Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, 1985
A gifted child is recruited to a space battle school where the games are real and the adults never explain the rules.
Orson Scott Card
Card first published Ender's Game as a 1977 novella, then expanded it into the 1985 novel to set up its sequel, Speaker for the Dead.
Feels like power, war and morality.
What if understanding someone is the first step toward destroying them?
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them... I destroy them. -”“You beat them.” For a moment she was not afraid of his understanding.“No, you don’t understand. I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don’t exist.” Books by Orson Scott Card
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