from Amazon.comCard, O.S. (author), Rudnicki, S. (narrator) & Ellison, H. (narrator). (2002). Ender's game: special 20th anniversary edition. New York: Macmillan Audio.

ISBN: 9780792733607

Rating: 4Q4P

Readers' Annotation:  As a six-year-old genius, Ender must save Earth from aliens.

Summary:  Ender is a genius, his whole family is, but only he is able harness his talents for the good of the world.  Ender goes away to school to train for war games, and he ends up having to fight for real.

Evaluation:  Adults and children alike will appreciate Orson Scott Card's novel based on one of his short stories.  Adult readers will appreciate the thought provoking world in which Ender and his family live. Card raises thought provoking topics on human survival and child workers.  At times the details of the side stories stop the flow of the novel, but most readers will look beyond.  The narrators of the audiobook do a wonderful job of bringing Ender's world to life.  This audiobook edition includes an interview with Card reflecting on the twenty years since the original publication of Ender's Game.

Genre:

• Science Fiction

Series:  Ender Wiggin

1. Ender's Game (1985)
2. Speaker of the Dead (1986)
3. Xenocide (1992)
4. Children of the Mind (1996)
5. A War of Gifts (2007)
6. Ender in Exile (2008)

Related: First meetings in the Enderverse (2003) - Collection of four novellas; Ender's Game: War of Gifts (2010)