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Ender's Game is an American sci-fi/action film based on the like-named novel by Orson Scott Card. Directed and adapted by Gavin Hood, the film stars Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Aramis Knight, Hailee Steinfeld, Jimmy Pinchak, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.

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  • Ender's Game is an American sci-fi/action film based on the like-named novel by Orson Scott Card. Directed and adapted by Gavin Hood, the film stars Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Aramis Knight, Hailee Steinfeld, Jimmy Pinchak, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.
  • Ender's Game is a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card. It is a novelization and expansion of, "Ender's Game", a short story originally published in Analog Magazine in 1977.
  • Ender's Game is the first novel in the Ender Quintet, preceding Ender in Exile. The book originated as a short story in Analog magazine (1977) and Orson Scott Card later expanded it into a full-length novel in 1985.
  • Ender's Game is published by Marvel Comics under their Best-Selling Authors imprint. Current price per issue is $3.99.
  • The book that put Orson Scott Card on the map, and remains his most famous work ever. In the not-too-distant future, mankind has barely survived two invasions by an insectoid alien race, formally known as Formics, but called Buggers by most of the viewpoint characters. As the threat of a third invasion looms nigh, the world's most talented children are taken to an orbiting Battle School. There they study physics, mathematics, history, psychology, politics, and play a lot of games. And the biggest, best game of all is the Battle Room, where they organize into "armies" and play 41-on-41 zero-G laser tag as the adults look on, searching for future commanders against the incoming menace.
  • Set in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the Formics (an insectoid alien race also known as the "Buggers"). In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, an international fleet maintains a school to find and train future fleet commanders. The world's most talented children, including the novel's protagonist Ender Wiggin, are taken at a very young age to a training center known as the Battle School. There, teachers train them in the arts of war through increasingly difficult games including ones undertaken in zero gravity in the Battle Room where Ender's tactical genius is revealed. Reception to the book was generally positive, though some critics have denounced Card's perceived justification of his main character's vio
  • Announcer: And now it's time for "Bum Reviews" with Chester A. Bum. Tonight's review: "Ender's Game." Chester: OH MY GOD, this is the greatest movie I've ever seen in my life! Do you like Hunger Games in space? You do? Well, then SPOILERS! There's this kid called Ender. Probably named that because it sounds like a good title for a book. And he has to stop this ALIEN ATTACK! Sort of. The alien attack already happened; they have to stop it from happening again. But they're certain that they're going to try it again! Sort of. So they have all these kids man their weapons and be their military! Why? "Really?"
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  • *David Coatsworth *Deborah Del Prete *Bill Lischak *Ted Ravinett *Venkatesh Roddam *Mandy Safavi *Ivy Zhong
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  • This is not a game
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  • Steve Jablonsky
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  • *Asa Butterfield *Harrison Ford *Ben Kingsley *Abigail Breslin *Hailee Steinfeld
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  • *Orson Scott Card *Robert Chartoff *Lynn Hendee *Alex Kurtzman *Linda McDonough *Roberto Orci *Gigi Pritzker *Ed Ulbrich
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  • 1985-01-15(xsd:date)
  • 1994-07-15(xsd:date)
  • 2013-11-01(xsd:date)
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  • Zach Staenberg
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  • English
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  • Donald McAlpine
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  • 324(xsd:integer)
  • 384(xsd:integer)
Title
  • Ender's Game
First Published
  • 1985(xsd:integer)
Awards
  • Hugo Award for best novel
  • Nebula Award for best novel
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  • 1731141(xsd:integer)
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  • *Summit Entertainment *Lionsgate
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  • Ender's Shadow
  • A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
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  • *Gavin Hood *Orson Scott Card
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  • Gavin Hood
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