A dramatization written by Orson Scott Card, based on his bestselling novel and the upcoming theatrical film release. 70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.
Probably my favorite version of Ender’s Game There are a lot of versions of Ender’s Game: the original book, the comic book, the forthcoming movie, and this full-cast audioplay.I love the idea of turning books into fully voiced audioplays, and I hope OSC and other authors utilize the rising popularity of Audible and audio books in general to create more of these. I feel like it brings the story to life in ways that books don’t at a cost far below making a movie. It shares some of the advantages and disadvantages of movies as…
An Audio Play that keeps Imagination Alive First, I’m not going to focus on the content of Ender’s Game Alive other than to say it captures the essence of the book. So, if you don’t know the book, read review/synopsis for it.The folks at Skyboat Media have breathed new life into an old format: the radio play. Ender’s Game author, Orson Scott Card, has rewritten the novel from ground up as screenplay. I’ve been pretty excited about this new art form (or, at least a form pushed to new levels) ever since I became aware of the…
Good as a new format, but not quite as good as the unabridged audiobook I am a HUGE Ender’s Game fan. I have read the book probably a dozen times in paperback, kindle and audiobook. So initially I was going to skip this because I thought it was just going to be a full cast version of the audiobook. But I got sucked in because Card wrote it as a radio drama with some different text. There is no narrator, so the only action is in dialogue, which makes for a few odd places because someone has to describe the action in dialogue form and it doesn’t quite fit. (This is…