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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...
2) Xenocide
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
First trade edidtion
Physical Desc
x, 394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lusitania's three sapient species are in trouble. The starways congress has decided to wipe out the planet to kept a deadly virus from escaping . A fourth intelligence loyal to Ender and Lusitania causes the fleet to disappear. What is the Starways Congress going to do next?
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
xiv, 415 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.
"Three thousand planet-bound years have fled since Edgar Wiggin won Earth's war with the Formics by totally destroying them. Ender remains young, traveling constantly at relativistic speeds. In three thousand years, the Hive Queen and the Hegemon have become holy writ, and...
4) Ender's game
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In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut―young Ender is the Wiggin...
Author
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Homecoming saga volume 1
Language
English
Description
Oversoul is the master caretaker of the planet Harmony. Its systems are failing and it must go back to Earth for repair.
7) Magic street
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English
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When Mack Street discovers an entryway into another world, he discovers his own magical powers and realizes his actions have a strange impact on the real world.
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Homecoming saga volume 2
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English
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A powerful computer, the Oversoul, has the task of governing human affairs on the planet Harmony and needs to be repaired. Moozh, a great warrior, flouts the Oversoul. Can anyone stop him or will the planet fall?
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, 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.
10) Ender in exile
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
380 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
237 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Seventh son
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
241 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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-...
13) Prentice Alvin
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 3
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 342 p. ; 25
Language
English
Description
Alvin Smith arrives at Hatrack River to take up his apprenticeship to become a blacksmith with the works of the Unmaker close at hand.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone in the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and founding colonies.
The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador's telescopes...
15) Wyrms
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
16) The gate thief
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In this sequel to The Lost Gate, bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. 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...
17) Earthfall
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Oversoul, a powerful computer that has the task of watching over the planet Harmony, is failing and must be taken to Earth to be repaired.
18) The crystal city
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
384 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the sixth installment in the alternative history in which Alvin Maker, a man who has the magical ability to create, repair, heal, or destroy, travels to New Orleans where he saves his friends from a deadly plague and takes the first steps toward his envisioned destiny in the Crystal City.
19) Wakers
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages, 13 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.
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