Ender's Game?

[Sultan Bhargash]

Any fans of the Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game? I can't believe it took me so long to get around to reading it, but I really loved it. I was especially intrigued by the idea of Demosthenes and Locke, two kids who use the internet to bring about world peace...

 

[Greadius]

Kids bringing about world peace? This type of anti-war literature should be burned, lest it conflict with administration policies

 

[cgannon64]

You're on a patriotic posting spree, aren't ya Greadius?

 

[thestonesfan]

That's wierd, Sultan...I was just looking at that on amazon the other day. I was planning on getting it. Glad to see it has a weighty endorsement!

 

[anonymous4401]

Are spoilers allowed? I read the Ender's Game series up to Xenocide, and Ender's Shadow to Shadow Puppets.

 

[Turner]

I've read up to Children of the Mind, or whatever the sequal to Xenocide is. Love the books. . . OSC has written some great stories. Not one of my favorite authors, but one I don't ignore, either.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Great story, when I read it years ago. Esp love the way Ender kept winning in the 'games' in Battle School, despite the odds. Esp the last game.

Also read a few others continuing fr there. Like Xenocide.

 

[Eli]

I read them all, great books. A bit unrealistic, but still a good reading.

 

[col]

Yeah - read the short story many years ago - and the subsequent novelisation. OSC is one of my favourite authors. There have been many reports about Ender's Game being filmed but they never seem to come to anything. The technology to do it justice should be available now.

 

[Turner]

A movie would be cool. . . Get james Cameron to direct it. It would be appropriately dark then. Who would play Ender? Please don't say Haley Joel Osmet. . . Get Laurence Fishburne to play Col. Gaff. Now that would be twisted. . .

 

[CivCube]

I love Ender's Game, and have read all the books. There's just something biting about them.

In fact, a movie has been confirmed. Wolfgang Petersen, who has done Das Boot and The Perfect Storm, has been hired to direct it.

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/360/360293p1.html

 

[Turner]

I didn't know that Petersen was the one who did Outbreak and Enemy Mine. Two movies I really enjoy. I'd take him as director!

Can't wait to see it! Hope he stays true to the book.

 

[WildFire]

I love the series

Enders Game
Enders Shadow
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Shadow Puppets
Children of the Mind
Shadow of the Hegemon

All on my top 10 book list. Plus the last one that I cant remember the name of.

 

[Thadlerian]

I've read all of them, except Shadow Puppets (haven't even heard about it... is it a successor to Shadow of the Hegemon?) and Children of the Mind.

All of them were great, but most of them all I loved Speaker for the Dead.

 

[WildFire]

Children of the Mind is the last book, takes off where Xenocide left off.

Shadow of the Hegemon (IIRC) follows Peter Wiggin and Bean's point of views and the days when the Bugger war was won and what happens after Ender 'kills all of the buggers'.

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

The strategy parts in the battle room was fascinating and very easy to visualize. The twist near the end of the novel was a very smart surprise.
I was also impressed by Card's ability to project certain things in the future (which when he wrote the book in the early 80s were only a decade or so away) like the internet, the level of gaming systems, etc. and leave so much to our imagination that there are very few anachronisms...


I've moved on to Speaker for the Dead but I'm not as keen on it yet as I was when I turned page after page of the first book.

I imagine the movies would age the characters a bit beyond their ages in the book... maybe Justin Timberlake as Ender???

 

[Unregister]

i like the first one and enders shadow, but the others are way to sci-fi for me.

 

[Mojotronica]

EG is pretty good -- it predicted several near-future (current) technological advances and had a nifty twist ending... I like that it was self-contained, even though it has sequels.

 

[Speaker]

Ender's Game? Nah, never heard of it.

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

Ha! I never knew what Speaker for the Dead meant till lately. Nice one.