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Robota has always stood out to me because in one sense it is a science fiction concept art book, at least that's the perception I've always had. However, the art included is all connected to the narrative written by Orson Scott Card. Know of other books developed this way, with a team of the...

Orson Scott Card The original Ender Quartet and the Shadow books and the Formic Wars books and the prequels. Is there a recommended reading order for all these? I'm making a (belated I know!) reading plan for this year/10 months. Sometime late summer I will be going at all the Ender...

Magic Street Orson Scott Card Del Rey, July 2005, $24.95, 400 pp. ISBN 0345416899 One day while driving home Dr. Byron Williams acts totally out of character by picking up a homeless person he dubs the Bag Man. This creature tells him his wife is pregnant and when they arrive home, he finds his...

Treason Orson Scott Card Orb, Feb 2006, $14.95 ISBN: 0765309041 Dissolute and haughty Lanik Mueller is the heir to his family’s ruling of Planet Treason. Like his kin, Lanik has the ability to regenerate injured flesh; unlike his clan, he can also freakishly regenerate body parts, which he...

EMPIRE Orson Scott Card Tor, Nov 2006, $24.95 ISBN: 0765316110 The two extremes in the USA have reached a point of hatred that threatens the fiber of the country. Neither extremist group wants to compromise because they believe that makes them seem weak. The vast center prefers harmony, but...

Wizards Edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Berkley, May 2007, $25.00 ISBN 0425215180 Gandalf the Grey fans will want to read this nineteenth story fantasy collection that star wizards in fresh tales not printed before. The authors are a who’s who of the genre with no pretenders and none...

Keeper of Dreams Orson Scott Card Tor, Apr 2008, $27.95 ISBN: 9780765304971 The collection is broken into categories with six Science Fiction entries; eight Fantasies; two Literary; two Hatrack River (short novels related to Alvin Maker); and four Morman Stories. Each entry has notes afterward...

Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card Tor, Aug 2008, $16.95 ISBN: 9780765320001 The eighteen stories selected for this anthology were first published in the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006 and were considered the best from the...

The Ghost Quartet Marvin Kaye (editor) Tor, Sep 2008, $25.95 ISBN: 0765312514 “A Place of No Ending” by Brian Lumley. In Eastern Dartmoor Moor, Paul learns first hand the truth about ghosts. “Hamlet’s Father” by Orson Scott Card. Teenager Hamlet knows his father the Danish King thinks little...

Ender in Exile Orson Scott Card Tor, Nov 2008, $25.95 ISBN: 9780765304964 The third Formic War ended thanks to Andrew “Ender” Wiggins who believed he was playing a computer simulation game at Battle School instead of actually killing the Queens who gathered on a single planet. With their...

Hidden Empire Orson Scott Card Tor, Dec 2009, $24.99 ISBN: 9780765320049 It took a mini civil war and an alleged attempted coup to make former Professor Averell Torrent President of the United States as his predecessor was assassinated. As a professor Torrent had definite ideas on what the USA...

The Lost Gate Orson Scott Card Tor, Jan 11 2011, $24.99 ISBN 9780765326577 His ancestry comes from another world, but they were sent here in exile. Danny North knows his DNA flows with ages of mages, but does not think much about it. That changes when powers surface that scare him. He is a...

Laddertop Orson Scott Card and Emily Janice Card; Honoel A. Ibardolaza(illustrator) Tor Seven Seas, Sep 27 2011, $10.99 ISBN: 9780765324603 At the Deerfield Middle school tweeners reticent Robbi Holton and aggressive Azure Miles are BFFs. Whereas Robbi expects to remain at Deerfield, Azure...

Shadows In Flight Orson Scott Card Tor, Jan 17 2012, $21.99 ISBN: 9780765332004 Julian “Bean” Delphiki suffers from a genetic alteration, in which his brain is light-years beyond genius, but his body suffers from extreme gigantism; he will be dead soon though he is only in his twenties. He left...

Earth Unaware Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston Tor, Jul 17 2012, $24.99 ISBN: 9780765329042 An extended family affair, the mining ship El Cavador travels deep inside of the Kuiper Belt. When an object is detected decelerating, the crew knows this is a visit by a vessel from outside the solar...

I did not read this until this month (July 2014). And I decided to give it a go having seen the trailers for the film which features Star Wars' Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield who was mesmerising in both the TV series Merlin(he played Mordred) and of course the film Hugo. I hope to see the...

I read Ender's Game a while ago and enjoyed it, though I didn't fall in love with it or think it was one of the best things I've ever read, as others have experienced. Nonetheless, I just saw the film and it has reignited my interest in the series and I'm interested in reading on...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrms_(novel) I THINK we put reviews in here, right? Besides, I'd really like to engage in some discussion on this book with others who have read it. It's about a girl, a sort of princess/assassin who's suddenly orphaned when her father, the King, dies. And...

Came upon the short story "America" in a sci fi collection... I was surprised that I'd never heard of it before. It's an amazing, almost mythological piece of work. I hadn't thought OSC could work in the short story format well - I found some of the short pieces in the Worthing Saga a bit flat -...

G'day all. I picked up Xenocide to complete the "Ender trilogy", I really liked Ender's Game and sort of liked SftD even though it was a slow book. How is Xenocide? My friend says it is more pacy like book 1 than 2 and more action and just as good a story.