Orson Scott Card

The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the development of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth--they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the...

Alvin Smith arrives at Hatrack River to take up his apprenticeship to become a blacksmith with the works of the Unmaker close at hand.

Book 1 of The Tales of Alvin Maker. Young Alvin was born the seventh son of a seventh son. By his birthright, he possesses magical powers and is destined to become something great, perhaps even a Maker. Indeed, Alvin is special. But the boy remains vulnerable to dark forces who reach out to destroy him and are willing to do anything to keep him from growing up. Carefully weaving the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled a continent-...

Alvin battles the evil Unmaker in an alternate frontier America where magic and charms actually work.

Journeying across the desert when the City of Basilica falls, Wetchik, Nafai, and their families seek the hidden Harmony spaceport, finding their greatest hardship in the anger of their own people who are rebelling against a forced exile.

Serving a usurper who has destroyed her family and rules their space-dwelling sphere home, Patience journeys to the heart of her world in order to reclaim her crown, a quest that may spell salvation or destruction for the cosmos.

A dark and powerful fantasy from Orson Scott Card, the bestselling author of Ender's Shadow. Enter the city of Hart's Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his people. Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now Queen by her father's...

Now that Bean and three of his children have fled to the stars they become cut off from Earth's scientists and are forgotten. But they are about to discover a derelict Formic colony ship on which they find the life support that is failing on their own ship, room to grow, and a mysterious, deadly disease that killed the ship's colony and may now kill them.

When he attracts the attention of a group of micropotents--people with micropowers--while coming to the rescue of a girl he is crushing on, Ryan must protect her and her mother from witch hunters from their native country.

This new collection of Card's short fiction contains 22 stories, including two from the Alvin Maker Universe, with new introductions and commentary on his life and work, all written by Card himself.