{"id":148,"date":"2006-08-09T17:51:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/09\/enders-game\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T00:45:37","slug":"enders-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/08\/09\/enders-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Ender&#8217;s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-148\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812550706\/sr=8-1\/qid=1155170572\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-4342706-4954465?ie=UTF8\" target=\"NewWindow\">Ender&#8217;s Game<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mass Market Paperback: <\/strong>384 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Tor Science Fiction; Reprint edition (July 15, 1994)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0812550706<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This book has a great premise &#8211; Earth has fought the buggers, aliens that appear to be insect-like, twice.  Earth is now trying to find someone to lead its forces against the buggers.  &#8220;Ender&#8221; Wiggin is a small young boy, a third child in an overcrowded world where two is the normal maximum.  Ender is trained to command the Earth&#8217;s forces by playing a series of games, first against other boys and finally against a computer, controlled by the person that saved the Earth in the second invasion.  But, there&#8217;s a twist of course &#8211; the games against the computer aren&#8217;t games at all, they are real.<br \/>\nAnd, in the end, Ender kills all the buggers except one queen.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that we can make more interesting risk decisions in a game vs. reality is very interesting &#8211; I&#8217;m certain there&#8217;s research someone on that.  I&#8217;m also struck by the portrayal of children in the book; the portrayal &#8220;&#8230;challenges their assumptions about reality.&#8221; (author, forward to the book)<\/p>\n<p>I read this thanks to a reference in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=146\">Play Money<\/a> &#8211; now I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=149\">Ender&#8217;s Shadow<\/a>, the story of Bean, one of the children that commanded armies for Earth and for Ender.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-148\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 148);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-148\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-148\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Ender&#8217;s Game Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Tor Science Fiction; Reprint edition (July 15, 1994) ISBN: 0812550706 This book has a great premise &#8211; Earth has fought the buggers, aliens that appear to be insect-like, twice. 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