Orson Scott Card

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  • Bibliography:
    111 Books (15 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1978
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Empire

1 - Empire (Nov-2006)
2 - Hidden Empire (Jan-2010)

Ender / Speaker

1 - Ender's Game (Jan-1985)
2 - Speaker for the Dead (Feb-1986)
3 - Xenocide (Jul-1991)
4 - Children of the Mind (Jul-1996)
4.3 - First Meetings in the Enderverse (Aug-2003)
4.5 - A War of Gifts (Nov-2007)
5 - Ender in Exile (Nov-2008)
6 - The Last Shadow (Nov-2021)

Enderverse (chronologically)

1 - Ender's Game (Jan-1985)
1.5 - A War of Gifts (Nov-2007)
2 - Ender's Shadow (Oct-1999)
3 - Ender in Exile (Nov-2008)
4 - Shadow of the Hegemon (Dec-2001)
5 - Shadow Puppets (Sep-2002)
6 - Shadow of the Giant (Mar-2005)
7 - Speaker for the Dead (Feb-1986)
8 - Xenocide (Jul-1991)
9 - Children of the Mind (Jul-1996)
10 - Shadows in Flight (Jan-2012)
First Meetings in the Enderverse (Aug-2003)

Fleet School

1 - Children of the Fleet (Oct-2017)

Future on Fire

1 - Future on Fire (Feb-1991)
2 - Future on Ice (Oct-1998)

Homecoming

1 - The Memory of Earth (Mar-1992)
2 - The Call of Earth (Jan-1993)
3 - The Ships of Earth (Feb-1994)
4 - Earthfall (Feb-1995)
5 - Earthborn (May-1995)

Maps in a Mirror

1 - Maps in a Mirror (Oct-1990)
2 - Flux: Tales of Human Futures (Sep-1992)
3 - Cruel Miracles (Dec-1992)
4 - Monkey Sonatas (Mar-1993)

Mither Mages

1 - The Lost Gate (Jan-2011)
2 - The Gate Thief (Mar-2013)
3 - Gatefather (Oct-2015)

Pastwatch

The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
The Flood (Oct-2009)

Pathfinder

1 - Pathfinder (Dec-2010)
2 - Ruins (Nov-2012)
3 - Visitors (Nov-2014)

Shadow (Bean)

1 - Ender's Shadow (Oct-1999)
2 - Shadow of the Hegemon (Dec-2001)
3 - Shadow Puppets (Sep-2002)
3.5 - First Meetings in the Enderverse (Aug-2003)
4 - Shadow of the Giant (Mar-2005)
4.5 - A War of Gifts (Nov-2007)
5 - Shadows in Flight (Jan-2012)

The Side-Step Trilogy

1 - Wakers (Feb-2022)

Tales of Alvin Maker

1 - Seventh Son (1987)
2 - Red Prophet (Jan-1988)
3 - Prentice Alvin (Feb-1989)
4 - Alvin Journeyman (Sep-1995)
5 - Heartfire (Aug-1998)
6 - The Crystal City (Nov-2003)

Women of Genesis

1 - Sarah (Sep-2001)
2 - Rebekah (Dec-2001)
3 - Rachel and Leah (Dec-2005)

The Worthing Chronicle

1 - Capitol (1979)
2 - Hot Sleep (Jan-1979)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

Enchantment (Apr-1999)

Marvel's Iron Man

Ultimate Iron Man II (Jan-2008)
Ultimate Comics Iron Man Ultimate Collection (Mar-2010)
Ultimate Iron Man, Volume 1 (Aug-2012)

Book List in Order: 111 titles

  • Songmaster

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    Kidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation at the mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life has been filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any heard befo...

  • Hot Sleep

    The Worthing Chronicle - 2

    ONLY TIME WAS ON HIS SIDE... Billions of people had watched loops of his daring exploits as a starship captain. He was all the rage in the highest circles of Capitol society. But to a group of revolutionaries, Jason Worthing was at the heart of th...

  • Capitol

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    The Worthing Chronicle - 1

  • Planet Called Treason // Treason

    HE WALKS THE PERILOUS PATH FROM DISGRACE TO LEGEND Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad"--radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh......

  • Dragons of Light

  • Dragons of Darkness

  • Hart's Hope

    JUSTICE IS CRUEL But tender mercy is the cruelest of all. It was for mercy's sake that Palicroval the Fair left you to live after the desecration of your honor...to live and become great Queen Beauty, whose power makes the very gods tremble and...

  • Worthing Chronicle

  • A Woman of Destiny

    For Pride, For Passion, For Her Family From the inferno of industrial England to the shining promise of a new America, Dinah Kirkham rose to free herself and her children from poverty's grim reign, and reach for the freedom that is every woman's d...



  • Saints

    HARD TIMES MAKE HARD PEOPLE When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leaving in the middle of the night, she asked when he would he back. "Soon:' he said. On that night in 1829, John Kirkham built the foundation of his daughter's certainty t...

  • Ender's Game

    Ender / Speaker - 1
    Enderverse (chronologically) - 1

    "INTENSE is the word for ENDER'S GAME. Aliens have attacked Earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses--and then training them in the ar...

  • Speaker for the Dead

    Ender / Speaker - 2
    Enderverse (chronologically) - 7

    In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ...

  • Seventh Son

    Tales of Alvin Maker - 1

    Using the lore and folk magic of the men and women who helped settle a continent and the beliefs of the tribes who were here before them, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate frontier America where folk magic works, and has colored the entire hi...

  • Red Prophet

    Tales of Alvin Maker - 2

    Come home to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people....

  • Wyrms

    It is an alien sphere, but one controlled by Man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvation...or the destruction of...

  • Prentice Alvin

    Tales of Alvin Maker - 3

    Orson Scott Card, author of the bestselling science fiction novel Ender's Game, also created a series to satisfy fantasy readers.Prentice Alvin Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committi...

  • The Abyss

  • The Folk of the Fringe

    Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological, and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Desere...

  • Maps in a Mirror

    Maps in a Mirror - 1

    Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one...



  • Eye for Eye // The Tunesmith

    A teenager who has the ability to kill people without touching them tries to escape from those who want to use his power for their own purposes, and the last true musician on Earth uses his music to fight the enforced mediocrity of the Performers' Gu...

  • The Worthing Saga

    It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful, they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Some created two societies: that of peop...

  • Future on Fire

    Future on Fire - 1

    "New writers bring vision. The writers of the eighties changed us all, quite often against our will." --FROM ORSON SCOTT CARD'S INTRODUCTION TO FUTURE ON FIRE 'Future on Fire is the first volume in a series that will collect representative stori...

  • Xenocide

    Ender / Speaker - 3
    Enderverse (chronologically) - 8

    THE WAR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET LUSITANIA WILL BE FOUGHT IN THE HEART OF A CHILD NAMED GLORIOUSLY BRIGHT. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different i...

  • The Memory of Earth

    Homecoming - 1

    High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet--to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves...

  • The Changed Man

    These eleven chilling tales from bestselling author Orson Scott Card, including the author's introductions and afterword comments, provoke the dreaded dark side of the reader's imagination. The Changed Man, the first volume of stories in the Maps in ...

  • Flux: Tales of Human Futures

    Maps in a Mirror - 2

    Here are seven tales of the possible futures open to humanity, including Card's brilliant story, "The Originist," set with permission in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe....

  • Lost Boys

    From bestselling storyteller Orson Scott Card comes a gripping story of terror within a small town. Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children move to Steuben, North Carolina with high hopes. But Step's new job with a software ...

  • Cruel Miracles

    Maps in a Mirror - 3

    "I believe that speculative fiction--science fiction in particular--is the last American refuge of religious literature. Real religious literature, I think, explores the nature of the universe and discovers the purpose behind it. When we find that pu...

  • The Call of Earth

    Homecoming - 2

    As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above t...



  • Story Teller in Zion

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  • Monkey Sonatas

    Maps in a Mirror - 4

    A collection of science fiction and fantasy tales by the acclaimed author offers readers ten excursions into the realm of the fantastic and the mythic. Orson Scott Card's Monkey Sonatas: Fables and Fantasies is part of the Maps in a Mirrors series of...

  • Homecoming

    Homecoming: Harmony is an omnibus edition of the first three books (The Memory of Earth, The Call of Earth, and The Ships of Earth) in Card's Homecoming Saga. It does not include the last two books (Earthfall, Earthborn) in the series....

  • The Ships of Earth

    Homecoming - 3

    The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar s...

  • Earthfall

    Homecoming - 4

    The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But fro...

  • Earthborn

    Homecoming - 5

    High above the Earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundreds of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. She now wears the Cl...

  • Alvin Journeyman

    Tales of Alvin Maker - 4

    Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century. Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes t...

  • Pastwatch

    [MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]

    [Narrators are: Scott Brick, Christopher Cazenove, Gabrielle de Cuir, Arte Johnson, Moira Quirk, Stefan Rudnicki, and Orson Scott Card]

    In a not-too-distant future that is not quite ours, there...

  • The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

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    Pastwatch

    IN ONE O'F THE MOST POWERFUL AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING NOVELS OF HIS REMARKABLE CAREER, ORSON SCOTT CARD INTERWEAVES A COMPELLING PORTRAIT OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WITH THE STORY OF A FUTURE SCIENTIST WHO BELIEVES SHE CAN ALTER HUMAN HISTORY FROM A TRAGED...

  • Children of the Mind

    Ender / Speaker - 4
    Enderverse (chronologically) - 9

    THE DESTRUCTION OF LUSITANIA DRAWS NEAR The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of -humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once again the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Co...



  • Treasure Box

    A FAMILY SECRET BEST KEPT QUIET Quentin Fears is a certifiable recluse, moving restlessly from town to town, investing the millions he's made as a software creator and always avoiding companionship. Until one night he meets his dream woman, Madele...

  • Black Mist

    Japan has long been one of the key players in business, technology, and culture...and now some of today's finest writers have created these all-new novellas envisioning how its influence will change the world! Calling on their expert knowledge of Jap...

  • Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures: And Other Japanese Fu

  • Homebody

    DAMAGED HOUSES A master craftsman, Don Lark could fix everything except what mattered, his own soul. After tragedy claimed the one thing he loved, he began looking for dilapidated houses to buy, renovate, and resell at a profit--giving these empty s...

  • Heartfire

    Tales of Alvin Maker - 5

    Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire - burning in each person's heart. She can follow the paths of each person's future, and know each person's most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him...

  • Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy

    Here they are, the writers and the worlds that have satisfied millions of readers. Each has returned to their compelling special places to tell a new tale that enriches and illuminates their most famous creations, in a big, lavish volume enhanced wit...

  • Future on Ice

    Future on Fire - 2

    Orson Scott Card's companion anthology to Future on Fire, a compendium of exciting stories by the hottest writers of the 1980s and 1990s."To my mind, fiction that tastes like medicine is no damn good. If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares ho...

  • Enchantment

    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    The moment young Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay as still as death--while a malevolent presence stirred in the...

  • Magic Mirror

  • Ender's Shadow

    Enderverse (chronologically) - 2
    Shadow (Bean) - 1

    A COMPANION VOLUME TO ENDER'S GAME, ONE THAT EXPANDS AND COMPLIMENTS THE FIRST, ENHANCING ITS POWER, ILLUMINATING ITS EVENTS AND ITS POWERFUL CONCLUSION. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of th...



  • Stone Tables

    Noted author Orson Scott Card explores what it might have been like to be Moses, and provides an account of the lives of Moses's brother, Aaron, his sister Miriam, the two women that he called mother, and the woman he married....

  • A Plague of Butterflies

    in Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic

  • Sarah

    Women of Genesis - 1

    Sarai was a child of ten years, wise for her age but not yet a woman, wfien she first met Abram. He appeared before her in her father's house, filthy from the desert, tired and thirsty. But as the dirt of travel was washed from his body, the sight of...

  • The Elephants Of Posnan: and Other Stories

    Here are masterpieces by a New York Times bestselling author, a past and present master of the short forms in fantasy, science fiction, and horror. This collection includes original unpublished stories, "The Elephants of Posnan" and "Feed the Baby of...

  • Rebekah

    Women of Genesis - 2

    Born into a time and place where a woman speaks her mind at her peril, and reared as a motherless child by a doting father, Rebekah grew up to be a stunning, headstrong beauty. She was chosen by God for a special destiny. For Rebekah must leave he...

  • Shadow of the Hegemon

    Enderverse (chronologically) - 4
    Shadow (Bean) - 2

    The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. T...

  • Empire of Dreams and Miracles

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    A collection of 12 short stories edited by world-famous best-selling author Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), and Keith Olexa, former managing editor of Starlog, the preeminent Science Fiction news magazine....

  • Shadow Puppets

    Enderverse (chronologically) - 5
    Shadow (Bean) - 3

    Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics--the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, an...

  • First Meetings in the Enderverse

    Ender / Speaker - 4.3
    Enderverse (chronologically)
    Shadow (Bean) - 3.5

    Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game-winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. "The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father...

  • Hitting the Skids in Pixeltown

  • The Crystal City

    Tales of Alvin Maker - 6

    Alvin has been trying to avert a terrible war that his wife Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the lifelines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelona as they call it un...

  • Masterpieces

    A collection of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card.Featuring stories from the genre's greatest authors: Isaac Asimov • Arthur C. Clarke ...

  • Posing as People

    Science fiction is rare in theatrical form, but with Posing As People, three unforgettable sci-fi stories by Orson Scott Card are adapted into powerful stage plays by three different writers.“Clap Hands and Sing” shows us a lonely—b...

  • Robota

    Academy Award-winning artist Doug Chiang & best-selling science fiction author Orson Scott Card join forces in this extraordinary illustrated adventure. ''Robota'' follows the fortunes of our hero, Caps, as he navigates an ancient, decaying world in ...

  • Shadow of the Giant

    Enderverse (chronologically) - 6
    Shadow (Bean) - 4

    Julian Delphiki grew up being called Bean, because he was so very small as a child. But within that tiny body was a mental giant. He was the smallest and youngest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins's right hand. Since then h...

  • Magic Street

    In a prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, infant Mack Street is found abandoned in an overgrown park and taken in by a blunt-speaking single woman. Growing up, Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has stra...

  • Starscape

    Contains 4 classic Starscape titles:


    Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

    Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards

    In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniu...

  • Rachel and Leah

    Women of Genesis - 3

    Rachel and Leah is book three in New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card's Women of Genesis series -- a unique reimagining of the biblical tale.Tracing their lives from childhood to maturity, Card shows how the women of Genesis change each...

  • Empire

    Empire - 1

    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 bet...

  • The Space Boy

    Is it space that children dream of, or merely visiting other worlds? Todd had always set his heart on being an astronaut, but when he meets an alien and travels to another world, he doesn't use a spaceship, he just hangs out in his own back yard. In ...

  • A War of Gifts

    Ender / Speaker - 4.5
    Enderverse (chronologically) - 1.5
    Shadow (Bean) - 4.5

    Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; w...

  • Ultimate Iron Man II

    Marvel's Iron Man

    Collects Ultimate Iron Man II (2007) #1-5. When last we saw him, young Tony Stark was nearly blown to bits. How much of him survived his initial Iron Man trial run, and where does the young genius go from here? Plus: How does James Rhodes fit into ...

  • Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin Maker, Vol. 1

  • Keeper of Dreams

    This huge collection of short stories by one of science fiction's most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. Keeper of Dreams contains 22 stories written since 1990.From the opening science fiction tale, "The Elephants o...

  • Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show

    Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing submissions from well-known sf and fantasy writers, as well as fostering some amazing new talents. This collection...

  • Red Prophet: Tales of Alvin Maker, Vol. 2

  • Ender in Exile

    Ender / Speaker - 5
    Enderverse (chronologically) - 3

    At the close of Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin knows that he cannot live on Earth. 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 shatter...

  • Stonefather

    When Runnel, a friendless peasant from a village so humble that money is a new concept, leaves his mountain valley, he is completely unaware of his magical talents. Seeking his fortune, he stumbles into a centuries-old feud when he travels to Mitherh...

  • The Flood

    Pastwatch

  • Hidden Empire

    Empire - 2

    The war of words between right and left collapsed into a shooting war, and raged between the high-technology weapons on each side, devastating cities and overrunning the countryside. At the close of Empire, political scientist and government advis...

  • Ultimate Comics Iron Man Ultimate Collection

    Marvel's Iron Man

  • Pathfinder

    Pathfinder - 1

    From the internationally bestselling author who brought us Ender's Game comes a brand-new series that draws readers into the world of Rigg, a teenager who possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people's pasts. Rigg's only confi...

  • The Lost Gate

    Mither Mages - 1

    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 mira...

  • Dragon Age, Volume 1

    • Hailed as "the RPG of the Decade" by PC Gamer magazine, Dragon Age: Origins has redefined the modern fantasy roleplaying game. Now, the innovative game from BioWare becomes the latest hit comic from EA Comics!
    • In a time lost to his...

  • Hamlet's Father

    We all know Shakespeare's classic ghost story--the young prince Hamlet's dead father appears to him, demanding vengeance upon Hamlet's uncle Claudius, who has usurped the throne and, to add insult to injury, married Hamlet's mother.

    Hamlet dit...

  • Laddertop, Volume 1

    An original science fiction manga by the bestselling author of Ender's Game and his daughter Twenty-five years ago, the alien Givers came to Earth. They gave the human race the greatest technology ever seen -- four giant towers known as Ladders t...

  • Shadows in Flight

    Enderverse (chronologically) - 10
    Shadow (Bean) - 5

    At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children--the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their tr...

  • Intergalactic Medicine Show Awards Anthology, Vol. I

    InterGalactic Awards Anthology Vol. I is a collection of stories from Orson Scott Card's award-winning magazine InterGalactic Medicine Show, spotlighting the winners of the magazine's readers' poll for best artwork and best short fiction. Edited by O...

  • Silent Strike

    The all-new prequel to Orson Scott Card's science-fiction classic Ender's Game returns! With 44 million people killed by the toxic gas that the alien Formics unleashed in China, the only hope of a counter-agent lies with Mazer Rackham and the Mobile ...

  • Ultimate Iron Man, Volume 1

    Marvel's Iron Man

    Collects Ultimate Iron Man (2005) #1-5. If you thought The Ultimates told you everything you needed to know about Ultimate Iron Man, think again! See the origin of Ultimate Iron Man!...

  • Ruins

    Pathfinder - 2

    A complex fate. A deadly path. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls “an epic in the best sense.” When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagin...

  • The Gate Thief

    Mither Mages - 2

    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 sto...

  • Ender's World

    Experience the thrill of reading Ender's Game all over againGo deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card’s classic novel with science fiction and fantasy writers, YA authors, military strategists, including:Ender prequel series coauth...

  • Intergalactic Medicine Show

    Welcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novel: the award-winning magazine Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show (IGMS) has been an online haven for this powerful form of st...

  • Keeper of Dreams, Volume 1

    This huge new collection of the short stories of one of Science Fiction's most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. "Keeper of Dreams, Volume One" contains 24 stories, Card's new introductions for each story, and commen...

  • America

    Years after a war that destroyed America, Sam Monson, the governor of the state of Deseret, negotiates a peace treaty with a woman out of his past―on behalf of the son he left behind. This story is included in Orson Scott Card's collection The F...

  • The Fringe

    In a post-apocalyptic America, Timothy Carpenter is a teacher in a farming community. When he discovers the farm foreman and other men are stealing food, he reports them to the authorities―an action that could cost him his life. This story is in...

  • Pageant Wagon

    In a post-apocalyptic America, range rider Deaver Teague is trying to get to the town of Moab to replace his dead horse. Along the way, he's picked up by the Aal family’s pageant wagon. When Deaver decides to help them set up their next show, he be...

  • Salvage

    In a post-apocalyptic America, Deaver Teague makes a living salvaging things left behind from before the war. When he hears some truck drivers talking about a hidden cache of gold in a Mormon temple in flooded Salt Lake City, he enlists some friends ...

  • West

    In a post-apocalyptic America, Jamie Teague helps a group of travelers make their way past the murderous Bushwhackers. Jamie comes to find that the strangers are Mormons headed for Utah to avoid being massacred. Knowing that they will die without his...

  • Visitors

    Pathfinder - 3

    From the internationally bestselling author of Ender’s Game comes the riveting finale to the story of Rigg, a teenager who possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people’s pasts. In Pathfinder, Rigg joined forces with ano...

  • Gatefather

    Mither Mages - 3

    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 Ear...

  • Children of the Fleet

    Fleet School - 1

    From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and bestselling author of Ender's Game, his first solo Enderverse novel in years. CHILDREN OF THE FLEET is a new angle on Card’s bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the st...

  • A Town Divided by Christmas

    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 citiz...

  • Extinct

    From the creator of ENDER'S GAME comes a new sf series of hope, survival, and second chances. In a universe at war, the long-extinct human race may be the only hope for victory, in Orson Scott Card's EXTINCT, the first book in a new trilogy. Four ...

  • Lost and Found

    ''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 go...

  • Duplex

    New York Times bestselling authorHugo and Nebula Award–winning authorRyan 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 ...

  • Enders spel

  • The Last Shadow

    Ender / Speaker - 6

    Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe -- the deadly virus they call the desco...

  • Wakers

    The Side-Step Trilogy - 1

    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 t...

  • Laddertop 3

    All seems lost as a giant comet hurtles toward Earth, while Robbi’s Laddertop is thrown into chaos by the unleashing of Energy Spiders that now prowl the Power Web. As Robbi races against time to save the Laddertop and reveal its final secret, ...

  • Formic Wars: Burning Earth (Prequel to Ender's Game)

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    The never-before-told prequel to ENDER''S GAME! An unidentified ship is rocketing toward Earth with tech far beyond anything we''ve ever seen, and the only people who can give warning are a small band of asteroid miners millions of miles from home. T...

Award-Winning Books by Orson Scott Card

Alvin Journeyman
1996 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Ender's Game
1986 Hugo Award -- Novel
1986 Nebula Award -- Novel
Ender's Shadow
2000 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults
Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
1999 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults
Lost Boys
1990 Locus Award -- Short Story
2005 Audies -- Science Fiction
Prentice Alvin
1990 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Red Prophet
1989 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Seventh Son
1988 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Speaker for the Dead
1986 Nebula Award -- Novel
1987 Hugo Award -- Novel
1987 Locus Award -- Science Fiction


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Orson Scott Card has published 111 books.

Orson Scott Card does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Laddertop 3, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Orson Scott Card, Songmaster, was published in January 1978.

Yes. Orson Scott Card has 15 series.
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