Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, is an exceptional novel created by an extremely intelligent, intuitive, and talented individual. This novel addresses many societal issues and is almost satirical, comparable to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Some important topics in Ender's Game are compassion, humanity, and the relationship between adults and children. These three elements define the main character, Ender, and influence how he makes decisions and ultimately changes the world. The setting of this particular novel is in several locations (including Greensboro, NC, Battle School, and Command School (on Eros, one of Saturn's moons)), but takes place somewhere in the future. From context clues, it could happen within 100-300 years, when humans will have learned to manipulate gravity, make extremely fast computers, permanently colonize nearly every planet in the solar system, create reliable virtual reality hardware, and create software. so complex that even the software designers don't know what it does. There are many characters in this book, but only a few have any real impact on the main character. The main character and protagonist of this story is Ender Wiggin. At the beginning of the novel, Ender is 6 years old, but has the mental capacity of a 15-year-old, thanks to favorable genetics. When a tracking device is removed from Ender, he gets into a fight with another boy at school named Stilson. Despite being drastically weaker than Stilson, Ender mortally wounds Stilson, but is unaware that he has done so. When questioned later by Hyrum Graff, a member of the International Fleet, Ender said that the reason he injured Stilson so badly was so that Ender would not only win that fight, but win all future fights, even before... . middle of paper...... At the end of the novel, Ender decides to spend his life trying to find a suitable planet for the Formics to live on again. In conclusion, Ender's Game is one of the best books I have ever read. . Orson Scott Card's ability to tell the story from different characters at certain points and to tell the story from a third person perspective makes for fun reading. Ender's Game also highlights the moral and ethical problems and issues associated with the use of children as military tacticians. Card emphasized the idea that, even though they were children, Ender and the other students had very real thoughts and feelings, no different than those of adults four times their age. The novel is an incredibly lucid read, but still strongly provokes thoughts and ideas in experienced readers. I would highly encourage anyone I meet who has an interest in science fiction to read this novel.