Book · 1985 · New York Times bestseller
Ender's Game
#133 of 16,760 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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- 21
- people
- 17
- podcasts
- 12
- episodes
- 17
- critical mentions
- 0
I think Ender's Game is fantastic.
Tim Ferriss · Modern Wisdom · May 2024 Listen at 1:34:47 What they say about it
- Mentions voice companion Jane“little voice in your earring”3
- Introduces children in battle school“children were put into a place called the battle school”2
The best things said about it
Well, one I read for fun every year is Ender's Game. I do reread it.
The leveling up that happens in the book Ender's Game I think is a good example of this where the guy goes through the entire kind of ground up and then ultimately he's commanding armies of spaceships and space.
David Friedberg All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Jan 2023 Ryan, the point you made about the Axios reports being a leading indicator brings to mind I'm reading Ender's Game with my son right now and there's a line there where he says sometimes the lies are more dependable than the more dependable than the truth.
Isn't the concept of Ender's Game is a bunch of video game playing kids are playing a video game that actually mimics a real world space battle.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Nov 2024 For those people who aren't familiar with Ender's Game that was a novel written by Orson Scott Card a number of decades ago where to fight an alien menace a number of children were put into a place called the battle school.
Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
17 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is a science fiction novel about a gifted boy recruited into an advanced military academy to prepare for an alien invasion through simulated space battles. On My First Million, Shaan Puri recommended the novel in passing as part of the genre, while Ben Wilson shared on David Senra that he rereads it every year for fun. Tim Ferriss described the book as fantastic on Modern Wisdom, and Tiago Forte similarly listed it among his top science fiction recommendations. The novel also inspired various discussions; Erik Torenberg brought it up on the a16z Podcast to illustrate the concept of an all-knowing audio companion, and Sebastian Mallaby discussed it on The Tim Ferriss Show after Demis Hassabis recommended it to him. Emily Jashinsky mentioned reading the book with her son on Breaking Points to highlight a line about reliable truths, and Jason Calacanis compared its remote-controlled battle concepts to modern robotic warfare on This Week in Startups.
Every mention
Tim Ferriss I think Ender Game is fantastic 2
Recommended
“I think Ender Game is fantastic”
Discussed
“One would be books and I want to ask this is from a profile in the New Yorker from 2010 and I remember this because I noticed it before I read it in the New Yorker at the time, which was for a period of time, I think the only book that was on your profile on Facebook was Ender's”
Ben Wilson Well, one I read for fun every year is Ender's Game. I do reread it. Have you read Ender's Game? 1
Recommended
“Well, one I read for fun every year is Ender's Game. I do reread it. Have you read Ender's Game?”
Shaan Puri Like have you read like Enders Game or Ready Player One or anything? No. That's a movie. I've seen that mov… 1
Recommended
“Like have you read like Enders Game or Ready Player One or anything? No. That's a movie. I've seen that movie, right? Yeah. No, but I would. They're really good.”
Tiago Forte Enders Game, Ready Player 1 is a newer one. Obviously Dune, obviously the Azimov series. Like, I didn't I d… 1
Recommended
“Enders Game, Ready Player 1 is a newer one. Obviously Dune, obviously the Azimov series. Like, I didn't I didn't want to believe that the the best ones were the mainstream ones.”
Lex Fridman I've had a similar experience reading some science fiction books connecting with the character Orson Scott… 2
Discussed
“I've had a similar experience reading some science fiction books connecting with the character Orson Scott Card and you know just amazing writing and Ender's Game and and speaker for the dead terrible title”
Discussed
“if you've read Orson Scott Card Ender's Game speaker for the dead you know it could just be like a little voice in your earring”
Ryan Hall in fact i think actually orson scott card you know who's the writer of a great book called anders game 2
Discussed
“in fact i think actually orson scott card you know who's the writer of a great book called anders game”
Discussed
“the books on my list are the foundation series by isaac asimov dune snow crash by neil stephenson and ender's game like you mentioned”
Chuck Nice the for those people who aren't familiar with ender's game that was a novel written by orson scott card a n… 1
Discussed
“the for those people who aren't familiar with ender's game that was a novel written by orson scott card a number of decades ago where to fight an alien menace a number of children were put into a place called the battle school”
David Friedberg the leveling up that happens in the book Enders game I think is a good example of this where the guy goes t… 1
Discussed
“the leveling up that happens in the book Enders game I think is a good example of this where the guy goes through the entire kind of ground up and then ultimately he's commanding armies of spaceships and space”
DJ Seo Some of the first set of books that I picked up are "Ender's Game," the whole saga by Orson Scott card, and… 1
Discussed
“Some of the first set of books that I picked up are "Ender's Game," the whole saga by Orson Scott card, and "Neuromancer" from William Gibson, and "Snow Crash" from Neal Stephenson.”
Emily Jashinsky Ryan, the point you made about the Axios reports being a leading indicator brings to mind I'm reading Ender… 1
Discussed
“Ryan, the point you made about the Axios reports being a leading indicator brings to mind I'm reading Ender's Game with my son right now and there's a line there where he says sometimes the lies are more dependable than the more dependable than the truth.”
Erik Torenberg I think people, you know, I mean, the vision of sort of Jane from Ender's Game was all about this sort of a… 1
Discussed
“I think people, you know, I mean, the vision of sort of Jane from Ender's Game was all about this sort of all-knowing audio-only companion.”
Hugh Howey I think it was uh hitchhiker's guy to the Galaxy and Enders Game I read them back to back 1
Discussed
“I think it was uh hitchhiker's guy to the Galaxy and Enders Game I read them back to back”
Jason Calacanis I hate to um give any spoilers here if you were going to read Ender Game but isn't the concept of Ender Gam… 1
Discussed
“I hate to um give any spoilers here if you were going to read Ender Game but isn't the concept of Ender Game is a bunch of video game playing kids uh are playing a video game that actually mimics a real world space battle”
John Williams and um I've just started on my e-reader um a book that my son really liked that passed me by back in the da… 1
Discussed
“and um I've just started on my e-reader um a book that my son really liked that passed me by back in the day which is Enders Game the oron Scott Scott Card”
Rosalind Picard If you've read Orson Scott Card Ender's Game speaker for the dead you know it could just be like a little v… 1
Discussed
“If you've read Orson Scott Card Ender's Game speaker for the dead you know it could just be like a little voice in your earring”
Sebastian Mallaby So right at the beginning of my interviewing of Demis we were having the second meeting which was a dinner… 1
Discussed
“So right at the beginning of my interviewing of Demis we were having the second meeting which was a dinner and he told me to read a couple of books before we had the dinner and one of them was Enders Game.”
Tim Pool it's actually ever you ever read Ender's Game or see the movie like the alien was a hive 1
Discussed
“it's actually ever you ever read Ender's Game or see the movie like the alien was a hive”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Discussed
“um the for those people who aren't familiar with ender's game that was a novel written by orson scott card a number of decades ago where to fight an alien menace a number of children were put into a place called the battle school”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“And they were scans from books. The reason why they appeared bent and warped is because it was an image scan from a book and we taught the AI how to read some Enders Enders game”
Passing
“there is a character that I keep coming back to in my own mind two and it's not a Jesus character but it's sort of like an ender game froto is character is tyroon so the son who is in the last few episodes of the podcast so tyroon and his father”
Passing
“this is way too simplistic of an analogy and you know not fair to mark on any Dimension but the whole construct here sort of reminds me of the book Enders Game”
Passing
“If you've read Ender's Game, brother does in Ind's Game where he's writing his little essays for the internet trying to like overthrow the government using them.”
Passing
“I found that on a website there was a post about the evolution of the or the history of the evolution of playing cards written by a game reviewer uh named Ender's Game and I thought it was gonna be Snoop Dogg”
Passing
“So we bonded over Ender's Game and all these great sci-fi books, but then the book we were talking about The Structure of Scientific Revolution”
Passing
“We bonded over 'Ender's Game' and various great sci-fi books, and we discussed 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.'”
Passing
“It's Ender Game. We've proven it mathematically. Yeah. Enders game, but entirely targeting poor people in the global south.”
Passing
“It's almost like um Enders game remember Ender's Game boiler alert”
Passing
“and then they get to live out the fantasy of staging a revolution like Ender's Game is that yeah yeah that's where they're really fighting aliens”
Passing
“and then they get to live out the fantasy of staging a revolution like Ender's Game”
Passing
“She said, it's "Ender's Game" meets "Risk" on Twitter.”
Passing
“My roommate Samantha said it perfectly. She said, it's "Ender's Game" meets "Risk" on Twitter.”
Ad read
“I know they have some of my that Enders Game”