Ender's Game series

The Ender's Game series (sometimes called Ender series or Enderverse) is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card. The series started with the novelette "Ender's Game", which was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. It currently consists of nine novels, ten short stories, and two books yet to be published. The first two novels in the series, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and were among the most influential science fiction novels of the 1980s. The series is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, an insect-like race known colloquially as "Buggers" but more formally as "Formics." The central character, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, is one of the child soldiers trained at Battle School (and eventually Command School) to be the future leaders of the protection of Earth. The year is never specified, although the ages of the Wiggin's children are specified to change throughout... full article at wikipedia