Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. He is the first and only person to win both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for both his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003).

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2013

The Gate Thief

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

3.8(14,532)

A high school student with the stolen power of thirteen centuries of gatemages must survive assassination attempts and a broken magical realm to understand why the Great Gates were sealed and confront the ancient forces behind their closure.

2010

Pathfinder

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

4.0(21,690)

A young man with the rare gift to trace and change the past must navigate a dangerous future where he is both a foretold king and a hunted target, forcing him to uncover his own hidden origins before time itself destroys him.

2008

Ender in Exile

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

3.9(44,894)

Haunted by his past as humanity's savior, Ender Wiggin embarks on an interstellar quest for redemption, only to find himself entangled in new political intrigue and the target of a vengeful colonist determined to destroy his hard-won peace.

2006

Empire

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

4.1(4,947)

In a fractured America torn apart by a brutal civil war, a brilliant strategist must unite a nation on the brink of annihilation, forcing citizens to choose sides in a conflict that threatens to consume their world.

2002

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

4.3(1,131,303)

Earth is at war with aliens. A child genius, Ender Wiggin, enters a harsh military program where his strategy skills become humanity's last hope.

2001

Shadow of the Hegemon

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

4.0(71,058)

With the alien threat vanquished, Ender's child-hero strategists become pawns in a new global power struggle, forcing the brilliant but diminutive Bean to ally with Ender's manipulative brother, Peter, to save them and, inadvertently, orchestrate Peter's rise to world domination.

2000

Shadow of the Giant

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

4.0(48,497)

As Earth faces alien annihilation, the brilliant but genetically doomed Bean, once a street urchin who civilized gangs, must now outwit the extraterrestrial threat and his own genetic destiny.

1999

Ender's Shadow

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

4.3(153,731)

From the brutal streets of a dystopian Earth to the strategic battlegrounds of outer space, a small but brilliant boy named Bean must outwit ruthless gangs and alien invaders alike, all while navigating his complex rivalry with Ender Wiggin, to save humanity.

1991

Xenocide

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

3.8(140,957)

As a genocidal fleet heads toward Lusitania, the fate of three intelligent species and a deadly virus rests on a child with the power to manipulate reality.

1986

Speaker for the Dead

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

4.1(225,112)

Haunted by his past as the 'Xenocide,' Ender Wiggin, now the Speaker for the Dead, must unravel the deadly mysteries of a new alien race to prevent humanity from repeating its genocidal history.

1979

Treason

by Orson Scott Card

Fiction

Fantasy

4.4(1,075)

A young man with a unique biological gift must navigate a treacherous political landscape and a conspiracy that threatens his planet's very survival, all while battling a brutal offworld regime for the iron that represents freedom.