Orson Scott Card's 1985 novel about a child military genius trained to defeat an alien invasion — notable for exploring strategy, manipulation, empathy, and the ethics of war through a child's perspective — one of the most widely read science fiction novels ever written.
Creates the most compelling account of strategy-as-empathy in SF — Ender's insight that you must understand an enemy completely (love them) to defeat them is a paradoxical meditation on the relationship between empathy and destruction.
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