like I think Ender's Game and Slaughterhouse Five, I said I can't give a score because they are they are different. I've read them more than once and every time I read them, they give me a different experience and they are beyond scoring.
Loved itone of the best works of Science Fiction I have read and my 21st favorite book of all time is Ender Game by Orson Scott card
Loved itI really enjoyed Ender Game but I am in the camp of I actually enjoyed Ender Shadow more
MixedI have I'm conflicted on Enders game because I've read it like seven times and as a kid I really enjoyed it and but I don't like the author's behavior or his really his opinions
Loved itEnders Game is like my second favorite sci-fi book ever
Loved itthis is a fantastic first inuction into military science fiction if you're looking for one but the rest of the series doesn't quite qualify as military science fiction is it good yes is it maybe better than the first book absolutely
Loved itI thought it was an interesting story kind of ya fun
Loved itI love this book and read it repeatedly when I was younger. I really enjoyed the war games that the kids are trained to play, the rivalry between the groups of children, and the way that Ender builds his team and his tactics to beat more experienced players.
Loved itit is the perfect Crossroads of childhood lost and conquerors Triumph young Ender Wiggins is pulled up into battle school which is a militaristic satellite school and he is shows himself that he is the best military mind of his time
Loved itI remember reading Enders Game when I was roughly the same age as the characters in the book and it really affected me. I remember being almost breathless at the end of that book and emotional about it.
Loved itI loved ender's game so much it was just so good I loved ender and just the whole story and everything should go read it i think i gave it 4.5 out of 5 or maybe even five stars
