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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, book cover
Novel · 1985 · 324 pages

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card won the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel. It was also a finalist or poll selection for the 1986 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

HugoWinner · 1986
NebulaWinner · 1986
LocusPoll selection · 1986

Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers".

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Winner, 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel · Source ↗

Locus poll selection, 1986 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel · Source ↗

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