Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
New York Times bestseller, Military education, End of the world, Prize:nebula
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers".
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Epic, plot-driven, richly built and classical in form.
1 profiled raters. Loved most by The Ironists.
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On Open Library, 604 have read it and 1,125 want to.
“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”
Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is Ender's Game a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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“Is this Orson Scott Card's best work?”
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“Has Ender's Game aged badly?”
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If you loved this book, the film, the television, the music, the game.
