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Overlook Connection Press,US Storyteller - Orson Scott Card's Official Bibliography and International Readers Guide - Library Casebound Hard Cover
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Orbit Earthborn (Homecoming S.)
SF takes old myths and genetically modified them for today's world, from George Lucas doing knight-saves-fair-lady in space to Star Trek's Wagon Train to the Stars. Orson Scott Card's five-volume <I>Homecoming</I> series goes one step further, reshaping some of the most potent myths of all. In effect, he rewrites the Bible as SF, telling an Old Testament story of interstellar Exodus. The planet Harmony was colonised by humans 40 million years ago. Now the orbiting computer, Oversoul, that has governed the planet for all that time, is starting to fail. It selects some humans to make the long trip back to Earth, to contact the even more powerful Keeper and find out how to proceed. By the time humans return to the world, they find that two indigenous races that evolved to intelligence over the 40 million years they were away, the mole-like Earth People, or diggers, and the airborn Sky People, or angels. <I>Earthborn</I> does work, just about, as a standalone story; but it works best as the conclusion to Card's five-book epic of a people freed from bondage like the Israelites from Egypt and the vicissitudes they suffer.<p> Card's Mormon beliefs are more strongly represented in this book than in some of his others. <I>Earthborn</I> is essentially a story about Free Will, the reasons why God (Card's Keeper) grants it and the fact that some people will use it to do evil things. This sounds dry, and Card's pious conclusion is a little overplayed, but Card has a reputation in SF for a good reason. He builds all his novels around directly engaging characters and clear-cut moral dilemmas. In this novel it is the most basic dilemma of all: will the attractive but flawed central character Akma choose truth or falsehood, good or evil? If you've read the preceding four <I>Homecoming</I> books then this one is must-buy; and even if this is your first Card novel you'll see why he is one of the world's most highly regarded SF authors. This book may not be at the level of <I>Ender's Game</I> or <I>Xenocide</I>--C ard's masterpieces--but it does build a powerful and very human momentum. <I>--Adam Roberts, author of</I> <I>Salt</I>
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Saint Martin's Press Rebekah (Women of Genesis S.)
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HarperCollins Treasure Box
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Orbit The Memory of Earth (Homecoming S.)
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Orbit First Meetings: In the Enderverse
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Orbit The Ships of Earth (Homecoming S.)
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Orbit Alvin Journeyman (Tales of Alvin Maker)
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Orbit Shadow Puppets (Shadow Saga S.)
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Orbit Seventh Son (The Tales of Alvin Maker)
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Orbit Red Prophet (The Tales of Alvin Maker)
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Orbit Ender's Shadow (Shadow Saga S.)
<I>Ender's Shadow</I> is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning book <I>Ender's Game</I>. By parallel Card means that <I>Shadow</I> begins and ends at roughly the same time as <I>Game</I>, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil. <p> Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender's lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of <I>Shadow</I>, and we pick up his story when he is just a two-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on Earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know. <p> Although it may seem like <I>Shadow</I> is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous <I>Ender's Game</I>, that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It's clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a co-writer but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of <I>Ender's Game</I> hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with, <I>Shadow</I> manages to capitalise on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end it seems a shame that <I>Shadow</I>, like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future. <I>--Craig E. Engler, Amazon.com</I>
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Orbit Shadow of the Giant (Shadow Saga S.)
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Orbit Heartfire (The Tales of Alvin Maker)
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Orbit Shadow of the Giant (Shadow Saga S.)
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Orbit Earthfall (Homecoming S.)
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Writer's Digest Books How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Orbit Shadow Puppets (Shadow Saga S.)
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Orbit Children of the Mind (The Ender Saga)
Orson Scott Card's SF career began with <I>Ender's Game</I>, a 1977 story expanded into an acclaimed 1985 novel. Unwittingly responsible for xenocide--destruction of an alien species--while still a boy, Ender expiates his guilt on another world in <I>Speaker for the Dead</I>. This confronts humanity with a deadly alien-built virus whose elimination seems to demand another xenocide. The tense continuing story takes an extraordinary leap into magical metaphysics at the climax of <I>Xenocide</I>, of which <I>Children of the Mind</I> is in effect the second half. Though that virus is now defeated, this isn't believed: the planet-eating doomsday weapon still approaches. Ender's AI friend Jane, who inhabits the galactic net and is the only agency that can move spacecraft faster than light, is being killed by dismantling the net. Ender himself is fading, passing responsibility to strange young avatars of his dead brother and aging sister created from his memories in <I>Xenocide</I>. Even in the shadow of death there are grippingly argued political, philosophical and moral debates--plus bitter family quarrels. A master storyteller with a knack for showing painful human relationships, Card achieves almost unbearable suspense before resolving his complex tangle and finishing Ender's 3000-year story with a touching elegy. One dangling plot line suggests that Card may return again to this universe. Solid, high-quality SF despite some implausible science. --<I>David Langford</I>
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ATOM Ender's Game (The Ender Saga)
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Marvel Comics Ultimate Iron Man: Premiere v. 1
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Tor,U.S. Treason
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Orbit Xenocide (The Ender Saga)
<I>Xenocide</I> is Card's best-selling sequel to the Hugo Award-winning <I>Ender's Game</I> and <I>Speaker for the Dead.</I>
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Saint Martin's Press Songmaster
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Tor Books Lovelock (Mayflower Trilogy (Paperback))
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SOS Free Stock The Crystal City (Tales of Alvin Maker (Hardcover))
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Del Rey Books Magic Street
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Del Rey Books Magic Street
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Del Rey Enchantment
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Orb Books Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
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Orb Books Wyrms
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Forge Rachel and Leah (Women of Genesis S.)
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Marvel Comics Ultimate Iron Man Volume 1 Premiere HC: Vol. 1,
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Chronicle Books Robota: Reign of Machines Story and Art
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Tor Books The Crystal City (Tales of Alvin Maker (Paperback))
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Tor Books Pastwatch
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Shadow Mountain Stone Tables
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Orbit Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow Saga S.)
Orson Scott Card keeps returning to his first published story Ender's Game (1977). He expanded it into the acclaimed 1985 novel <I>Ender's Game</I>, winning Hugo and Nebula awards and spawning several sequels. More recently, <I>Ender's Shadow</I> reworked the original tale of precocious boy soldier Ender saving the world from alien hordes at terrible personal cost, as told from the different, colder viewpoint of his even younger lieutenant Bean. <p> Now Ender has been sent to the stars as too dangerously charismatic a military leader to keep on Earth. Without the common alien threat, our global alliance is disintegrating. Ender's top strategists like Bean are in demand by would-be conquering countries. Kidnappings rapidly follow. <p> Four strange, tortured teenagers dominate the book. Ender's brilliant but twisted brother Peter is already manipulating international politics as respected political pundit Locke, hoping to become world ruler or Hegemon. He needs the genetically enhanced abilities of Bean, who's mainly concerned with the fate of kidnapped Petra--the only girl to reach the top rank at Ender's Battle School. Meanwhile boy serial killer Achille, the villain of <I>Ender's Shadow</I>, has sold his strategic talents to more than one nation, and has scores to settle ... <p> <I>Shadow of the Hegemon</I> lacks glittering SF hardware and seems almost old-fashioned after the planet-busting supertechnology of <I>Ender's Game</I>. What makes it compulsive reading is Card's uncannily sure handling of character, especially flawed characters and their painful moral choices. Minor figures like Ender's parents acquire new depth, and we care when people die. Recommended--but do read the books in sequence. A third Shadow novel follows. --<I>David Langford</I>
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Constable and Robinson How to Write a Million: The Complete Guide to Becoming a Succesful Author
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Orbit Ender's Game (The Ender Saga)
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Orbit Ender's Shadow (Shadow Saga S.)
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Orbit Speaker for the Dead (The Ender Saga)
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Subterranean Press An Open Book
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Ediciones B El Juego de Ender
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