Editing Ender's Game (section)

== Creation and inspiration ==
The original "[[Ender's Game (short story)|Ender's Game]]" is a [[short story]] published in 1977 that conveys Ender's experiences in Battle and Command School, training, and application of his talents.

At the age of 16, Card conceived of the 'Battle Room' for zero gravity war game training,<ref>{{cite web |title=A Brief Interview with Orson Scott Card (extended answers) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkDZuzYg5q4 |website=YoutTube.com | date=12 June 2014 |access-date=13 January 2025}}</ref> considering the common failure of WWII trainee pilots to think in three dimensions, and stories from his older brother about various good and bad aspects of his military training.<ref>{{cite web |title=Orson Scott Card {{!}} The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 96 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mt9BpIIUSo |website=YoutTube.com | date=24 May 2020 |access-date=13 January 2025}}</ref> In a commentary track for the 20th anniversary audiobook edition of the novel, as well as in the 1991 Author's Definitive Edition, Card stated that ''Ender's Game'' was written to establish the character of Ender for his role of the Speaker in ''[[Speaker for the Dead]]'', the outline for which he had written before novelizing ''Ender's Game''.<ref name="book">{{cite book|last=Card|first=Orson Scott|title=Ender's Game|publisher=Tor Books|location=New York|year=1991|edition=Author's definitive|chapter=Introduction|isbn=0-8125-5070-6|url=https://archive.org/details/endersgame00card_1}}</ref> Additionally, in the post-script of the 20th anniversary audiobook edition, Card mentions that he named Ender so that he could have a name that sounded like "[[Chess endgame|endgame]]" from chess.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Card |first=Orson Scott |title=Ender's Game Unabridged ed. |publisher=Macmillan Audio |year=2004 |location=New York, NY |pages=Author's Postscript |language=English |type=Audiobook}}</ref> In his 1991 introduction to the novel, Card discussed the influence of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s [[Foundation (book series)|Foundation series]] on the novelette and novel. Historian [[Bruce Catton]]'s work on the [[American Civil War]] also influenced Card.<ref name="book" />

''Ender's Game'' was the first science-fiction novel published entirely online, when it appeared on [[Delphi (online service)|Delphi]] a year before print publication.<ref name="dignazio198612">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/1986-12-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_079_1986_Dec#page/n89/mode/2up | title=What Is Compute! Doing Here? | work=Compute! | date=December 1986 | access-date=9 November 2013 | author=D'Ignazio, Fred | pages=90}}</ref>