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戰爭遊戲

內容簡介

內容簡介 除非你看過這本書，別說你讀過科幻小說！二十世紀重量級經典，2013登上大螢幕！這個男孩，是拯救世界的最後希望，但在這之前，他得先活著走出戰鬥學校……地球再度遭到攻擊。外星「蟲族」準備好要展開最後的襲擊。人類能否存活，就得仰賴一個可以擊敗蟲族的軍事天才。但這個人是誰？安德．威金，頭腦絕頂聰明、心靈純真善良。他是天生的軍事戰略家，但同時也是個未成年的小孩，被國際艦隊徵召進入軍事學校時年僅六歲。從安德踏入新家「戰鬥學校」的那一刻起，他的童年就此告終。在戰鬥學校中，所有孩子被編派到不同的部隊，在模擬外太空無重力狀態的「戰鬥室」中，進行一次又一次的「戰爭遊戲」，演練對抗蟲族時的各種戰略技巧。他們練習瞄準射擊、利用隨機分布的星體作掩護或攻擊、變換不同陣形以殲滅敵人。在這個大人精心設計的戰鬥培育計畫中，所有一切都是為了擊敗敵人而設計，失敗和退縮不被允許，弱者註定慘遭遺棄。安德的天賦，使他從所有菁英學生中脫穎而出，在短時間內從菜鳥新兵，躍升為全校最受矚目的指揮官，卻也同時犧牲了親情、友誼，以及一個男孩在童年時期的種種歡樂。激烈高壓的競爭環境，更引發其他男孩的嫉妒和恨意；刻意孤立的訓練過程，也將安德逼向絕境……安德是否會成為大人精心栽培的殺人機器？一次次勝利的背後，要付出什麼沉重的代價？殲滅蟲族的任務，究竟是星際浩劫還是人類的救贖？看似單純的模擬遊戲，又隱藏著什麼不為人知的祕密？

作者介紹

作者介紹 Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and it's many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into the Ender Quintet, the five books that chronicle the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, that follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and are set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, that tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien ""Buggers"".Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977 -- the short story ""Gert Fram"" in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelet version of ""Ender's Game"" in the August issue of Analog.The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.He is the author many sf and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series ""The Tales of Alvin Maker"" (beginning with Seventh Son), There are also stand-alone science fiction and fantasy novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's recent work includes the Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old. Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.

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