Author: Orson Scott Card

The Last Shadow by Orson Scott Card

The Last Shadow by Orson Scott Card

As the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe—the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it is allowed to escape from Lusitania. One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out every world in the Starways Congress, killing billions. Is the only […]

November 16, 2021 / 1 Comment
Duplex by Orson Scott Card

Duplex by Orson Scott Card

Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad building walls to turn their big old house into a duplex. The family that moves into the other side includes Bizzy Horvat, the pretty girl he has a crush on at school. Bizzy claims her mother is a witch with the power to curse people with clumsiness or, in Bizzy’s case, astonishing beauty. When a bee gets […]

September 7, 2021 / 0 Comments
Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card

Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card

“Are you really a thief?” That’s the question that has haunted fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But he’s not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpower—a micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, especially when you return them to their owners and everyone thinks you must have stolen them in the first place? If […]

September 10, 2019 / 0 Comments
The Hive by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

The Hive by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

The history of the Formic Wars—the alien invasions of Earth’s Solar System. A coalition of Earth’s nations barely fought off the Formics’ first scout ship. Now it’s clear that there’s a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth’s warring nations and corporations put aside their differences and mount an effective defense? Prequel series […]

June 11, 2019 / 0 Comments
A Town Divided by Christmas by Orson Scott Card

A Town Divided by Christmas by Orson Scott Card

It began with a quarrel over which newborn should be the baby Jesus in the town’s Christmas pageant. Decades later, two scientists arrive to study small-town genetic patterns, only to run up against the invisible walls that split the leading citizens into two congregations that can only be joined by love and forgiveness. And maybe a little deception, because there might be some things that […]

November 7, 2018 / 0 Comments
Children of the Fleet by Orson Scott Card

Children of the Fleet by Orson Scott Card

Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the International Fleet became the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station, and still recruits very smart kids to train as leaders of colony ships, […]

October 21, 2017 / 0 Comments
The Swarm by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

The Swarm by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic’s initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined […]

August 12, 2016 / 0 Comments
Mithermages: Gatefather by Orson Scott Card

Mithermages: Gatefather by Orson Scott Card

Danny North is the first Gate Mage to be born on Earth in nearly 2000 years, or at least the first to survive to claim his power. Families of Westil in exile on Earth have had a treaty that required the death of any suspected Gate Mage. The wars between the Families had been terrible, until at last they realized it was their own survival […]

October 21, 2015 / 0 Comments
Mithermages: The Gate Thief by Orson Scott Card

Mithermages: The Gate Thief by Orson Scott Card

Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can’t control him…and they can’t control him. He is far too powerful. And on Westil, Wad is now nearly powerless—he lost everything to Danny in their struggle. Even if […]

March 19, 2013 / 1 Comment
Mithermages: The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card

Mithermages: The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card

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 things that commoners called fairies, ghosts, golems, trolls, werewolves, and other such miracles that were the heritage of the North family, Danny worried that he would never show a talent, never form an outself. He grew up in […]

January 4, 2011 / 0 Comments