Awesome book. It's on the CNO's reading list, too. However, I don't see the political forums Peter and Valentine used resembling GLP much. Also, "Ender's Game" was published as a short story in 1977. That version was only one Battle Room sequence. The novel Ender's Game, with Peter and Valentine, was published in 1985. The nets described resemble Usenet more than the internet we have now.