Orson Scott Card Books in Order

Exiled from his family after his regenerative powers become uncontrollable, Lanik Mueller travels a prison planet whose rival clans trade specialized talents for iron. His search for belonging exposes the forces keeping their world divided.

These interconnected science fiction stories explore life on Capitol, the center of a spacefaring empire. Artificial sleep, altered memories and political power shape the choices of people living within a civilization struggling with its own weaknesses.

Jason Worthing possesses a forbidden ability to read minds in a society that executes telepaths. His dangerous gift brings him to Abner Doon's attention and draws him into plans involving interstellar travel, suspended animation and colonization.

Card edits an illustrated anthology of dragon stories by different writers. The creatures appear in varied forms, from a boy's companion to a force concealed within a teacher, bringing human desires into encounters with magic.

Raised in the isolated Songhouse, Ansset develops a voice capable of amplifying his listeners' deepest emotions. Summoned to an emperor's court, the young singer faces the dangers of a gift that can comfort rulers or destroy them.

This anthology edited by Card gathers fantasy stories about dragons and their encounters with humans. Contributions include a traveler confronted with three dangerous wishes and a man drawn by butterflies toward a mysterious abandoned city.

Eleven stories range across science fiction and fantasy, including the original tale of Ender's training and an isolated musical prodigy. Their characters confront unusual societies, dangerous gifts and rules that restrict what they may become.

A rebellion replaces a brutal king, but the victorious ruler's treatment of the former king's daughter creates another enemy. In a realm where magic demands blood, political conquest becomes entangled with personal vengeance and supernatural power.

Telepath Jason Worthing leads settlers toward a world he hopes will escape his former civilization's stagnation. Suspended animation stretches his life across generations, confronting him with the consequences of the society he helped to establish.

Abandoned by her father in industrial Manchester, Dinah Kirkham helps support her struggling family. Her encounter with Mormon missionaries opens the possibility of a new faith and a journey to America, where further personal trials await.

Young Ender Wiggin is recruited to an orbital military school to prepare for humanity's war against alien invaders. Competitive training and isolation test his tactical gifts while adults try to shape him into their ideal commander.

After war, disease and environmental upheaval devastate America, scattered survivors try to rebuild communities in the remaining habitable regions. These linked stories follow people struggling to preserve cooperation, belief and human connection amid the ruins.

Long after his original war, Ender Wiggin travels as a Speaker for the Dead. The discovery of another alien species, followed by human deaths, draws him toward a mystery rooted in the difficulty of understanding other lives.

Born on an American frontier where ordinary people possess supernatural knacks, Alvin is a seventh son with unusual potential. While his family protects him, a destructive power seeks to prevent him from becoming a Maker.

Fifteen-year-old Patience serves a usurper despite her family's claim to the throne. A prophecy connects her to her world's salvation or destruction, drawing her into a journey toward an ancient power at the planet's heart.

This writing guide examines how to create characters and reveal them through dialogue, action and narrative choices. Card discusses major and minor roles, viewpoint and the techniques that help readers understand a fictional person's inner life.

Alvin and his brother become caught between Native resistance and the expanding frontier. Ta-Kumsaw's determination to fight and his brother's prophetic vision present different responses to dispossession in an America where magical knacks influence events.

Alvin returns to his birthplace to apprentice under blacksmith Makepeace. Learning a trade becomes inseparable from understanding his rare ability as a Maker, while destructive forces continue to interfere with his efforts to master it.

A deep-sea drilling crew joins a military operation to recover a sunken nuclear submarine. Engineer Lindsay Brigman's encounter with an unknown underwater intelligence complicates the mission as distrust and the threat of international conflict grow.

Card explains how to build speculative worlds, establish rules for science and magic, and develop stories from characters and ideas. The guide also covers genre markets, submitting work and the practical process of seeking publication.

Eleven unsettling stories explore transformations, threats and disturbing changes in familiar lives. Drawn from Card's short fiction, the collection includes tales involving memories, dangerous games and altered bodies, placing personal identity under pressure from the unexpected.

Edited by Card, this anthology gathers science fiction stories from the 1980s, including work by Pat Murphy, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling. Its varied futures examine technology, intelligence and encounters that challenge human assumptions.

Three intelligent species share Lusitania, but a virus essential to one species is lethal to humans. When the Starways Congress orders the planet destroyed, Ender and his allies confront a crisis involving survival, understanding and moral responsibility.

These stories consider death, faith, holiness and the unsettling possibilities of miracles. Including 'Eye for Eye' and 'Mortal Gods,' the collection places extraordinary experiences alongside human frailty and questions about the meaning of belief and mortality.

Seven science fiction stories explore possible human futures and the instability of identity. Tales involving technological change, unfamiliar societies and personal struggle include 'A Thousand Deaths,' 'Dogwalker' and 'The Originist,' collected from Card's shorter work.

Step Fletcher moves his family to North Carolina for a software job, but his son Stevie withdraws into friendships nobody else can see. As local boys disappear, the family's ordinary difficulties take on a frightening dimension.

This collection brings together forty-six stories spanning science fiction, fantasy and horror, accompanied by personal essays. Familiar tales and experimental pieces explore unusual societies, moral choices and ideas that also developed into some of Card's novels.

On Harmony, a failing artificial intelligence has long prevented humanity from repeating Earth's destructive wars. Young Nafai becomes involved in its plans while his divided family and the city of Basilica face growing political danger.

Essays, speeches and reviews examine the relationship between Mormon faith, storytelling and moral responsibility. Card considers religious culture, the Book of Mormon and the work of writing, connecting questions of belief with the choices storytellers make.

Ten fantasy tales and fables bring music, magic and transformed lives into contact with human hopes. Including 'Unaccompanied Sonata' and 'The Porcelain Salamander,' the collection explores strange bargains and encounters beyond the rules of everyday experience.

As Harmony's protective Oversoul weakens, General Moozh assembles an army using forbidden technology and turns toward Basilica. Rasa and her allies must navigate the city's turmoil while Wetchik's family becomes entangled in the Oversoul's plans.

Engineered to serve and record a scientist's life, the capuchin monkey Lovelock accompanies her on an interstellar voyage. His enhanced intelligence begins to overcome his conditioning, forcing him to confront the difference between devotion and freedom.

Guided by the Oversoul, Nafai and his extended family cross Harmony toward a hidden spaceport. Their journey through dangerous terrain is complicated by reluctant travelers whose resentment threatens the group's attempt to reach the ships.

Returning to Vigor Church as a journeyman smith, Alvin tries to teach others the skills needed to build his envisioned Crystal City. Enemies left behind and the Unmaker's influence threaten his work and growing community.

Centuries after humanity's return to Earth, Shedemei watches its descendants from an orbiting ship. The damaged Oversoul still seeks the intelligence that can repair it, while troubling dreams draw her attention to events on the planet.

Nafai and Elemak's rivalry follows their family aboard the ship returning to Earth. Competing plans to awaken from suspended animation early threaten to turn the children into instruments of a struggle over the new settlement's future.

With Lusitania threatened and Jane facing the loss of the network that sustains her, Ender's unusual younger counterparts join a desperate effort. They seek new worlds, political allies and a way to preserve a disembodied intelligence.

Scientists in a damaged future use technology to observe the past, seeking a way to prevent humanity's decline. Christopher Columbus's voyages become the focus of a plan that raises troubling questions about changing history and erasing lives.

Wealthy, lonely Quentin Fears marries Madeleine after a brief courtship and visits her family's imposing mansion. Her strange relatives and insistence that he open an inheritance box draw him toward a mystery with supernatural dangers.

This fictional retelling of Moses' life follows a man raised in Pharaoh's household who must confront the enslavement of his people. Aaron, Miriam and other family members share the struggles of interpreting and acting upon God's demands.

Alvin travels through New England while Peggy heads south, hoping to avert a future war over slavery. Their separate efforts bring them into societies divided by power, prejudice and conflicting visions of what America should become.

Grieving the loss of his daughter, Don Lark begins restoring a dilapidated Victorian mansion. Neighbors warn him to abandon the project, while a woman living inside draws him closer to the house's supernatural secrets and violent history.

Years after discovering a sleeping princess in a Carpathian forest, American graduate student Ivan returns and awakens her. His kiss carries him into a medieval world, where unfamiliar customs and a threatening dark power complicate their relationship.

Bean survives Rotterdam's streets through intelligence rather than strength, attracting the attention of Battle School recruiters. Sent into orbit to train against an alien threat, he meets Ender Wiggin and becomes part of his military team.

This illustrated adult fairy tale follows a royal family whose medieval setting reflects recognizable modern problems. Nathan Pinnock's paintings introduce contemporary objects into the fantasy world, accompanying Card's examination of family relationships through a storybook framework.

Raised in Ur with a future as a priestess, Sarai encounters Abram and chooses a different destiny. This fictional account of Sarah's life explores her marriage, childlessness and changing faith within the world of biblical Genesis.

Headstrong, motherless Rebekah marries Isaac and enters a family shaped by religious commitments and longstanding rivalries. As divisions between Isaac and Ishmael give way to conflicts involving Jacob and Esau, she struggles to understand her role.

After the Formic War, Earth's nations compete for the talents of Battle School graduates. Bean escapes an assassination attempt while his former comrades are abducted, forcing him to confront Achilles and consider an alliance with Peter Wiggin.

These shorter stories revisit the Ender universe from several points in its history. Alongside the original Ender's Game novella, the collection explores John Paul Wiggin's childhood and Ender's later encounter with the artificial intelligence Jane.

Peter Wiggin brings the dangerous Achilles into his political circle, alarming Bean and Petra. As the pair hide from their enemy and contemplate having children, Bean's engineered genes make their hopes for a family especially uncertain.

Doug Chiang's illustrated science fiction world becomes the setting for a conflict among humans, robots and other beings. On Orpheus, technologically powerful machines confront humanity and strange creatures in a civilization shaped by alien intervention.

In Nueva Barcelona, Alvin and his young companion encounter a community threatened by disease and oppression. His Maker powers draw him into an effort to lead people toward freedom and establish the refuge he envisions as the Crystal City.

Card's poetry collection gathers verse in sections devoted to hunger, love and death. Personal subjects, including family relationships and grief, sit beside imaginative settings, offering another form for concerns that also appear in his fiction.

When Jacob arrives after fleeing Esau, sisters Rachel and Leah see very different possibilities in him. Leah quietly loves the man who favors her beautiful sister, while their family's arrangements complicate courtship, loyalty and hopes for marriage.

After Zanna's older brother dies before Christmas, the picture she made for him becomes a lasting family keepsake. This holiday story follows the ways a child's gift preserves memory and helps a grieving family express its love.

Abandoned as a baby and raised in a Los Angeles neighborhood, Mack grows up with unusual powers. Discovering an unseen house and a passage into another world, he investigates his origins as events there affect the people around him.

Bean's relentless physical growth threatens his life as he and Petra worry about their children. Meanwhile, Peter Wiggin seeks a united world government, facing opposition from former Battle School classmates who have become powerful national leaders.

Political divisions in a near-future United States erupt into a second civil war. Armed conflict and advanced military technology transform the struggle between opposing factions, forcing Americans to confront the consequences of their increasingly hostile ideological loyalties.

Tony Stark’s early life unfolds in this reimagining of Iron Man’s origins. Following the beginnings of the inventor who becomes an armored hero, the collected story explores the circumstances that shape his path toward a remarkable future.

Battle School forbids religious observance, but Dink Meeker's small holiday gesture challenges that rule. The resulting dispute draws students and teachers into a conflict over faith and conformity, with Ender and Zeck Morgan confronting difficult choices.

Geneticist George Galen develops a virus intended to alter human DNA, presenting radical possibilities for healing and enhancement. His secret experiments turn that promise into a dangerous medical threat, raising questions about who controls the transformation of humanity.

Todd dreams of becoming an astronaut, then discovers that reaching another world may begin in his own backyard. An encounter with an alien draws his family into a rescue involving visitors whose powers change across worlds.

After the war, Ender leaves Earth on his first voyage to a former Formic colony. His journey begins a new phase of life among human settlers, extending the story beyond Battle School and the battles that defined his childhood.

This collection brings together Card's short fiction across science fiction, fantasy and mainstream settings. Introductions to the individual stories discuss their origins and the author's experiences, connecting the varied narratives with reflections on his life and writing.

Runnel leaves his peasant home and becomes a servant in a city ruled by water magic. His employer's forbidden association with stone magic introduces him to an old feud and forces him to confront his own unexplored talents.

Tony Stark survives an early test of his armor and continues developing the technology that could make him Iron Man. With Rhodes drawn into his plans, new threats test whether their developing fighting machine can withstand the dangers ahead.

After America's civil war, President Averell Torrent pursues ambitions that reach beyond its borders. A spreading African epidemic and a quarantine become part of the struggle, while Cole Coleman works to protect relief efforts and scientists investigating the virus.

Rigg can see the paths people left in the past, a gift his father trained him to conceal. After his father's death, revelations about his identity draw him toward rival factions and the possibility of changing history.

This writing reference combines guidance on constructing and selling speculative fiction with material for building fantasy worlds. Topics include story ideas, characters, historical cultures, mythology, magic, creatures, clothing and weapons, connecting practical craft with setting research.

When an alien ship heads toward Earth, surviving asteroid miners resist its advance. As the Formic invasion overwhelms human defenses, Mazer Rackham and an elite police force attempt to stop an enemy capable of destroying humanity.

This prose reworking of Shakespeare's tragedy changes Hamlet's relationship with his father and his attitude toward Claudius. The prince's pursuit of revenge unfolds against altered motives and concealed history, recasting the familiar events of the Danish court.

Alien benefactors have left Earth enormous orbital power stations that only children can maintain. Best friends Robbi and Azure enter the competitive training academy, hoping to qualify for work aboard the mysterious structures in this manga adventure.

Danny North grows up among a hidden family of mages, apparently lacking the talents his relatives possess. The emergence of a forbidden kind of magic makes him dangerous to his own family and forces him beyond their isolated community.

A family mining ship in the Kuiper Belt detects a fast-moving alien vessel approaching the solar system. Its crew must recognize the danger and try to warn Earth amid rivalries with powerful corporate mining interests.

Rigg, Umbo and Param cross the Wall into another wallfold, where strange dangers complicate their journey. An untrustworthy humanoid machine and an approaching destructive force challenge their friendship and their ability to use the past to protect the future.

Bean travels near light speed with three children who share his extraordinary intelligence and fatal growth disorder. As their own ship deteriorates, a derelict Formic vessel offers resources and mysteries that may change their prospects for survival.

An alien ship advances through the solar system, destroying human vessels and exposing the weakness of Earth's scattered defenses. Miners and other survivors attempt to resist while a largely unprepared humanity faces the beginning of the Formic invasion.

Edited by Card, this essay collection examines Ender's Game through literary, personal and military perspectives. Contributors discuss leadership, childhood, survival and storytelling, while Card adds material about the novel's development and the thinking behind its imagined world.

Robbi reaches the orbital station after completing her training, joining children who maintain Earth's alien-built power network through robotic links. Unusual dreams about the absent Givers complicate her work while Azure continues the struggle to qualify below.

This short story reimagines the origins of Oz through the family of L. Frank Baum. It presents experiences involving the author's son as events that his father transforms into fiction, connecting an imagined reality with familiar fantasy storytelling.

Danny North attends high school while carrying gate-making power that his family wants to control. Across the worlds, Wad faces the consequences of lost magic, as Danny investigates the deeper responsibilities and dangers of the Great Gates.

With Formic forces landing in China, humanity struggles to organize a response to invasion. Communications failures and divided defenses leave Earth vulnerable as an encounter first detected by distant miners becomes a war fought on the planet itself.

Rigg, Umbo and Param face the knowledge that visitors from Earth will destroy their world. Their powers over time offer a chance to alter that future, but changing the past requires them to navigate conflicting possibilities and consequences.

Danny North's survival as a Gate Mage threatens the balance among magical families exiled on Earth. After confronting the Gate Thief, he discovers that opening connections to Westil may expose both worlds to an enemy whose danger he underestimated.

Humanity has repelled a Formic scout, but a much larger invasion approaches the solar system. Bingwen, Mazer Rackham, Victor Delgado, and Lem Jukes work toward effective defenses while political ambition and competing interests undermine the newly organized forces.

After the Formic wars, Fleet School trains exceptional children to lead humanity's expanding colonies. Gifted Dabeet Ochoa assumes he has no chance of admission until a visit from Graff raises questions about his future and his connections to the Fleet.

Two scientists studying small-town genetic patterns encounter a community divided into rival congregations. A decades-old argument over casting the baby Jesus in a Christmas pageant still shapes local loyalties, complicating research and the possibility of reconciliation.

Four centuries after humanity's extinction during an alien war, a small group of humans awakens on a devastated Earth. Facing a mission they barely comprehend, they must navigate an unfamiliar planet and the intentions of those responsible for their return.

Fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast can find lost objects, but returning them often gets him accused of theft. His friend sees potential in the ability, while a detective investigating a missing girl asks him to put it to more consequential use.

A Formic mothership waits at the edge of the solar system, threatening an Earth that barely survived its scout's arrival. Divided nations and corporations must overcome their rivalries to build an effective defense against the approaching invasion.

Ryan Burke's disrupted family home becomes a duplex, and the girl he likes moves into the other half. Her mother's fears about people watching them initially seem excessive, until Ryan notices evidence that the threat may be real.

The descendants of Ender and Bean confront the descolada virus, whose escape from Lusitania could devastate humanity's inhabited worlds. With three intelligent species sharing the threatened planet, finding an alternative to destruction becomes a problem of survival and responsibility.

Laz can move his consciousness between alternate versions of himself, until he wakes as a clone on an apparently abandoned Earth. Surrounded by dead copies, he must discover who awakened him and whether another sleeping survivor holds answers.

Laz has helped humanity survive on a new planet by shifting between parallel consciousnesses. The discovery of further worlds brings an expanding conflict, forcing him to confront an interdimensional war that threatens the future he worked to secure.

Eight stories explore the people and conflicts surrounding Ender Wiggin, from the original Ender’s Game story to other corners of his universe. Military leaders, students, and family members face choices that shape humanity’s struggle for survival.

Alvin continues his journey as a Maker, encountering persecuted people whose unusual gifts put them in danger. Learning when and how to use his own powers becomes essential as darkness threatens the people and future of the Crystal City.

Four hundred years after humanity’s extinction in an alien war, a small group of people awakens on a devastated Earth. Their return is tied to a weapon left by one combatant, and an uncertain mission could determine the conflict’s outcome.

War and forbidden magic shape a realm threatened by the Darkspawn in this original comic set in the Dragon Age world. Its characters face dangerous conflicts as the struggle against those creatures places lives and loyalties at risk.