After his nineteenth consecutive victory, Ender is told that his Army is being broken up and his toon leaders made commanders in their turn, while he is transferred to Command School for the next stage of his education. Here, veteran Maezr Rackham tutors him in the use of a space battle simulator. Eventually, many of his former toon leaders serve under him once more.
Once familiar with the simulator, they fight a series of what Maezr tells them are mock battles against a computer-controlled enemy. Ender's team wins again and again, finally destroying a planet that the enemy fleet seems to be protecting.
Once the battle is over, Maezr tells Ender that all battles were real, the children's commands having been relayed to the fleet, and that he has destroyed the enemy's home world and ended the war. This short story was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. Although the basic plot is the same, the novel introduces many other elements. Ender shrugged. Maezr began his explanation. We're staging this battle around a planet.
Maezr reached out and touched his shoulder. Ender shrugged him off. Maezr then grew serious and said, "Ender Wiggins, for the last months you have been the commander of our fleets. There were no games. The battles were real. Your only enemy was the enemy. You won every battle. And finally today you fought them at their home world, and you destroyed their world, their fleet, you destroyed them completely, and they'll never come against us again.
You did it. So we trained children, who didn't know anything but the game , and never knew when it would become real. That was the theory, and you proved that the theory worked. Yes and definite yes. The Battle Room counts because of the earlier quote that says he played the game all his life , which means the Battle Room is included.
As you yourself noted, this doesn't fit because the Mind Game wasn't in the original short story. In the books, Ender ends things. Specifically, at the end of the story, when he thinks he's still playing a game controlling a simulation space fleet, he actually ends the Formic threat.
But, Ender also ends other things. He ends the way the Battle School was run, by ending the existing dynamics of the Battle Room games. It first appeared in the August issue of Analog magazine and was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. Although the foundation of the Ender's Game series, the short story is not properly part of the Ender's Game universe, as there are many discrepancies in continuity.
Get A Copy. Published August by Dell Magazines first published January 1st More Details Original Title. Ender's Saga short stories. Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novelette Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Ender's Game Short Story , please sign up. I've just purchased an original Analog edition from August , I've never read this short version of EG before.
It'll take a while to get through customs I imagine so I'll have to wait to read it! I love EG and all of the others tales in the EG universe though. This won't disappoint me right? See 1 question about Ender's Game Short Story…. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details.
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At the end of the first school day after the removal of his monitor, the bullies of the school began teasing and mildly attacking him for it. In response and to defend himself, Ender beat up the ringleader, Stilson , in a brutal assault, to end not just that fight, but all future fights with the bully and his gang.
Although Ender did not know until years later, Stilson later died in a hospital because of the injuries that Ender gave him that day. When Ender returned home, he met his older brother Peter and his older sister Valentine.
Both Peter and Valentine were geniuses as well, but while Valentine loved Ender, Peter enjoyed abusing and almost torturing him. Ender was put on a shuttle to go to Battle School , which was actually a space station orbiting Earth.
After some initial difficulties with his launch group created by Colonel Hyrum Graff , Ender became friends with Alai. Bonzo refused to allow Ender to participate in battles, but Petra Arkanian helped Ender learn basic combat skills. Bonzo's refusal to allow Ender to participate and Ender's own actions caused him to become the highest ranked soldier in Battle School; which helped Bonzo transfer Ender to Rat Army , commanded by Rose The Nose. Upon his arrival, Ender was placed in Dink Meeker's toon.
The older student Dink began to look after Ender. Meanwhile, Ender's psychological development was monitored by the Mind Game , a complex computer game embedded in the school's computer system. Meanwhile, his two siblings Valentine and Peter continued their own unique lives.
Every bit as intelligent as their brother, but of differing temperaments, they began to integrate themselves into the political discussions on The Nets. Starting as anonymous unknowns, they began to earn respect from the international community by presenting insightful political analysis. Eventually, they adopted the personas Locke and Demosthenes , Peter writing Locke, the peaceful compromise-oriented writer, and Valentine being forced to write Demosthenes, a rabble-rouser.
Both personas began to gain international status. Ender went through his classes quickly and was soon given his own army, Dragon Army , which was supposedly taboo or cursed.
He did not personally know any of his soldiers, and they were all launchies new students or soldiers that other commanders were trying to trade away. Ender organized his army strangely, having five toons of eight rather than four toons of ten, and having each toon split into two sub toons. He taught his army that the enemy's gate was down, how to freeze their own legs and use them as shields when shooting between them, and how to think for themselves rather than to rely on him for instructions and formations for structure.
Ender and his army won every battle they fought in, each more difficult than the last as the Battle School teachers turned the rules on their head. Eventually he was forced to face Salamander Army, still commanded by Bonzo Madrid, who had been silently hating Ender for years. After Dragon Army defeated Salamander easily, Bonzo's rage became uncontrollable.
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