Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game

author: Orson Scott Card

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.85

book published: 2013

rating: 4

read at: 2014/03/13

date added: 2014/03/13

shelves: non-fiction

review:

'Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game' is a series of essays by a variety of people who love the classic book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. But these are not just people who love the book. There are people who teach the book, people who use the book to teach military leadership and tactics, authors, television show creators, and others.



Essays range from articles about the rules of writing and how Ender's Game breaks these to a back and forth conversation between a father and daughter. There's one on how Ender's Game should have ended and another on how Ender's Game is a guide for life (or is it?). My favorite was by John F. Schmitt, who used Ender's Game as a teaching tool to reshape how the Marines fight in the late 1980s. The book is still on the recommended reading list for military leadership because of the lessons it teaches. This was pretty impressive.



There are no detracting or highly critical articles, but it's still a good book. There is an introduction by Orson Scott Card and after every article, the author or authors have a chance to ask Card the questions that have been bugging them all these years, and he answers. Ender's Game is a classic that I've read multiple times. Reading what others have to say about it was really quite enjoyable.



I was given a review copy of this book by BenBella Books, Inc and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to read this book.





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