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Hello, and welcome to the Slate Audio Book Club.

I'm David Hagelin, an editor at Slate, and I'm here with Megan O'Rourke. Hello, Megan. Hi, David. And Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily. Hey, David. Hey, Megan. And we're going to be talking about Ender's Game, the sci-fi classic, I think is maybe not too strong a word. First published in 1985. As always, on the audiobook club, we're going to be talking

about the plot in detail, so you should read the book first. And that's especially true,

I think, with this edition of the Slate Audio Book Club, because Ender's Game is a book heavy

on plot. There are even some twists near the end. So go read it.

Fortunately, I think given the book's popularity, a lot of our listeners probably already have read it.

I thought maybe we could start our conversation by finding out which of us had read it before.

This is a book that's at least partly targeted to young people.

I had had it recommended to me before a couple of times,

but had never read until a couple weeks ago. What about you guys? Megan? I think I read it

in high school. I can't quite remember when I read it, but it would have been not that long

after the book came out, probably in the early 90s. And it was really different reading it

this time, which I'm sure we'll get into. But I remember reading it just in like kind of one big gulp and really being horrified and very moved by the end, which didn't strike me as powerfully this time. Right. So you did like it as a teenager. I did like it as a teenager. And did you read other books sort of roughly in this category, other sci-fi books?

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