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GUEST REVIEW: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Today’s review is by NatCh who helps run MobileRead. MobileRead is one of the best sources about ebooks, ebook hardware and software on the internet. The site has over 3,000 public domain books in ebook format hand coded by its members and freely available.
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Ender’s Game
By: Orson Scott Card
A review by MobileRead’s NatCh
Note: if you haven’t read this story, and you don’t want to be know what happens, please don’t read this review. I’m not engaging in wanton plot revelation, but there are a few spoilers, some of them important, which have squeaked by. I haven’t given away the ending, but even so. You have been warned.

081255070601mzzzzzzzjpg.gifAt first glance, Ender’s Game appears to be just another “smart-aleck young man saves the world” story. Perhaps with a younger than typical hero, and perhaps he’s not as smart-aleck as all that when you get down to it, but still. However, closer examination reveals that it’s a great deal more than that, and perhaps that’s not what it is at all.

The story originally began as a …