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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 War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the... (more)

Ender's Shadow: Book 1

Ender's Shadow

A Parallel Novel to Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew. With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender's Game , a book that expands and compliments the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion. The human race is at War with the "Buggers", an... (more)

The Women of Genesis: Book 3

Rachel and Leah

by Orson Scott Card

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, the oldest daughter of Laban, whose "tender eyes" prevent her from fully participating in the daily work of her nomadic family, and Rachel, the spoiled younger daughter, the petted and privileged beauty of the family -- or so it seems to Leah. There is also... (more)

Homecoming Saga: Book 1

The Memory of Earth

by Orson Scott Card

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 this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves. The Oversoul has done its job well. There is no war on Harmony. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There is no technology that could lead to weapons of war.... (more)

The Women of Genesis: Book 1

Sarah

by Orson Scott Card

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 desert, tired and thirsty. But as the dirt of travel was washed from his body, the sight of him filled her heart. And when Abram promises Sarai to return in ten years to take her for his wife, her fate was sealed. Abram kept his promise, and Sarai kept hers... (more)

Homecoming Saga: Book 2

The Call of Earth

by Orson Scott Card

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 technology. now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plain. Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons are not strong enough to stop a army. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh... (more)

Ender Quartet: Book 1

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

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 geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother, Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister, Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for... (more)

The Space Boy

by Orson Scott Card

Is it space that children dream of, or merely visiting other worlds? Todd had always set his heart on being an astronaut, but when he meets an alien and travels to another world, he doesn't use a spaceship, he just hangs out in his own back yard. In Space Boy, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, takes readers into a strange and wonderful future, where people from another world regularly visit Earth -... (more)

Ender: Book 2

A War of Gifts

by Orson Scott Card

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 forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older students, doesn't see it that way. He... (more)

Stonefather

by Orson Scott Card

A fantasy novella by the best-selling author of Ender's Game.

First Meetings: Three Stories from the Enderverse

First Meetings: Three Stories from the Enderverse

by Orson Scott Card

In July 1977, "Ender's Game" appeared as a novelette in Analog magazine. The science fiction community immediately embraced it, nominating it for a Hugo award, and when Orson Scott Card turned it into a novel in 1985, it won both the Hugo and Nebula Award. Now, twenty-five years later, First Meetings celebrates "Ender's Game" by reprinting that original story along with two others, one of which has never... (more)

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Speaker for the Dead

by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Shadow

A Parallel Novel to Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Rachel and Leah

by Orson Scott Card

The Memory of Earth

by Orson Scott Card

Sarah

by Orson Scott Card

The Call of Earth

by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

The Space Boy

by Orson Scott Card

A War of Gifts

by Orson Scott Card

Stonefather

by Orson Scott Card

First Meetings: Three Stories from the Enderverse

by Orson Scott Card