Editing Ender's Game (section)

== Critical response ==
''Ender's Game'' won the [[Nebula Award]] for best novel in 1985,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dpsinfo.com/awardweb/nebulas/#1985|title=SFWA Nebula Awards|date=22 November 2008|last=Mann|first=Laurie|access-date=3 January 2009|publisher=dpsinfo.com|archive-date=16 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516052643/http://dpsinfo.com/awardweb/nebulas/#1985|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Hugo Award]] for best novel in 1986,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcon.org/hy.html#86|title=The Hugo Awards By Year|publisher=World Science Fiction Society|date=9 December 2005|access-date=3 January 2009|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080731112501/http://www.worldcon.org/hy.html#86 |archive-date = July 31, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> considered the two most prestigious awards in science fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo.html |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Hugo Awards |publisher=Locus Publications |access-date=2009-01-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103034223/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo.html |archive-date=2010-01-03 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula.html|title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Nebula Awards|publisher=Locus Publications|access-date=2009-01-13|archive-date=2011-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713224818/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula.html|url-status=live}}</ref>  ''Ender's Game'' was also nominated for a Locus Award in 1986.<ref name="WWE-1986"/> In 1999, it placed No.&nbsp;59 on the reader's list of [[Modern Library 100 Best Novels]]. It was also honored with a spot on [[American Library Association]]'s "100 Best Books for Teens".  In 2008, the novel, along with ''[[Ender's Shadow]]'', won the [[Margaret A. Edwards Award]], which honors an author and specific works by that author for lifetime contribution to young adult literature.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisbooknext.com/books-written-by-orson-scott-card.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910201333/http://www.thisbooknext.com/books-written-by-orson-scott-card.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-09-10 |title=Books written by Orson Scott Card |date=2014-09-09 |access-date=2014-09-19 }}</ref> ''Ender's Game'' was included in [[Damien Broderick]]'s book ''Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985–2010''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nonstop-press.com/?p=2439 |title=Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985–2010 — Nonstop Press |publisher=Nonstop-press.com |date=2012-05-05 |access-date=2013-05-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426200920/http://nonstop-press.com/?p=2439 |archive-date=2013-04-26 }}</ref> It ranked number nine on Locus's top SF novels published before 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Locus Best SF Novels of All-Time|url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_locus_bestsf.asp|website=Worlds Without End|language=en|access-date=2020-05-28|archive-date=2020-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523140831/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_locus_bestsf.asp|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[The New York Times]]'' writer Gerald Jonas asserts that the novel's plot summary resembles a "grade Z, made-for-television, science-fiction rip-off movie", but says that Card develops the elements well despite this "unpromising material". Jonas further praises the development of the character [[Ender Wiggin]]: "Alternately likable and insufferable, he is a convincing little [[Napoleon]] in short pants."<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE2DF1339F935A25755C0A963948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1|title=Science Fiction|last=Jonas|first=Gerald|date=1985-06-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2009-01-11|archive-date=2021-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105172954/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/16/books/science-fiction.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The novel has received criticism for its portrayal of violence and its justification. [[Elaine Radford]]'s review, "Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman", posits that Ender Wiggin is an intentional reference by Card to [[Adolf Hitler]] and criticizes the violence in the novel, particularly at the hands of the protagonist.<ref name="Elaine-2">{{cite web|url=http://peachfront.diaryland.com/enderhitlte.html|title=Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman (20 Years Later)|date=2007-03-26|publisher=Elaine Radford|access-date=2009-01-11|archive-date=2019-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930091444/https://peachfront.diaryland.com/enderhitlte.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Card responded to Radford's criticisms in ''Fantasy Review'', the same publication. Radford's criticisms are echoed in [[John Kessel]]'s essay "Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality", wherein Kessel states: "Ender gets to strike out at his enemies and still remain morally clean. ''Nothing'' is his fault."<ref name="Kessel">{{cite web|url=http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm |title=Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality |last=Kessel |first=John |year=2004 |publisher=Science Fiction Foundation |access-date=2009-01-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227053817/http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm |archive-date=2008-12-27 }}</ref> Noah Berlatsky makes similar claims in his analysis of the relationship between colonization and science fiction, where he describes ''Ender's Game'' as in part a justification of "Western expansion and genocide".<ref name="Atlantic_SF_imperial">{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/why-sci-fi-keeps-imagining-the-enslavement-of-white-people/361173/ |title=Why Sci-Fi Keeps Imagining the Subjugation of White People |website=The Atlantic |date=April 25, 2014 |author=Noah Berlatsky |access-date=March 22, 2015 |archive-date=March 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316174827/http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/why-sci-fi-keeps-imagining-the-enslavement-of-white-people/361173/ |url-status=live }}</ref> However, more recently, science fiction scholar Mike Ryder has refuted the claims of Kessel and Radford, arguing that Ender is exploited by powers beyond his control.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ryder |first1=Mike |title=The Literature of Drones: Ethics and Remote Killing in Ender's Game |journal=Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction |date=2023 |issue=144 |url=https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-literature-of-drones-ethics-and-remote-killing-in-enders-game(168852a0-ced2-42dd-b3bc-0cb913422754).html}}</ref>

The [[U.S. Marine Corps]] Professional Reading List makes the novel recommended reading at several lower ranks, and again at Officer Candidate/Midshipman.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = USMC Professional Reading Program (website)
  | work = Reading List by Grade
  | publisher = [[Marine Corps University]]
  | date = 2014-12-13
  | url = http://guides.grc.usmcu.edu/content.php?pid=408059&sid=4909977
  | format = Website
  | access-date = 2014-12-13
  | archive-date = 2014-12-14
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  | url-status = dead
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The book was placed on the reading list by Captain [[John F. Schmitt]], author of FMFM-1 (Fleet Marine Force Manual, on maneuver doctrine) for "provid[ing] useful allegories to explain why militaries do what they do in a particularly effective shorthand way".<ref name = USMCEnders3>{{cite web
  | title = Ender's Game Discussion Guide
  | work = USMC Professional Reading Program
  | publisher = [[Marine Corps University]]
  | date = 2009-09-25
  | url = http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/lejeune_leadership/LLI%20Documnets/Enders'%20Game%203.pdf
  | access-date = 2010-09-08
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110124133745/http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/lejeune_leadership/LLI%20Documnets/Enders%27%20Game%203.pdf
  | archive-date = 2011-01-24
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref>
In introducing the novel for use in leadership training, Marine Corps University's Lejeune program opines that it offers "lessons in training methodology, leadership, and ethics as well. . . . ''Ender's Game'' has been a stalwart item on the Marine Corps Reading List since its inception".<ref name=USMCEnders3/> It is also used as an early fictional example of [[Educational game|game-based learning]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pellegrino|first1=Joseph|last2=Scott|first2=Amy|date=2004|title=The Transition from Simulation to Game-Based Learning|journal=Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference|citeseerx=10.1.1.454.5486}}</ref>