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Yes, but the author wrote a sequel in which the hero undoes his xenocide by
developing empathy for the aliens and reviving the almost lost race!

Mark

At 07:35 27/01/2005 -0800, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
Mmm,

"... alien race)." Training not only military, but political
indoctrination.

bc

Mark Sylvester wrote:

"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card developed from an Analog short story
published in 1977, and has a similar theme (only the kids play games to
learn to destroy an alien race).

Mark

At 13:49 26/01/2005 -0500, Rick Tarara wrote:


Yes and one of the first films where all of the special effect were
computer
generated.

So BC--computer games are an alien conspiracy? Let's chalk up another one!
;-)

Rick

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Bernard wrote:



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[snip]



p.s. A sci-fi. film's, a few decades ago, plot was an alien power


placed


games in small towns. The winners were abducted to pilot their
fighters. This was at a time the military had begun using games as
training.


I believe the film was "The Last Starfighter" -

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