Ender's Game

So far, I have found the book "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card to be very interesting. This book is hard to put down just like everything else that we have read in Science Fiction class. The book is about Andrew Wiggins (who was given the nickname 'Ender' by his sister Valentine) a 'Third Child' who was sent into space for military training in case of another attack by alien buggers. In the novel, the government only gives families money to send two children through school except for special cases. Ender's sibilings were both geniuses but Peter was too cruel and Valentine was too sensitive, so his parents had a third child in hopes that he would be a perfect mix of both, and he was. I noticed a few things that reminded me of other pieces we studied in Sci-Fi. The rotating space ship reminded me of in 2001: A Space Odyssey when they did the same thing to stimulate gravity. Also, I notesed the usage of insects as an enemy. Although in this novel, these are alien buggers, but it is still a similar theme to short stories we have read like the Sandkings. I look forward to reading the rest of this book.