Superb." - Booklist

ENDER'S GAME

"Intense is the word for Ender's Game.  Aliens have attacked Earth twice and almost destroyed the human species.  To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses - and then training them in the arts of war....  The early training, not surprisingly, takes the form of 'games.'...  Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses, he wins all the games....  He is smart enough to know that time is running out.  But is he smart enough to save the planet?" - The New York Times

"Now, in this novel, Card fulfills his early promise... and more." - Ben Bova

"Ender's Game is a guaranteed crowd pleaser." - The Globe and Mail

WINNER OF BOTH HUGO
AND NEBULA WARDS!

"Less brash than Ender's Game.  SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD may be a much better book.  Don't miss it!" - Analog

"Told with compassion and keen insight, this powerful sequel to Ender's Game is highly recommended." - Library Journal

WINNER OF BOTH HUGO AND NEBULA AWARDS!

SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told of 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 mystery... and the truth

Card is a writer of compassion and his heart breaks for the individual men and women of good will who find themselves caught up and forced to participate in the race's homocidal crossfire." - Washington Post Book World

"The most powerful work Card has produced.  SPEAKER not only completes Ender's Game, it transcends it." - Fantasy Review

"A completely gripping story." - The Toronto Star

THE WAR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET LISITANIA WILL BE FOUGHT IN THE HEART OF A CHILD NAMED GLORIOUSLY BRIGHT

On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.

Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to tranform into adults.  The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second Xenocide seems inevitable.

Until the fleet vanishes.

The task of discovering how the ships were made to disappear falls to Gloriously Bright, the most brilliant analytical mind in a world of people bred to superintelligence.  There is little doubt that she can solve the puzzle: but will she choose life or death for the three races who live on Lusitania?

"Card has raised to a fine art the creation of suspense by means of ethocal dilemmas."  - Chicago Sun-Times

"XENOCIDE is certain to be one of the most sought-after new books of the year."  - Science Fiction Chronicles

"An undeniable heavyweight... This book combines Card's quirky style with his hard ethical dilemmas and sharply drawn portraits."  - New York Daily News

THE DESTRUCTION OF LUSITANIA DRAWS NEAR

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 again the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.

Jane, the evolved computer intelliegence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But It takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.

Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender’s children must save her if they are to save themselves.

"This is a worthy ending to that might be styled a saga of the ethical evolution of humanity, a concept seldom attempted before and never realized with teh seccess Card achieves here." - Booklist

A COMPANION VOLUME TO ENDER'S GAME, ONE THAT EXPANDS AND COMPLIMENTS THE FIRST, ENHANCING ITS POWER, ILLUMINATING ITS EVENTS AND ITS POWERFUL CONCLUSION.

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean - the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, his friend.

Bean's past was a battle just to survive on the streets of Rodderdam. He was a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else's. Bean's desperate struggle, and his remarkable success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender....

"Orson Scott Card made a strong case for being the best writer science fiction has to offer."
THE HOUSTON POST

"The publishing equivalent of a Star Wars blockbuster."
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

"[Ender's Shadow] is entertaining, fast-paced science fiction.  Dont be surprised if [it] wins the Hugo and Nebula like its acclaimed predecessor."
CNN.com

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 return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more.

But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heros; they are potential weapons that can bring power to the countries that control them. One by one, all of Ender's Dragon Army are kidnapped. Only Bean escapes; and he turns for help to Ender's brother Peter.

Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes. With Bean's help, he will eventually rule the world.

SHADOW OF THE HEGEMON

"Shadow of the Hegemon is an ideal book with which to start yuor science fiction year." - Rocky Mountain News.

"The novels of Orson Scott Car's Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games and psychology."
- USA Today

BESTSELLING AUTHOR ORSON SCOTT CARD
BRINGS TO LIFE A NEW CHAPTER IN
THE SAGA OF ENDER'S EARTH.

Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics - the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School.

But one person has a better idea. 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. And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth's young warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will reshape our future.

Here is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth.

"The novels of Orson Scott Card's Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games and psychology." - USA Today

Julian Delphiki grew up being called Bean, because he was so very small as a child. But within that tiny body was a mental giant. He was the smallest and youngest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggin's right hand.

Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He serves the Hegemon in the terrible wars that have followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. But within his genetically modified body is a ticking time bomb - Bean has never stopped growing; from the tiny, brilliant strategist, he has grown to be a giant in body as well as mind. Soon, he will not be able to survive in the gravity of his home world.

Soon, he will have to make a terrible choice.

"Card's latest installment in his Shadow subseries does a superlative job of dramatically portraying the maturing process of child into adult....  Now, as young adults in command of human armies pitted against each other in messy conflicts with no cleat solutions, Bean's old cohorts must help create a peaceful future for Earth after they're gone."  - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

AT THE BATTLE SCHOOL, there is only one purpose, only one curriculum: the strategy and tactics of war.  Humanity is at war with an alien rce and has been losing.  The students are drawn from all nations, all races, all religions, taken from their families at the age of six or seven.  There is no room for cultural differences, no room for religious observances, and certainly no room for Santa Claus.

But the youg warriors disagree.  When Dink Meeker leaves a Sinterklaas Day gift in another Dutch student's shoe, that quiet act of rebellion becomes the first shot in a war of wills that the staff of the Battle School never bargained for.

At the close of Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin knows that he cannot live on Earth.  He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: He is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony.

He is offered a choice of living as a pawn - or he can join the colony ships and go out to settle one of the new worlds won in the war.

Ender chooses the stars.  With his sister, Valentine, they take passage aboard a fast ship to Colony One.  The voyage will take two subjective years, while forty years pass on Earth and at their destination... and when Ender arrives, he will become governor of the new world.  Meanwhile, he is under command of the ship's captain: a man with ambitions, a man who thinks its unthinkable that he would be ruled by a twelve-year-old boy.  Admiral Morgan doesn't understand what Ender Wiggin is.  But he will.

"Threads from all the other books in the series flow through this narrative, which fills gaps, fleshes out familiar characterizations, and introduces well-limned new ones.  Ender's angst, combined with his handling of the intrigue swirling around him, ensures the depth for which the series is famous." - Booklist

At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Julian Delphiki - called "Bean" at the Battle School by Ender's jeesh - fled to the stars with three of his children: the three who shared his engineered genes that gave him both hyperintelligence and a short and cruel physical life.  The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, but to no avail.

In time, they are forgotten - a distant voice on the ansible speaking of events long past.  But they are about to make a discovery that will change the future of the human race.

"Card's storytelling and world-building are fantastic, and fans of the series will surely be pleased." - School Library Journal

From amazon.com:

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.

El Cavador has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big for the ship. There are claim-jumping corporate ships bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt. Worrying about a distant object that might or might not be an alien ship seems...not important.

They're wrong. It's the most important thing that has happened to the human race in a million years. The first Formic War is about to begin.

From amazon.com:

One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston is the story of the First Formic War. Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn't believe that until space stations and ships and colonies went up in sudden flame. And when that happened, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move fast enough to meet the threat.

From amazon.com:

Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's best-selling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the future, in the empty reaches between the stars. Then a young navigator on a distant mining ship saw something moving too fast, heading directly for our sun.

When the alien ship screamed through the solar system, it disrupted communications between the far-flung human mining ships and supply stations, and between them and Earth. So Earth and Luna were unaware that they had been invaded until the ship pulled into Earth orbit, and began landing terra-forming crews in China. Politics and pride slowed the response on Earth, and on Luna, corporate power struggles seemed more urgent than distant deaths. But there are a few men and women who see that if Earth doesn't wake up and pull together, the planet could be lost.