Free tuition, yes, but the way
Ender viewed it, no free ride.
It appears to be Utah, which via Hawaii and Illinois-Iowa-Indiana reaches the 3 states in the first core, the 5 states in the second core, the 7 states connecting the first core to the second, and
enders Kentucky and New Hampshire, a total of 21.
Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI): "All But War is Simulation." As Dragon Army's leader,
Ender embraced these concepts.
It's nothing so powerful as the Force, or Neo's Matrix-bending abilities, though "
Ender's Game'' dedicates nearly its entire run time to Battle School, where our hero and his fellow recruits practice various drills, including an anti-gravity game (the rules of which aren't terribly clear) that looks like the next best thing to Quidditch.
Butterfield makes ideal casting for
Ender: He's scrawny and physically unimposing, yet there's an intensity to his stare that suggests he might indeed be masking deeper (or darker) gifts.
The talented supporting cast includes Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin as
Ender's sister Valentine Wiggin, the brilliant Doubt star Viola Davis as Major Gwen Anderson and True Grit's promising starlet Hailee Steinfeld is Petra Arkanian.
Ender nailing along with insertion of cannulated cancellous screw is a simple procedure with short operating time.
As both adult and child characters continuously cross the ostensibly clear borders between wrong and right, nearly all of the major events and relationships in the novel are clouded with ambiguity, especially in terms of the deception that leads to
Ender's destruction of the aliens.
Even critics who felt that Price doesn't convincingly build her world (there's no explanation of the Spore Wars or how the technology enables the
Ender's brain to control those forced to rent out their bodies) admired Price's ability to keep the action--and the suspense--moving at a compelling pace.
Readers who appreciated the breakneck pace of the
Ender series will be justifiably tempted to skip these parts for the next stop in Westil.
Orson Scott Card is the recipient of the 2008 Margaret A, Edwards Award honoring his outstanding lifetime contribution to writing for teens for his novels
Ender's Game and
Ender's Shadow, both published by Tor Books.
Set in the universe of Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning
Ender's Game, it tells of the son of a Puritan preacher, young Zeck, who is recruited against his will for Battle School.
Orson Scott Card's
Ender's Game offers one such thought experiment for examining the Bush Administration's NSS.
Evelyne
Ender's Architexts of Memory is no exception to this reflex of putting the professional medium (here, language) ahead of the stuff it means to represent.
In the words of former East
Ender Sid Berg, "on an evening, a summer evening ...
