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The international military is training mankind's best and brightest children to mold them into the finest military minds ever, training them at a Battle School in space. 6-year-old Ender Wiggin, the main protagonist, is groomed for command as part of the elite program and must face daunting battle trials and simulations in order to save the planet.
This story begins as Ender is made the commander of Dragon Army at Battle School, an institution designed to make young children into military commanders against an unspecified enemy. Armies are groups of students that fight mock battles in the Battle Room, a null gravity environment, and are subdivided into "toons" .
Major Anderson was Graff's second-in-command at Battle School, generally seen in the epistolary conversations from Ender's Game attempting to moderate his superior's unorthodox training of Ender. His passion is the Battle Room; after the war's end, he accepts the post of commissioner for an American football league, and does not appear in the ...
Ender's Shadow is a parallel novel to Ender's Game, telling many of the same events from the perspective of Bean, Ender's second-in-command and a mostly peripheral character in Ender's Game, while the first three sequels, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant tell the story of the struggle for world dominance after the ...
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The original "Ender's Game" is a short story that provides a small snapshot of Ender's experiences in Battle School and Command School; the full-length novel encompasses more of Ender's life before, during, and after the war, and also contains some chapters describing the political exploits of his older siblings back on Earth.
By Emma Farge. GENEVA (Reuters) -A U.S. envoy told Reuters that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's team should stay active at the United Nations Human Rights Council, partly to counter what she ...
(The Center Square) – After millions of illegal foreign nationals were released into the country through new parole programs created by the Biden administration, at least one million were ...