Orson Scott Card
81) Ender's game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"History would eventually record that child prodigy Ender Wiggin led humanity's victory over the ant-like aliens known as the Formics. But where did it all begin? During its earliest days, the first blood of the Formic Wars was spilled by a ragtag band of asteroid miners, the son of a corrupt industrialist and a dedicated cadre of Special Forces soldiers. Now, for the first time, the secret history of author Orson Scott Card's legendary Ender's Game...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The carpet maker, following the traditions of his fathers, will spend his entire life making one carpet from the hair of his wife and daughters, so fine and fragile that only the God Emperor may purchase it, until the Empire disappears and strangers arrive, finding something unbelievable in the patterns of the carpets.
Author
Publisher
Marvel Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The human race is a war with an alien race of insect-like beings. The first battles went badly, and now Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy. Earth builds a high-orbital facility called "Battle School" to train future military commanders from childhood. At the Battle School there is room for only one purpose--war. There is no room for cultural differences, religious...
99) Future on ice
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Science fiction stories from the 1980s. The story, Out of All Them Stars by Nancy Kress, is on the cultural impact of visiting aliens, while in Portraits of His Children by George R.R Martin, an author's characters come to life.