Ender's Game

I just finished reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

I've been meaning to read this book for the past 10 years and just haven't gotten around to it. Boy, was I missing out! This book is definitely one to read and remember.

Ender is a boy named Andrew Wiggin, who lives with his family thousands of years in the future. Aliens have attacked earth twice over the recent centuries, and the earth's government is concerned that a third attack is imminent. As a result, they scan young children to monitor whether they would make good leaders to champion what well may be the last stand to preserve humanity and life as we know it on earth. Ender is believed to be someone who would be a good leader and so is taken away from his family to attend Battle School somewhere in space. Here the students are divided into teams to learn skills and strategies as they compete against other teams to win "battles."

The book reads really easily---even though it takes place thousands of years in the future it flows easily and the focus of so much of the story is on the human interaction of child to child or adult to child, and how our relationships with each other shape our choices and determination to either assimilate with the majority for the sake of peace, or to stand tall individually because in the long run being true to ourselves will give us internal peace.