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Ender's Game[安德的游戏]

英语简介:Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast. 

But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails. 

Newsday said of this novel "Card has done strong work before, but this could be the book to break him out of the pack." It was. Ender's Game took the sf world by storm, sweeping the awards. It won both the Hugo and Nebula, and rose to the top of national bestseller lists.


汉语简介:《安德的游戏》(Ender's Game)是美国著名科幻小说作家奥森·斯科特·卡德(Orson Scott Card)的作品,该作品发表于1985年,曾获得星云奖及雨果奖,其续集《死者的代言人》(Speaker for the Dead)发表于次年,也获得星云奖和雨果奖,这使卡德成为唯一一个曾连续两年获得星云奖最佳长篇的作家。故事发生在未来,当时地球已经两次遭遇过虫族的进攻,国际舰队认为必须在世界各地寻找天资聪颖的孩童,并在孩童身上装上监视器,在达到他们所认为合格的条件下将他们送往国际舰队训练儿童的空间站(“战斗学校”)进行训练,为把他们塑造成舰队指挥官,使人类在与虫族的战斗中占领先机,并得到存活的希望。

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