by Orson Scott Card · Nova · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466653947
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«El joc de l'Ender» is the science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, published by Nova in paperback (368 pages, in Catalan).
Humanity faces the threat of the Insectors, a telepathic alien race intent on destroying it. To find a military genius, the birth of Ender is permitted, a third child in a society with a two-child limit. Between video games and space combat simulations, the young man develops the strategic skills that war demands.
It is the first installment of the Ender Saga. The original novel, Ender's Game, was awarded the Hugo and Nebula prizes.
It is aimed at science fiction readers and young audiences from 12 years old, as well as fans of military training sagas.
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; he has provoked controversy and criticism for his public opposition to homosexuality.
