A decent companion to Ender's game; not all the essays were a hit for me but I'm glad to have gotten different perspectives on the Enders-verse

Having not read the Ender's series I went in this completely unaware, which did dampen my thoughts of this book. However, there were a couple of fab short stories that I did enjoy and I will pick up the main series in the future.

Good book. Great to reread it. Recommend it to my students. Nice older Scifi. Check it out!!!!!!!

I loved Enders Game so much that I was sure I would love this book, sadly I had to force myself to finish it. Which is why I'm not DNF'ing it. The writing style wasn't the same and I really didn't enjoy the plot and the way it all came together. I guessed the ending which I had hoped I wouldn't be able to do.

You know a work of literature has achieved 'classic' status when there are books of essays <em>about</em> the work being published. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game qualified as a 'classic' a long time ago, but this collection of essays on various subjects within and about the work, cements the status.

Card himself edits this collection (which strikes me as just a little bit odd and likely doesn't get quite the diversity one might wish for in such a collection) and provides a series of Q&amp;A's between essays. It can certainly be argued that no one knows the work better than the author and I probably enjoyed Card's responses to frequently asked and insightful questions as much as some of the essays.

While I have read <em>Ender's Game </em>and really enjoyed the recent film, I have not read any of the other books in the series. That seems to work just fine within the context of this book as most of the essays deal most specifically with <em>Ender's Game</em>, though some do reference some of the later books in the series.

I can not say that I have a favorite essay from this collection. Most offered some interesting insight into the book or the characters. But at the same time, none of the insight is earth-shattering or of such significance that it makes me want to dive in and re-read the book. I was especially pleased with Mary Robinette Kowal's "The Cost of Breaking the Rules" and Aaron Johnston's "Rethinking the Child Hero."

Most of the essays are quite typical and pretty much what you would expect from a writer's perspective of another's work. The interesting surprise comes from the military side, with Colonel Tom Ruby looking at the work from a very unique perspective. And John F. Schmitt's essay "Ender Wiggin, USMC" told of how the author used the book to change the way Marines fight. These were easily the most interesting essays in the collection and perhaps some of the most interesting essays on a work of literature that I have read.

Whether you're a fan of the book or not, if you enjoy reading others' insight into books, this should appeal to you.

This book contains the following:

Introduction - Orson Scott Card
"How It Should Have Ended" - Eric James Stone
"The Monster's Heart" - John Brown
"The Cost of Breaking the Rules" - Mary Robinette Kowal
"Winning and Losing in <em>Ender's Game</em>" - Hilari Bell
"Parallax Regained" - David Lubar and Alison S. Myers
"Mirror, Mirror" - Alethea Kontis
"Size Matters" - Janis Ian
"Rethinking the Child Hero" - Aaron Johnston
"A Teenless World" - Mette Ivie Harrison
"Ender on Leadership" - Colonel Tom Ruby
"Ender Wiggin, USMC" - John F. Schmitt
"The Price of Our Inheritance" - Neal Shusterman
"If the Formics Love Their Children Too" - Ken Scholes
"Ender's Game: A Guide to Life" - Matt Nix
About the Editor

Looking for a good book? <em>Ender's World</em> is a collection of essays (edited by Orson Scott Card) that explore some of the characters and themes in the classic sci-fi work, <em>Ender's Game</em>.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.