Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; his most recent novel, The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
 
Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.


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Book Trailer: Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador’s telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it’s hard to know what to make of it. It’s massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light. But the ship has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big. There are claim-jumping corpo

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Interview with Orson Scott Card

Listen to author Orson Scott Card discuss Ender, Battle School, and more!

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Orson Scott Card on Libraries

Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card discusses his love for libraries.

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Orson Scott Card Interview

Listen to author Orson Scott Card discuss Ender, Battle School, and more! This video is also included on the audiobook version of Card's Shadows in Flight, a new Enderverse novel.

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Orson Scott Card discusses his book, Empire

The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone.

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Orson Scott Card discusses Ender Sequel: Ender in Exile

After twenty-three years, this is the first true, direct sequel to Ender's Game featuring Ender as a teenager.

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The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card

A book trailer for The Lost Gate, the first book in the Mither Mages series by Orson Scott Card.

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Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's classic science fiction novel Ender's Game, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. This audiobook is narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison and cast.

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Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Ender's Shadow, companion novel to the sci-fi classic Ender's Game and the book that launched the bestselling Ender's Shadow series—available for the first time as an unabridged CD or digital audiobook.

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The Crystal City by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's fantasy novel The Crystal City, read by Stefan Rudnicki, M.E. Willis and full cast. From the end of the 18th century, Americans travelled west to find new homes and new lands. They brought with them the magics of plain people. It is from these roots of the American dream that award-winning writer Orson Scott Card has crafted what the Charlotte Observer called "a uniquely American fantasy."

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A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel A War of Gifts. Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays.

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Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Children of the Mind, book 4 in the Ender Quintet, narrated by Gabrielle De Cuir, John Rubinstein and cast. The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos, a large colony of humans, and the Hive Queen, who was brought there by Ender Wiggin. But now, once again, the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.

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Hidden Empire by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Hidden Empire, read by the author, Stefan Rudnicki and Rusty Humphries. In this sequel to Card's bestselling novel Empire, Averell Torrent has become President of the United States, with enormous political and popular support and, if people only realized it, a tight grip on the reins of both political parties. He has launched America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance.

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Empire by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Empire, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and the author. The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside.

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Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Ender in Exile, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and cast. Card returns to his best-selling sci-fi series with this new Ender novel. At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin -- called Ender by everyone -- is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth.

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Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card--audiobook excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Shadow Puppets. In this sequel to the New York Times Bestselling Ender's Shadow and Ender's Game, Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older, more ruthless, brother, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose.

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Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Speaker for the Dead, the thrilling sequel to Ender's Game and winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. This full cast unabridged recording includes an original postscript written and recorded by the author.

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's classic science fiction novel Ender's Game, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. This audiobook is narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison and cast.

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Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Ender's Shadow, companion novel to the sci-fi classic Ender's Game and the book that launched the bestselling Ender's Shadow series—available for the first time as an unabridged CD or digital audiobook.

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Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Shadow of the Giant. This book, the fourth in Card's Shadow Series, continues the story of Bean, one of the most fascinating characters from Card's sci-fi classic, Ender's Game. Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.

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Earth Afire
The First Formic War
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Tor Books

One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. This is the story of the First Formic War. Victor Delgado beat the...


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Earth Unaware
The First Formic War
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Tor Science Fiction


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The Gate Thief
Mither Mages
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

“Card sets his saga in a present where our legends about wizardry and magic are actually remembered truths…. Promises much.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer on The...


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Shadows in Flight
The Shadow Series
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

The sequel to Orson Scott Card's New York Times bestselling Shadow of the Giant.


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The Authorized Ender Companion

Orson Scott Card and Jake Black
Tor Books

The Authorized Ender Companion is the only book that describes and indexes the people, places, events and technology of the Ender Universe created by Orson...


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The Lost Gate
Mither Mages
Orson Scott Card
Tor Fantasy

Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different, and that he was different from them. While his cousins were learning how to create the...


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Laddertop, Volume 1

Written by Orson Scott Card and Emily Janice Card Art by Honoel A. Ibardolaza
Tor/Seven Seas

An original science fiction manga by the bestselling author of Ender’s Game and his daughter Twenty-five years ago, the alien Givers came to Earth. They...


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Hidden Empire
Empire
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card returns to the near-future world created for Empire where the international power of the United States has grown too fast,...


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Cruel Miracles
Maps in a Mirror
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

A collection of science fiction tales by the author of Lost Boys presents the Hugo Award-winning "Eye for Eye," as well as an autobiography by the author. ...


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Keeper of Dreams

Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

This huge collection of short stories by one of science fiction’s most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. The volume contains...


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Ender in Exile
The Ender Quintet
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender's Game. In...


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A War of Gifts
Ender
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is...


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The Ghost Quartet

Edited by Marvin Kaye, with stories by Orson Scott Card, Marvin Kaye, Tanith Lee and Brian Lumley
Tor Books

Brian Lumley, a Grand Master of Horror and author of the popular Necroscope® series, opens the collection with the tense “A Place of Waiting.” The moors of...


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The Ender's Shadow Series Box Set
The Shadow Series
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

This boxed set contains Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant.   Ender's Shadow   Welcome to Battle School....


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The Ender Quartet Box Set
The Ender Quintet
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

This boxed set contains Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind.    Ender's Game Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In...


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Zanna's Gift

Orson Scott Card
Forge Books

When the Pullman family lost their eldest son to an unexpected illness just before Christmas, it was devastating to all of them, but especially to...


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Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show

Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing submissions from...


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Invasive Procedures

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Tor Science Fiction

George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane – he has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to...


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Keeper of Dreams, Volume 3

Orson Scott Card
Macmillan Audio

A volume of short stories from one of science fiction’s most beloved and popular writers.


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Keeper of Dreams, Volume 2

Orson Scott Card
Macmillan Audio

A volume of short stories from one of science fiction’s most beloved and popular writers.


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Keeper of Dreams, Volume 1

Orson Scott Card
Macmillan Audio

A volume of short stories from one of science fiction’s most beloved and popular writers.


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Empire
Empire
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed...


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Ender's Game Gift Edition
The Ender Quintet
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards For the perfect holiday gift for the reader on your list, pick up this special gift edition of one of the most beloved...


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Shadow of the Giant
The Shadow Series
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could...


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Treason

Orson Scott Card
Orb Books

Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad" -- radical regenerative. A freak among...


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Rachel & Leah
Women of Genesis
Orson Scott Card
Forge Books

In this third volume of his Women of Genesis series, Orson Scott Card paints a vivid picture of the intertwined lives of four celebrated women. We meet Leah,...


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Orson Scott Card/David Lubar Starscape Boxed Set

Orson Scott Card and David Lubar
Starscape

Contains 4 classic Starscape titles: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense...


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The Dragon Quintet

Orson Scott Card, Mercedes Lackey, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Moon, Michael Swanwick; Edited by Marvin Kaye
Tor Books

Brand-new contributions to the hoard of dragon lore by five top fantasy authors.


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The Crystal City
Alvin Maker
Orson Scott Card
Tor Fantasy

Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where...


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First Meetings
Ender
Orson Scott Card; Read by Gabrielle De Cuir, Amanda Karr and Stefan Rudnicki
Macmillan Audio

Welcome to the Enderverse. When "Ender's Game" was first published as a novella twenty-five years ago few would have predicted that it would become one of...


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First Meetings
Ender
Orson Scott Card
Tor Teen

Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game--winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe...


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Maps in a Mirror
Maps in a Mirror
Orson Scott Card
Orb Books

Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this...


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Hart's Hope

Orson Scott Card
Orb Books

A dark and powerful fantasy from the bestselling author of Ender’s Shadow. Enter the city of Hart’s Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent,...


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Shadow Puppets
The Shadow Series
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

A Sequel to The New York Times Bestselling Enders's Shadow Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's...


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Wyrms

Orson Scott Card
Orb Books

A New York Times Best Book of the Year New York Times bestselling author of Ender’s Shadow The sphere is alien in origin, but has been controlled by man...


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Songmaster

Orson Scott Card
Orb Books

An SF classic from the author of Ender's Game. Kidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation at the mystical retreat...


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Rebekah
Women of Genesis
Orson Scott Card
Forge Books

Born into a time and place where a woman speaks her mind at her peril, and reared as a motherless child by a doting father, Rebekah grew up to be a stunning,...


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Ender's Game Boxed Set
The Ender Quintet
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

Boxed Set contains Mass Market Editions of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon Ender's Game Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In...


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The Shadow Series
Orson Scott Card
Starscape

Life on the streets is tough. But if Bean has learned anything, it’s how to survive. Not with his fists. Bean is way too small to fight. But with his brain....


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Ender's Game
The Ender Quintet
Orson Scott Card
Starscape

The Earth is under attack and the survival of the human species depends on a military genius who can defeat the alien “buggers.” Recruited for military...


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Shadow of the Hegemon
The Shadow Series
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to...


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Beyond Ender Boxed Set
The Ender Quintet
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

Beyond Enders Boxed Mass Market Set Contains: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind Speaker for the Dead: In the aftermath of his...


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Sarah
Women of Genesis
Orson Scott Card
Forge Books

Sarai was a child of ten years, wise for her age but not yet a woman, when she first met Abram. He appeared before her in her father's house, filthy from the...


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The Folk of the Fringe

Orson Scott Card
Orb Books

Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the...


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Saints

Orson Scott Card
Forge Books

When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leave their Manchester home in the middle of the night, she basked when he would be back. "Soon," he replied....


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Lovelock
Mayflower Trilogy
Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H. Kidd
Tor Books

Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered to be the perfect servant--intelligent, agile, pliant, and devoted to his owner. He is a Witness--privileged to spend...


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Ender's Shadow
The Shadow Series
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

The novel that launched the bestselling Ender’s Shadow series—available for the first time on unabridged cd The human race is at War with the...


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Future On Ice
Future on Fire
Edited by Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

A widely varied, immensely enjoyable, and historically important anthology, Future on Ice is a showcase for the hottest stories by the coolest SF writers of...


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Heartfire
Alvin Maker
Orson Scott Card
Tor Fantasy

Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. She can follow the paths of each person's future, and know each person's most intimate...


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Children of the Mind
The Ender Quintet
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against...


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Pastwatch
Pastwatch
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus...


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Alvin Journeyman
Alvin Maker
Orson Scott Card
Tor Fantasy

Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century. Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church....


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Earthborn
Homecoming Saga
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the...


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Earthfall
Homecoming Saga
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their...


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The Ships of Earth
Homecoming Saga
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden...


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Speaker for the Dead
The Ender Quintet
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger...


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Ender's Game
The Ender Quintet
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child...


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The Call of Earth
Homecoming Saga
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden...


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Seventh Son
Alvin Maker
Orson Scott Card
Tor Fantasy

From the author of Ender’s Game, an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born into an alternative frontier America...


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Monkey Sonatas
Maps in a Mirror
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

A collection of science fiction and fantasy tales by the acclaimed author offers readers ten excursions into the realm of the fantastic and the mythic...


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The Memory of Earth
Homecoming Saga
Orson Scott Card
Tor Science Fiction

High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet--to protect...


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The Worthing Saga

Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they...


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Flux
Maps in a Mirror
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

Seven tales of possible fates for the human race by one of science fiction's most revered authors portrays the inner struggles of characters exploring their...


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Xenocide
The Ender Quintet
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans...


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Red Prophet
Alvin Maker
Orson Scott Card
Tor Fantasy

Come here to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious...


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The Changed Man
Maps in a Mirror
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

Eleven chilling tales, including the author's introductions and afterword comments, provoke the dreaded dark side of the reader's imagination.


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Future On Fire
Future on Fire
Edited by Orson Scott Card
Tor Books

A provocative collection of short fiction, edited by one of science fiction's best-known names. Of particular interest are several stories from the cyberpunk...


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Prentice Alvin
Alvin Maker
Orson Scott Card
Tor Fantasy

The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with...


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