Ender's Game

Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. New York: Tor, 1985.

According to Anatomy of Wonder 4, ENTRY 4-92, EG is an expansion of 1978 novelette; it is also the first of the Ender's series, followed by Speaker for the Dead (1986) and Xenocide (1991). See for training of a boy to become the perfect commander against the "Bugger" enemy, insectoid enemies attacking our the solar system (cf. R. A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers). The training involves VR, in a simulation that proves only too real, and deadly—apparently a total xenocide: the extermination of an alien species. (RDE, 18/04/00)