"Ender's Game" is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.


他，是拯救世界的最後希望，但在這之前，他得先活著走出戰鬥學校…… 地球再度遭到攻擊。外星「蟲族」準備好要展開最後的襲擊。人類能否存活，就得仰賴一個可以擊敗蟲族的軍事天才。但這個人是誰？安德．威金，頭腦絕頂聰明、心靈純真善良。他是天生的軍事戰略家，但同時也是個未成年的小孩，被國際艦隊徵召進入軍事學校時年僅六歲。從安德踏入新家「戰鬥學校」的那一刻起，他的童年就此告終。安德的天賦，使他從所有菁英學生中脫穎而出，在短時間內從菜鳥新兵，躍升為全校最受矚目的指揮官，卻也同時犧牲了親情、友誼，以及一個男孩在童年時期的種種歡樂。

激烈高壓的競爭環境，更引發其他男孩的嫉妒和恨意；刻意孤立的訓練過程，也將安德逼向絕境……安德是否會成為大人精心栽培的殺人機器？一次次勝利的背後，要付出什麼沉重的代價？殲滅蟲族的任務，究竟是星際浩劫還是人類的救贖？看似單純的模擬遊戲，又隱藏著什麼不為人知的祕密？ 《戰爭遊戲》發表於1985年，一舉奪得科幻小說界最高榮譽星雲獎及雨果獎，其續集《亡靈代言人》（Speaker for the Dead）發表於次年，也獲得星雲獎和雨果獎，使歐森．史考特．卡德（Orson Scott Card）成為唯一一位曾連續兩年贏得這兩項大獎的作家。2008年，他更獲得美國圖書館協會所頒發的「愛德華終生成就獎」（Margaret A. Edwards Award），以表彰他對青少年文學的傑出貢獻。卡德的作品不僅被全世界成人和青少年讀者喜愛，也被廣泛運用在學校教學。