Orson Scott Card

A collection of science fiction tales from the bestselling author of Ender's Game. Cruel Miracles, part of the Maps in a Mirror series of Card's collected fiction, presents the Hugo Award-winning story "Eye for Eye," as well as an autobiographical essay by the author himself. "This book is a revelation and a delight."--Macon Telegraph on Cruel Miracles At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software...

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...

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, as well as the beliefs of the tribes...

A provocative collection of short fiction, edited by one of science fiction's best-known names. Of particular interest in Future on Fire are several stories from the cyberpunk school, as well as Pat Murphy's Nebula award-winning `"Rachel in Love” and Ursula K. Le Guin's wonderful "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight.” "Card's selections are excellent and include an interesting range of approaches to science fiction."-School Library Journal At...

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 before. Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse, for the young Songbird can reflect all the hopes and fears his audience feels and, by magnifying their emotions, use his voice to heal-or to destroy....

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 a Mirror series, wonderfully showcases Card's versatility in both genre and form.

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston's taut thriller Invasive Procedures takes readers a few years into the future, and shows the promise and danger of new genetic medicine techniques. George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But, Galen is dangerously insane, he has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but to "improve" people, make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly, and make them...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 33: July 2018 Mike Resnick, Editor Taylor Morris, Copyeditor Shahid Mahmud, Publisher R.K. Nickel, Gerri Leen, Orson Scott Card, George Nikolopoulos, Rebecca Birch, Deborah L. Davitt, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Larry Hodges, Floris M. Kleijne, Robert Silverberg, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Ralph Roberts, Nancy Kress Serialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 30: January 2018 Mike Resnick, Editor Taylor Morris, Copyeditor Shahid Mahmud, Publisher Stories: Nick DiChario, Laurie Tom, Joe Haldeman, David Afsharirad, George Nikolopoulos, Kij Johnson, M. E. Garber, David VonAllmen, Mercedes Lackey, Sean Patrick Hazlett, Eric Leif Davin, Orson Scott Card Serialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford Recommended...

One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston is the story of the First Formic War.
Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn't believe that until space stations and ships and colonies went up in sudden flame.
And when that happened,

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