Welcome to the latest edition of Looks from Books, which aims to prove that you can look smart, while still being book-smart, too. Fashion inspiration can be found between the pages of your favorite stories, on well-designed book covers, and in your favorite characters… if you read closely enough.

It’s been one of the most hyped movie releases this fall, and not just because it’s an adaptation of one of the most enduring works of science fiction in history. In fact, CF readers had been requesting a review of this book even before the movie had a release date! Read on to find out why everyone’s talking about Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game:

Ender’s Game book cover via Amazon

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Ender’s Game is a classic work of science fiction, first published in 1985 by Orson Scott Card.

The story follows a young boy named Andrew (commonly called Ender) Wiggin, who has been monitored and selected by the government to be, essentially, the savior of mankind by becoming the commander who will finally beat the Buggers, humankind’s intergalactic enemy. Alienated by his teachers in Battle School and ostracized from the company of his peers, all Ender can do to win the esteem of his fellow students is to beat them… every single time.

The book won both the Hugo and Nebula awards the year it was released, and spawned several novels continuing in the series. The first of these sequels, Speaker for the Dead, also won the Hugo and Nebula awards.

A Fashionable Literacy

Official Promotional Material via IMDB

TheEnder’s Game movie adaptation debuted on November 1st, but the hype for the movie itself is of little notice in comparison to the media firestorm response to the book’s author, Orson Scott Card, and his status as a vocal opponent to gay rights. Card was essentially stricken from any means of promotion for the movie – be they television interviews or even the Comic Con panel – in an attempt to distance the adaptation of his work from association with his own inflammatory viewpoints.