 | This Hugo and Nebula award winning masterpiece captures the world from a small child's point of view amazingly well. Ender is a little boy who is smaller than everyone else his age and smarter than most everyone else of any age. His very existence is due solely to the hope that he might one day save the world. He is persecuted by his jealous classmates and older brother and to him he seems the plaything of arbitrary omnipotent adults. The world to him seems fairly malevolent, but he faces and overcomes his challenges with clarity and determination. Especially interesting is his explicit analysis of difficult social situations and his social maneuvering for his very survival amongst hostile classmates at the cadet training academy at which he arrives. He is as heroic a little kid as ever could be imagined -- and yes, by the end of the book, Ender does face the challenge of saving humanity.
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
