I recommend a book to you, well, it can also be said to be a series, foreign.
Ender series, I don't know if I've seen it, very good science fiction,
include
Ender's game Ender's shadow, the spokesman of the dead, the shadow of the overlord, the son of Yi Tu's spirit.
Wait a minute. However, four Chinese versions can be downloaded online, and the rest are in English. There seem to be nine.
If you want to read it, I suggest reading Ender's Game first (this is the first book and it is necessary).
Then look at the spokesman of the deceased.
You can also see the shadow of Ender (Ender's game parallel novel)
Finally, look at the shadow of overlord (be sure to look after Ender's shadow)
I will give you all the resources I can find. What's your email address?
Let me give you the beginning of Ender's Game first, and see if it suits your taste, hehe.
Author: orson scott card, USA.
Translator: Li Yi
ISBN: 7-5364-5326-4/I 38
Publishing House: Sichuan Science and Technology Publishing House
Word count: 250,000 words
Page count: 327 pages
Book Introduction
The terrible alien monster-Zerg is threatening the earth more and more seriously, but all countries in the world spend a lot of money and materials in space to build game bases for children, and constantly choose young children to play various confrontation games. The difficulty of the game is increasing, people are constantly being eliminated, tutors deliberately isolate excellent students, and excellent students compete by hook or by crook ... The ultimate goal of all this is to choose a child with the most stable psychological state and the strongest nerves. The earth authorities bet on the ultimate game genius, who will gain the command of the earth expedition fleet and launch a decisive battle with the Zerg. Andrew Viking became the genius of this game, but the end of the world began in a way he never thought of. ...
Brief introduction of the author
Orson scott card-orson scott card
Orson scott card is one of the hottest characters in American science fiction. In the history of American science fiction, no one ever won Hugo Award and nebula Award twice in two years, until Card was born. 1986, his "Ender's Game" included Hugo Award and Xingyun Award. 1987, his sequel "The Spokesman of the Dead" won the two highest awards in the world science fiction literature again.
Card was born in Richland, Washington and grew up in Utah. He received degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah respectively, and now lives in North Carolina. Card firmly believes that novels are instructive and should send positive messages to readers. The "An De" series of novels fully embodies the author's ideas. This series also includes Shadow of Ender and Shadow of Overlord.
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Orson scott card is a popular science fiction writer and has won the favor of various award committees. From the publication of 1977' s first novel, in the writing career of more than 20 years, only Hugo Award and nebula Award were nominated for 24 times, and finally won the trophy for 5 times. In addition, he also won the Campbell Prize and the World Fantasy Literature Award.
Card is keen on describing young geniuses. To some extent, those fictional characters are his own shadows. Ender and Nafi ... they create miracles in the world imagined by Card, and Card himself creates miracles in the construction of the world that carries them. His first novel, The Game of Ender (1977), won not only the Hugo Award nomination for Card, but also the Campbell Award for Best New Author-it seems that no one has won such an honor except Card. Just a few years later, Card's novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel, The Man Who Spoke for the Dead (1986) won two world-class science fiction awards for two consecutive years, creating an unprecedented one in the history of science fiction.
Before the full version of Ender's Game, Card published seven novels, but his honor at that stage came from short stories. From 1977 to 1985, five short stories by Card * * * were nominated for Hugo Award or nebula Award.
1985 is a major turning point in Card's career as a writer. With Ender's Game, Card became famous and became one of the first-class science fiction writers.
Card is a shrewd writer and never wastes any valuable sci-fi ideas. He is good at using a novel as the basis of an imaginary world, thus creating more legendary stories about the world. This cunning practice and superb writing skills make Card's world present a three-dimensional real texture. Of the 45 novels published by Card so far, 29 are series novels.
Obviously, the Ender series, led by Ender's Game, is Card's most important series of novels. In addition to the two films mentioned above, this series has now developed into Xenocide (1991), Children of the Mind (1996), The Shadow of Ender (1999) and The Shadow of Overlord (.
Card has created seven series, of which "Ande" series is the most potential one, and we still can't see its end. In his completed series, he is composed of the memory of the earth (1992), the call of the earth (1993), the ships of the earth (1994) and the out-of-control earth. 1995) and Native (1995) constitute the "Going Home" trilogy, which is Card's most popular series of novels. The first three stories in this series all took place on a colonial planet called Harmony. The earth was destroyed by a nuclear war 40 million years ago. A supercomputer named "oversoul" has stopped the evolution of human beings and controlled everything in harmony, but for thousands of years it has pushed this supercomputer, which aims to guide people away from war, to the end of "life". Before he died, the oversoul convened and formed a family-like organization composed of young Nafi and others. They were endowed with super powers and returned to the earth. The last two parts of this series were naturally sent back to Earth from outer space. The descendants of mankind who returned from the universe were surprised to find that the native earthlings have been divided into flying people, tree people and earthlings. At the same time, the contradiction between Nafei and his brother Ermak, who has super powers, finally reached its peak.
Card's recent independent novel is also excellent. For example, Pastwatch: The Salvation of Christopher Columbus (1996) makes people think. In the novel, time travelers try to stop Columbus from discovering America-at least stop Columbus from returning to Europe after discovering America.
These novels mentioned above are not ordinary science fiction, they have established Card's important position in science fiction. Although he has not changed the overall style of science fiction, it shows the flexibility of science fiction today. Card's way of integrating religion into science fiction has brought a new look to science fiction. Card's importance lies in his thoughts and his writing skills. His aboveboard words successfully expanded our thinking.
The sci-fi core of Ender's Game is the idea of simulating a war room. Card said in the preface of Ender's Game that the idea appeared when he was 16 years old-1967. 10 years later, according to this idea, Card wrote a short story of the same name and published it in the science fiction magazine Analogy edited by Ben Bova. Ben Bova once asserted that Ender's story would be the basis of Card's career as a writer. Today, Card's great success in Ender series really proves Ben Bova's foresight with facts.
At 1967, even at 1977, the idea of simulating a battle room was still full of strong sci-fi colors, but by 1985, when Card applied it to the full-length version of Ender's Game, the rising computer technology had greatly reduced its mystery. Card can't be unaware of this. Almost fatal to a science fiction novel. However, Ka skillfully paid attention to Ender's growth. Obviously, he knows the heroic dream unique to young people like the back of his hand, and his proper grasp of readers' psychology and skillful narrative skills have completely changed the disadvantage of the novel in conception. As a result, like many bildungsroman novels, every step of Ender's Test tied the reader's nerves tightly, and Ender's Game finally achieved more brilliant success than its original short story.
Card was born in a Mormon family, and his creation was deeply influenced by Mormonism. In his novels, the fate of individuals and teams is closely related, and the protagonist often has the charisma and insight of God and controls the future of the world. Ender is a typical Carden hero. He has a particularly keen sense of spatial orientation since he was a child. He was taken away from home by the army and received cruel training. He constantly overcame himself and made himself invincible in the face of various challenges. Ender finally won the war game, but only then did he know what he had done: he completely destroyed an alien race.
Ender's Game is a cruel and surprising story. The instructor in charge of selecting and training the commander-in-chief of the Earth Fleet never gave Ender a fair chance, and even threatened his life by barbarians. And the war between humans and zerg is so incredibly over. Ender has experienced too many accidents, and once it is explained clearly, all this will become inevitable. After all, Ender shoulders the fate of all mankind.
Intriguingly, Ender became the savior of the earth, but he could never return to his blue home-it became the territory of his evil brother, and in the eyes of the earth people, he became a demon. Ender only occupied the zerg world accidentally destroyed by his own hands with his sister. Ender maintained his brilliant humanity, but the development of the world made a very strong irony.
When Ender's Game was published in Science Fiction World Supplement in abridged form, it was enthusiastically sought after by readers. Today, the book we published is a complete version of it. I believe you will like this book. The latest news of the book itself is that Warner Bros. is preparing to put it and its sequel "The Spokesman of the Dead" on the screen. Card wrote the script himself, and the film will be directed by wolfgang petersen, an international director who has directed Air Force One, Perfect Storm, Attack from the Deep Sea and other blockbusters.
American Book Review Weekly
A touching novel. The plot is unexpected and inevitable. The hero Andrew Viking is real. He is a young Napoleon, amiable, respectable and sometimes daunting.
American book weekly
A gripping space legend, a sharp attack on militarism.
The development track of the United States
The game is fierce. The characters are lifelike, lifelike. The alien race in the book also left a deep impression on readers.
Ben Bova, a famous American science fiction writer.
In this novel, Card fully meets the readers' expectations-and greatly exceeds them.
Gene Wolfe, a famous American science fiction writer.
Ka deeply understands the living environment of human beings and expresses his own opinions to a perfect degree.
Explanation:
Ender's series of works is his masterpiece. At present, the following works have been published:
1. ender's game
2. The spokesman of the deceased.
3. Heterospecies extinction
4. Children of the Mind
5. ender's shadow
6. The shadow of hegemony
This is in the order of publication, but in the best reading order, my personal suggestion is 1, 5, 6, 2, 3, 4, because it is in chronological order.
The story background of Ender's Game is that human beings have entered the space age, but in just a few decades, they have been attacked twice by an alien intelligent creature, Bugger, which is called "the first invasion" and "the second invasion" in history.
In the "second invasion", the main human fleet was completely annihilated, almost completely annihilated. However, a commander named Mazer Rackham miraculously destroyed the Zerg fleet, which occupied an absolute advantage in quantity and quality, with only a small fleet, thus saving mankind.
Today, 80 years later, mankind will face the "third invasion", and the only way for mankind to win is to have a talented commander like Messer Rickham again. Senior officials of the international fleet are well aware of this. They sent almost all gifted children on earth to space warfare schools, hoping to train an ideal commander, but their efforts for decades ended in failure.
Fortunately, in the last ten years, Colonel Graff, the principal of the Space Combat School, seems to have found the last glimmer of hope-a gifted child named Peter Wiggin appeared in front of him, and Graff almost decided that this child was the target he was looking for. However, after years of observation, Graff found that although Peter is still a child, he has shown extremely evil and cruel nature. So he advised the Viking couple to have a girl in their second child, hoping that she would have the same wisdom as her brother and be gentle in nature. In this case, the second daughter of the Viking family, Valentine Wiggin, was born. Ironically, however, this girl is too weak and kind. Just like her brother, she is not suitable to be a commander.
Vikings were allowed to have a third child as an exception (at that time, the law stipulated that each couple could only have two children), so the Viking "third" was born. As expected, his personality is a mixture of Peter and Valentine. His real name is Andrew Wiggin, but he prefers to call himself Andrew Wiggin, because his sister Valentine has called him that since he was a child. In any case, this name seems to be a good omen for his upcoming role, and he may be the "terminator" of this war.
Ender is undoubtedly a genius among geniuses. However, whether he can become the ideal commander of Graf remains to be tested. Graf is more nervous than Ender, because he knows that there is no time to choose the next candidate, and success or failure is at stake.
So a war that has no smoke but is related to the fate of the whole mankind is quietly launched in the space battle school. ...
What challenges will Ender face? Can he be an ideal commander and the savior of mankind? Will the genius of Peter and Valenti be buried on the earth? Why did the Zerg go to war with humans? What is the truth of the "third invasion"? Since it is a war related to human life and death, why is it called "Ender's game"?
After reading this book, you will get a satisfactory answer.
The first chapter Lao San
"I observe with his eyes and listen with his ears. I tell you, he is unique, at least he is very close to the person we are looking for. "
"You said that to his brother."
"For some reason, his brother was found to be unqualified, but this has nothing to do with his ability."
"So is his sister. I doubt whether he will be the same again. His personality is so weak that he easily gives in to others' wishes. "
"But not to his enemies."
"Then what shall we do? Always put him in the enemy? "
"We have no choice."
"I think you like this child."
"If the Zerg catch him, they will find that I will be his closest uncle."
"After all, we are saving the world. Let's do another experiment with him. "
The woman in the monitor whispered, "Ender, I think you are tired of this terrible monitor. I have good news for you. We are going to take it off today. Believe me, it won't hurt at all. "
Ender nodded, painless? Lying, he thought. Adults say that it always hurts if it doesn't hurt, and they know it very well. Sometimes lies are more reliable than the truth.
"Come and sit here, ender. Sit on the examination table. The doctor will see you soon. "
The monitor is off. Ender tried to imagine the situation after the small instrument was removed from the back of his neck, so that he wouldn't lift his neck when he rolled over in bed and wouldn't feel tingling when he took a shower. From now on, Peter won't hate me anymore. I want to go home and let him know that I am a normal child like him. That's not bad. He'll forgive me for taking off the monitor a year later than him. We will live in the same house, but we won't be friends, ever. Peter is too dangerous. We are not enemies, but friends, just brothers. When he wants to play Space Warrior and Zerg, maybe I will have to play with him, or maybe I can read a book.
But ender knew very well that even if he thought so, Peter would not let him go. When Peter is in a crazy state, there is something in his eyes. Every time Ender looks into his eyes, he knows that Peter will not let him go. Ender seemed to hear Peter's cry again. I am playing the piano. Ender, come and help me turn over the music. Oh, this boy with a monitor is too busy to care about his brother? Or is he too smart? Why didn't you kill Bug Man, space warrior Ender? No, no, I don't need your help. I'll do it myself, you bastard, you redundant bastard!
"It won't take long, Ender." The doctor said.
Ender nodded.
"It's easy to take off, there will be no infection, no harm, but it will be a little itchy. Some people feel that they have lost something. You may be looking for something you can't find. You don't know what you are looking for. I'm telling you, you're actually looking for a monitor. It's gone. This feeling will disappear in a few days. "
The doctor fiddled with Ender's neck, and Ender suddenly felt a sharp pain, as if a needle had stuck from his neck to his stomach. His neck cramped, his body bent back strongly and his head hit the bed. He felt that his feet were heavy and his hands were tightly held together, which made him feel pain.
"Nurse!" The doctor shouted, "Come and help!" A nurse came in panting. "Help him relax these muscles, pass me that, quick! What are you waiting for! "
Something stuck into his hand, and Ender couldn't see what it was. He fell off the examination table. "Get him!" The nurse screamed.
"Fix him."
"Come on, doctor, he's too strong for me to catch."
"Don't press it all, you'll kill him!"
Ender felt a needle inserted into the back of his neck, which was very painful. His whole body was filled with severe pain and his muscles slowly relaxed. Now he can cry loudly.
"How do you feel, Ender?" The nurse said.
Ender can't talk. They carried him to the table to check his pulse and other things he didn't understand.
The doctor's voice trembled a little. "They have put this thing in the child's body for three years. What do they really want to know? We may kill him, don't they know? We can turn him into a vegetable. "
"When will the anesthetic expire?" The nurse asked.
"Leave him here for at least an hour and look at him. If he can't talk in fifteen minutes, call me at once. We may hurt him forever, he is not a worm! "
Before class 15 minutes, he returned to Mr. Peng's class, but his steps were still a little unsteady.
"Are you all right, Ender?" Miss Peng asked.
He nodded.
"Are you sick?"
He shook his head.
"You look sick."
"I'm fine."
"You'd better sit down and have a rest, Ender."
He walked to his position, but suddenly stopped to think, what am I looking for? I don't remember what I was looking for.
"Your seat is over there." Miss Peng said.
He sat down, but he felt that he needed something else, something he had disappeared. I will find the answer, he thought.
"Where is your monitor?" The girl sitting behind him said softly.
Ender shrugged.
"His monitor is gone." She whispered to the other students.
Ender touched the back of his neck, where there was a bandage and the monitor was gone. Now he's like everyone else.
"Did you wash it off? Ender. " The boy sitting across the corridor asked. Ender can't remember his name, Peter? Wrong.
"Be quiet, Stevenson." Teacher Peng said that Stevenson smirked.
Teacher Peng is teaching multiplication, and Ender doodles on his electronic desk. He drew the outline of a huge island and asked the computer to simulate its three-dimensional model from all angles. Miss Peng will know what he is doing. He is not attentive in class, but she won't disturb him. He often knows the answer to the question, even if he doesn't pay attention to the class.
On his electronic desk, there is a line of words moving down from the top of the screen. Before it reached the bottom of the screen, Ender saw what it said-"Lao San!" The government only allows each family to have no more than two children. Ender is the third child specially approved by the government, so other children ironically call him "the third child".
Ender smiled. He is the first person who knows how to send information. He was proud that all the people who satirized him repeatedly used his teaching methods. It's not his fault to be the third child, it's the government's idea, and only they have the right to do so-how many third children like Ender have the opportunity to go to school? Now that his monitor has been removed, it shows that the government's experiment has not been successful. He thought that if they knew this, they would be reluctant to authorize his birth. For some reason, his experiment seems to have no effect and seems to have stopped.
When the bell rang, some students turned off the screen on the electronic desk, some students hurriedly entered memos into it, and some students transferred their homework or data to their home computers. Several students are printing on the printer. Ender put his hand on the keyboard beside the electronic desk, thinking about how clumsy an adult would be with this keyboard. Of course, they use big keyboards-but how can their thick fingers draw delicate lines? Ender can. The line he drew is very thin, and it can go around 79 times from the center to the edge of the picture. This is how the teacher kills time by teaching arithmetic. When he was three years old, his sister Valenti taught him arithmetic in class.
"Are you all right, Ender?"
"Yes, Miss Peng."
"If you don't leave, you will miss the school bus."
Ender nodded and stood up. All the other students left. They should be waiting for the bus. His monitor is no longer pressing his neck, watching everything he sees and hears. Other students can tell him what they want to say now, or even hit him-no one will watch and no one will come to save him. He didn't have to be afraid of these things when he was wearing a monitor, and now he misses the monitor a little.
Stevenson has not left yet. Although he is not the biggest in the class, he is much stronger than Ender. He and Ender never bite the strings.
"Hello, third child."