Facts about Ender's Game

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   A Hugo Award and Nebula Award winner, Ender's Game is one of the few novels to win both science fiction's top honors in the same year.

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   In Ender's Game, the alien enemies known as the Formics are also commonly called Buggers, a nickname used throughout the novel by soldiers and commanders.

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   Andrew Wiggin was only six years old when he entered Battle School in Ender's Game, making him the youngest commander in the military's history.

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   Mazer Rackham, the legendary military commander in Ender's Game, was actually already dead for decades when Ender fought the final battle against the Formic fleet.

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   The 1985 novelette version of Ender's Game was only 15,000 words, roughly one-third the length of the 1991 novel expansion.

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   Orson Scott Card published Ender's Game in 1985 as a novelette in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine before expanding it into a full novel in 1991.

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