Orson Scott Card -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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Best Horror Value Collection II (Horror Library)
Orson Scott Card(Editor), Martin Greenberg (Editor) / Audio Cassette / Expected August 2000
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Orson Scott Card, the winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for fiction, and Martin H. Greenberg, editor/author of over 100 different short story and novella anthologies, have teamed together to produce the Dercum Value Collections. Each volume in the series contains four ninety-minute cassettes, with six hours of some of the best stories in the genre, for under $20! These collections are not available in book form anywhere: they were selected and recorded especially for Dercum Audio. Volume two of the horror collection includes such classics as Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card; The...

Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card / Paperback / Expected August 2000
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Best Science Fiction Value Collection II (Science Fiction Library)
Orson Scott Card(Editor), Martin Greenberg (Editor) / Audio Cassette / Expected June 2000
Price: $16.97 - Savings of: $3.00 (15%) Not Yet Published
Orson Scott Card, the winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for fiction, and Martin H. Greenberg, editor/author of over 100 different short story and novella anthologies, have teamed together to produce the Dercum Value Collections. Each volume in the series contains four ninety-minute cassettes, with six hours of some of the best stories in the genre, for under $20! These collections are not available in book form anywhere: they were selected and recorded especially for Dercum Audio. Volume two of the science fiction collection contains eight classic stories, including Chump Cha...

Best Horror Value Collection III (Horror Library)
Orson Scott Card(Editor), Martin Greenberg (Editor) / Audio Cassette / Expected June 2000
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Best Fantasy Value Collection III (Fantasy Library)
Orson Scott Card(Editor), Martin Greenberg (Editor) / Audio Cassette / Expected June 2000
Price: $19.95 Not Yet Published

Recent

Enchantment
Orson Scott Card / Mass Market Paperback / Published March 2000
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"Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller . . . Enchantment is the ultimate proof." --ANNE MCCAFFREY "[A] MASTERPIECE OF THE FANTASTIC . . . THIS IS A NOVEL TO SAVOR . . . DELICIOUS." --Rocky Mountain News "Mixing magic and modernity, the acclaimed Orson Scott Card has woven threads of history, religion, and myth together into a convincing, time-hopping tale that is part love story, part adventure." --Amazon.com "CARD IS A POWERFUL STORYTELLER." --Los Angeles Times

Future on Ice
Orson Scott Card / Paperback / Published January 2000
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The much-delayed follow-up to Future on Fire, another anthology of the best short SF from the 1980s, Future on Ice delivers a tight, choice collection from some of the genre's top names--Isaac Asimov, Octavia Butler, Greg Bear, George R.R. Martin, Nancy Kress, and others. SF anthologies live or die by the quality of their ideas, and Future on Ice doesn't disappoint: editor Orson Scott Card (a genre powerhouse himself) has put together an eclectic and thought-provoking set of 18 stories, from Butler's disturbing but imaginative vision of a burned-out future without language to Martin's Twilight...

The Ender Wiggin Saga [ABRIDGED]
Orson Scott Card, et al / Audio Cassette / Published November 1999
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This nine-tape audio package brings together, for the first time, the initial four titles by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Orson Scott Card in the saga of Ender Wiggin, Ender's Game, Speaker of the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind.

Ender's Game [ABRIDGED]
Orson Scott Card / Audio Cassette / Published November 1999
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When aliens twice attack the earth and almost destroy the human race, the government prepares for the next encounter with "art of war" training games. 2 cassettes.

Maps in a Mirror : The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card(Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published November 1999
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This book brings together nearly all of Card's stories, from his first publications in 1977 to work as recent as last year. 46 stories are divided into five sections encompassing a wide range of fiction, with commentary on each particular genre.

Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Years after the terrible war, only the Speaker for the Dead has the courage to confront the truth when a second alien race is discovered. 2 cassettes.

Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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When aliens twice attack the earth and almost destroy the human race, the government prepares for the next encounter with "art of war" training games. 2 cassettes.

Lovelock
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Famed planetologist Carol Jeanne Cocciolone embarks on a one-way voyage across the galaxy as part of a team of colonists, accompanied by her companion Lovelock, a mentally enhanced monkey with special powers and a thirst for freedom. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

Ships of Earth
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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The Call of Earth
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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The continuing saga of Nafai and his family on the planet Harmony brings the hero once more into conflict with Oversoul--the orbiting space station that controls almost every aspect of life on the planet. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

Memory of Earth
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Malfunctioning due to its own failing system, the Oversaul, an artificial intelligence caring for the colonists on the planet Harmony, could bring about catastrophic war on the planet unless someone repairs it. 100,000 first printing.

Lost Boys
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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A family battles against an unseen evil that slowly takes hold of their oldest son. 2 cassettes.

Xenocide
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Sequel to Ender's Game (1984) and Speaker for the Dead (1986), exploring the problems of alien contact and coexistence on planet Lusitania, where now three intelligent species dwell: human colonists; ``buggers'' (an arachnoid Hive Queen reasserts herself after the near extinction of her species in the human-bugger war); and the indigenous ``piggies,'' who, after a horrid flaying-alive ceremony, metamorphose into sapient trees. But the planet is rife with descolada virus; this mediates the transformation of piggies into trees, but in humans mutates into a deadly, ineradicable plague. Rather tha...

Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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In the epic conclusion of the Ender saga, Ender Wiggin confronts his ultimate challenge when his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by his old planet-destroying weapon, and his ally, Jane, is about to be killed off by the Starways Congress. By the author of Ender's Game.

Hart's Hope
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Seventh Son
Orson Scott Card / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Multiple award winner Card is one of the greatest practitioners of science fiction; here he delivers a history fantasy of the Wabash Valley circa 1800, a world of hexes and folk magic. This is the first book about Alvin Maker, the seventh son of a seventh son, who has remarkable psychic powers. Card is a very good narrator, expressive and well paced. One can hear the excitement of an author as he brings his own well described characters to life. There is one momentary technical glitch, the only slip up in an exemplary presentation. Highly recommended for fiction collections everywhere. D.W. Au...

Ender's Shadow [ABRIDGED]
Orson Scott Card, Michael Gross (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published September 1999
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Ender's Shadow is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game. By "parallel," Card means that Shadow begins and ends at roughly the same time as Game, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he...

Magic Mirror
Orson Scott Card, Nathan Pinnock (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published August 1999
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Orson Scott Card weaves a tale of a mythical familys upheaval, showing the consequences of misplaced hopes and what happens when people let themselves become disconnected from one another. Somewhere between medieval fantasy and contemporary fairy tale, a dark story turns into light. Ultimately, we see that is never too late to escape from a dream gone bad. This is truly a fable for our time.

Heartfire (Card, Orson Scott. Tales of Alvin Maker, 5.)
Orson Scott Card / Hardcover / Published August 1999
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Enders Game
Orson Scott Card(Introduction) / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1999
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When aliens twice attack the earth and almost destroy the human race, the government prepares for the next encounter with "art of war" training games. 2 cassettes.

Alvin Journeyman : The Tales of Alvin Maker (Card, Orson Scott. Tales of Alvin Maker (Los Angeles, Calif.), 4.) [ABRIDGED]
Orson Scott Card, Nana Visitor (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published June 1999
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Alvin returns to his family in the town of Vigor Church to share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and teach anyone who wishes to learn the secrets of being a maker. Reprint. AB. LJ.

Heartfire : The Tales of Alvin Maker V (Card, Orson Scott. Tales of Alvin Maker, 5.)
Orson Scott Card / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1999
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Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him. Now they are married. But Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. But only one slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy's quest to set the world on that path to peace.

Characters and Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing)
Orson Scott Card / Paperback / Published April 1999
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This guide provides practical, in-depth instruction on how fiction writers can make the best choices in creating characters and handling viewpoint. Writers will learn how to put original, yet realistic people in their stories, while choosing the viewpoint that best suits the characters and the storyline.

Enchantment : A Classic Fantasy With a Modern Twist [ABRIDGED]
Orson Scott Card, Alyssa Bresnahan (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published April 1999
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Enchantment is the story of a Ukraine-born, American grad student who finds himself transported to the ninth century to play the prince in a Russian version of Sleeping Beauty. Early in the story, he muses that in a French or English retelling of the tale, the prince and princess would live happily ever after. But, "only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale."

Prentice Alvin (Card, Orson Scott. Tales of Alvin Maker (Los Angeles, Calif.), 3.) [ABRIDGED]
Orson Scott Card, Nana Visitor (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published April 1999
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The saga of Alvin Maker, set in an alternative version of the American frontier country, continues, in a tale full of folklore and magic. By the author of Ender's Game. Reissue. AB. PW. K. LJ.

Enchantment
Orson Scott Card / Hardcover / Published April 1999
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Enchantment is the story of a Ukraine-born, American grad student who finds himself transported to the ninth century to play the prince in a Russian version of Sleeping Beauty. Early in the story, he muses that in a French or English retelling of the tale, the prince and princess would live happily ever after. But, "only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale."

Homebody : A Novel
Orson Scott Card / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 1999
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Since the tragic death of his wife and daughter, Don Lark has been moving from town to town, fixing up old houses and reselling them at a profit. He plans to do the same with the dilapidated mansion he's just bought in Greensboro, North Carolina, until the cheery neighbors, the lovely real estate broker, and even the old house work their charms on him and he decides to stay. But when he discovers a hidden tunnel under the cellar and starts asking questions, his welcome is suddenly worn out. There's more than a few skeletons in the closet in this distinctly modern variation on the haunted house...

Lucky That Way
Brad Gregger, et al / Paperback / Published January 1999
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Brad Fregger is the "old man" of computer games, involved since the early days at Atari. He shares fascinating stories from the industry mixed with gems of humor and wisdom. His easy conversational style makes this book a joy to read and hard to put down.

Red Prophet (Card, Orson Scott. Tales of Alvin Maker (Los Angeles, Calif.), 2.) [ABRIDGED]
Orson Scott Card, Nana Visitor (Performer) / Audio Cassette / Published December 1998
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The first tale of Alvin Maker, "Seventh Son", introduced people to a very familiar but just slightly different pioneer America where magic works, and many people have special talents. In "Red Prophet", listeners learn more about those talents, both the minor gifts of the white people and the much grander gifts of the Indians. Abridged. November '98 publication date.

Future on Ice
Orson Scott Card(Editor) / Hardcover / Published October 1998
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The much-delayed follow-up to Future on Fire, another anthology of the best short SF from the 1980s, Future on Ice delivers a tight, choice collection from some of the genre's top names--Isaac Asimov, Octavia Butler, Greg Bear, George R.R. Martin, Nancy Kress, and others. SF anthologies live or die by the quality of their ideas, and Future on Ice doesn't disappoint: editor Orson Scott Card (a genre powerhouse himself) has put together an eclectic and thought-provoking set of 18 stories, from Butler's disturbing but imaginative vision of a burned-out future without language to Martin's Twilight...

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