Orson Scott Card
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 2
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
Teenagers are at the heart of the story featuring a sentient computer whose plans involve a return to Earth.
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 3
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
The planet Harmony is governed by a computer whose job is to ensure humans are kept at a low technological level so they don't repeat the mess they caused on Earth. But the computer is breaking down and asks the humans to repair it. For one lot of humans this is an opportunity for freedom.
44) Magic street
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Teenager Mack Street apparently suffers from strange spells when he simply freezes and stares off into space, but what those around him do not realize is that Mack possesses the ability to see into other people's dreams.
45) Empire
Author
Series
Empire novels (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Formats
Description
The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Formats
Description
Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the cramped mining ship El Cavador spots a rapidly approaching object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.
47) Heartfire
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 5
Pub. Date
c1999, c1998
Description
While Alvin Maker travels in New England, his new wife Peggy Guester attempts to use her powers to prevent bloodshed by traveling to the court of King Arthur Stuart in the British Crown Colonies, where she must confront Alvin's brother Calvin.
48) Visitors
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 3
Formats
Description
"Rigg's journey comes to an epic and explosive conclusion as everything that has been building up finally comes to pass, and Rigg is forced to put his powers to the test in order to save his world and end the war once and for all"--
49) Songmaster
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Description
Kidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation but surrounded by music, where he develops a voice that is unlike any other. His voice is both a blessing and a curse for it can magnify the emotions of his audience, and Ansset discovers that he can use his voice to heal or to destroy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Publisher Marketing:
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Enders Game comes a brand-new series following a teen who wakes up on an abandoned Earth to discover that he's a clone. Laz is a side-stepper: a teen with the incredible power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. All his life, there was no mistake that a little side-stepping couldn't fix. Until Laz wakes up one day in a cloning facility on...
51) Sarah
Author
Series
Women of Genesis volume 1
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
From bestselling author Orson Scott Card comes a vivid and imaginative portrayal of the biblical Sarah, Abraham's loyal wife and Isaac's loving mother. Forced finally to share her husband after a lifetime of devotion, rebuked by the Lord for her unbelief, and grappling with fears that her beloved Isaac will be displaced by Hagar's Ishmael, Sarah is nonetheless a triumphant figure. Covering the events recorded in Genesis up to the birth of Isaac and...
52) The crystal city
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Description
Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. Dowsers find water, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch can read a person's future--or their hearts.
54) Earth Afire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
55) The Swarm
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
An all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War. 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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"In Gatefather, the third installment in the Mithermages series, New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. 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...
57) Wakers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Seventeen-year-old Laz Hayerian wakes up on an abandoned Earth to discover that he and his companion Ivy Downey are clones, and they must work together--combining their talents to sense and step into and out of timestreams--to save humanity from imminent extinction.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Collection of three novellas plus the original "Enders Game," the journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. "The Polish Boy" begins in the wake between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender, they believe they may have found their man, or boy. In "Teacher's Pest," a brilliant but insufferably arrogant...
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 6
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, the author has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies.