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Ender Wiggin

Ender's Game John Harris	Ender's Shadow Lisa Falkenstern
Xenocide John Harris	Speaker for the Dead John Harris
Children of the Mind John Harris	Shadow of the Hedgemon Bob Warner
Shadow Puppets Bob Warner	First Meetings Julie Bell
Shadow of the Giant Bob Warner	War of Gifts John Harris

Ender's Game (1985)

Ender's Game is a science fiction novel that tells the story of Andrew Wiggin(nicknamed Ender by his sister, Valentine.) The story takes place on Earth in the future. Earth has been attacked twice by an alien species called Buggers, nearly destroying the human race. Mankind begins training young geniuses to become soldiers and commanders to fight in Earth's defence if the Buggers should ever attack again. Ender is extremely intelligent, and at the age of six years old, he goes to Battle School to be trained. Ender quickly rises to the top in Battle School and begins training in order to command Earth's fleet.

Speaker for the Dead (1985)

Three thousand Earth years have passed since Ender defeated an entire race of sentient beings. No one would ever have guessed that he still lived - travelling through space. In that time his name has become anathema, for he is the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings. No other has been found - until Lusitania is discovered.

Xenocide (1991)

Ender and Valentine Wiggin are brother and sister who both share the gift of genius. The monstrous Starways Congress has sent a warfleet to their home planet of Lusitania, containing two alien species and the deadliest virus ever known. They have also issued the order to destroy the planet.

Children of the Mind (1996)

Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. All are in danger from the Starways Congress. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence can save them - Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves.

Ender's Shadow (1999)
Shadow of the Hegemon (2000)

Ender and his sister Valentine are only present in the background of this novel, which follows the story of Bean and Peter Wiggin, who must defeat Achilles (who is holding Petra).

Shadow Puppets (2002)
First Meetings (2002)

First Meetings is a collection of three novellas-plus the original "Ender's Game"-that 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 novella written especially for this collection-a brilliant but insufferably arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now an American university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student named Theresa Brown.
It is many years since the end of the Bugger Wars in "The Investment Counselor." Ender's reputation as a hero and savior has suffered a horrible reversal. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive. Until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide.
Also reprinted here is the original landmark novella, "Ender's Game," which first appeared in 1977.

Shadow of the Giant (2005)
A War of Gifts (2007)

Homecoming

The Memory of Earth Keith Parkinson	The Call of Earth Keith Parkinson
The Ships of Earth Keith Parkinson	Earthfall Keith Parkinson
Earthborn Keith Parkinson

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The Memory of Earth (1992)

The planet called Harmony had been settled by humans nearly 40 million years before. The colony had been placed under the care of an artificial intelligence, the Oversoul, high in orbit. But now the Oversoul itself is in danger - its systems are failing.

The Call of Earth (1993)

A continuation of the story of the planet Harmony and its computer guardian, the Oversoul. Feeling itself to be failing, the Oversoul realizes that it needs the technology of the Lost Earth to achieve its aims. It has already caused Nafai, a teenage boy, to commit murder.

The Ships of Earth (1994)

The third volume in the continuing "Homecoming" series. The guardian computer of the planet Harmony, the Oversoul, feels itself running down after 40 million years and begins to tamper with the lives of the planet's people in order to return to the lost Earth.

Earthfall (1995)

The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars.

Earthborn (1995)

High above the Earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundreds of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below.

Alvin Maker

Seventh Son Dennis Nolan	Red Prophet Dennis Nolan
Prentice Alvin Dennis Nolan	Alvin Journeyman Dennis Nolan
Heartfire Dennis Nolan	The Crystal City Dennis Nolan

Seventh Son (1987)

Amid the deep woods where the Red Man still holds sway, a very special child is born. Young Alvin is the seventh son, and such a boy is destined to become great - perhaps even a man with the enormous powers of a Maker. But even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him.

Red Prophet (1988)

A fantasy of a boy whose journey towards knowledge and power remakes history. Since he saw the white men murder his father, the Red Indian Lolla-Wossiky has been a drunk. His brother wishes to see the whites confined to the eastern lands. But Bill Harrison has more brutal plans for the Red Indians.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

This is the third book about Alvin Maker. He has returned to the town of his birth and is now a blacksmith's apprentice. But he must also learn the arts of a Maker and he hopes that Peggy can help him. But Peggy can forsee only misery, and so Alvin is forced to hide the powers stirring inside him.

Alvin Journeyman (1995)

Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in the isolation, work as a blacksmith and try to teach the knack of being a Maker. But his ancient foe, the Unmaker, has found new hands to do his work of destruction.

Heartfire (1998)
The Crystal City (2003)

In this world where "knacks" abound, Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, is a very special man indeed. He's a Maker; he has the knack of understanding how things are put together, how to create them, repair them, keep them whole, or tear them down. He can heal hearts as well as bones, he build a house, he can calm the waters or blow up a storm. And he can teach his knack to others, to the measure of their own talent.

Alvin has been trying to avert the terrible war that his wife, Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the life-lines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelona as they call it under Spanish occupation. Alvin doesn't know exactly why he's there, but when he and his brother-in-law, Arthur Stuart, find lodgings with a family of abolitionists who know Peggy, he suspects he'll find out soon.
But Nueva Barcelona is about to experience a plague, and Alvin's efforts to protect his friends by keeping them healthy will create more danger than he could ever have suspected. And in saving the poor people of the city, Alvin will be put to the greatest test of his life--a test that will draw on all his power. For the time has come for him to turn to his old friend Tenskwa-Tawa, the Red Prophet who controls the lands to the west of the Mizzippy. Now Alvin must take the first steps on the road to the Crystal City that was shown to him in a vision so long ago.

Mayflower
with Kathryn H. Kidd

Lovelock
Donato

Novels

Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad" - radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh... and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet without hard metals - or the means of escape - iron is power in the race to build a spacecraft.
Iron is the promise of freedom - which may never be fulfilled as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination.
Now charged with a mission of conquest - and exile - Lanik devises a bold and dangerous plan... a quest that may finally break the vicious chain of rivalry and bloodshed that enslaves the people of Treason as the Offworld never could.

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 auidence feels and, by magnifying their emotions, use his voice to heal-or to destroy. When it is discovered that his is the voice that the Emperor has waited decades for, Ansset is summoned to the Imperial Palace on Old Earth. Many fates rest in Ansset's hands, and his songs will soon be put to the test: either to salve the troubled conscience of a conqueror, or drive him, and the universe, into mad chaos.

JUSTICE IS CRUEL But tender mercy is the cruelest of all.
It was for mercy's sake that Palicroval the Fair left you to live after the desecration of your honor ... to live and become great Queen Beauty, whose power makes the very gods tremble and whose mercy is that of the grave. You would lay the world to ruin for your soul's ease, and see the corruption of the heavens for your pain.
But beware Beauty - for though your power is mighty, there is still magic in the Land, and the Hart has bred a son... and the ones who have suffered your vengeance for so long may exact a payment that could split the world asunder.

It is an alien sphere, but one controlled by Man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvation... or the destruction of the cosmos.
Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father before her, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family. For she has learned the true ruler's honor: that duty to one's race is more important than duty to one's self.
But the time for prudence has passed, and that which has slept for ages has awakened. And Patience must journey to the heartsoul of this planet to confront her destiny... and the world's.

The ocean holds many secrets. One of them is trying to tell us something. Deep in the Caribbean Sea, a U.S. nuclear submarine mysteriously spins out of control. When a U.S. Navy SEAL team and the crew of DEEPCORE - an underwater oil drilling station - dive down to investigate, they are trapped at the edge of a vast underwater trench. Now, as the world above stands poised in the brink of nuclear destruction, they prepare to enter THE ABYSS.

For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, eight-year-old Stevie's life there is an unending parade of misery and disaster.
Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further into himself - and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary friends.
But there is something eerie about his loyal, invisible new playmates: each shares the name of a child who has recently vanished from the sleepy Southern town. And terror grows for Step and DeAnne as the truth slowly unfolds. For their son has found something savagely evil ... and it's coming for Stevie next.

A science fiction story that turns into a tale of creating an alternate history, where the Spaniards do not rape and pillage the natives in the Carribean, and where ancient gods seem to rise up before white men as well.

A shattering childhood tragedy left Quentin Fears devastated and unable to cope with the world and its citizens. It didn't, however, prevent him from making millions through brilliant investments. And now the enigmatic recluse has experienced the extraordinarily unexpected: love at first sight.
But a whirlwind courtship and marriage to Madeleine - beautiful, witty, and equally ill-at-ease with reality - is bringing Quentin something other than the bliss he anticipated, for now he must meet his new wife's family.
A bizarre, dysfunctional collection of extreme characters, they are guarding a secret both shocking and terrifying - as is Madeleine herself. And suddenly Quentin Fears must prevent his dream woman from unleashing an ageless malevolence intent on ruling the world.

Damaged Houses
A master craftsman, Don Lark could fix everything except what mattered, his own soul. After tragedy claimed the one thing he loved, he began looking for dilapidated houses to buy, renovate, and resell at a profit-giving these empty shells the second chance at life he denied himself.
Damaged Souls
Then in a quiet Southern town, Lark finds his biggest challenge: a squalid yet sturdy mansion that has suffered decades of abuse at the hands of greedy landlords and transient tenants. While two charming old neighbor ladies ply him with delicious cooking, they offer dire warnings about the house's evil past. But there is something about this building that pushes Lark on, even as its enchantments grow increasingly ominous. Will finishing the house offer Lark redemption, or unleash the darkest forces of damnation upon him?

The moment Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay as still as death. But beneath the foliage a malevolent presence stirred and sent the ten-year-old Ivan scrambling for the safety of Cousin Marek's farm. Now, years later, Ivan is an American graduate student, engaged to be married. Yet he cannot forget that long ago day in the forest - or convince himself it was merely a frightened boy's fantasy. Compelled to return to his native land, Ivan finds the clearing just as he left it. This time he does not run. This time he awakens the beauty with a kiss... and steps into a world that vanished a thousand years ago.

Academy award-winning artist Doug Chiang and best-selling sci-fi author Orson Scott Card join forces for an extraordinary publishing adventure: Robota. An original illustrated science fiction novel, Robota follows the fortunes of a strangely powerful amnesiac named Caps as he navigates an ancient, decaying world in which a dwindling human population battles a society of merciless robot warriors. Aided by talking animals and stalked by terrifying hunter robots, Caps slowly rises to fulfill an awesome destiny. Integrating word and image, Card's masterful storytelling is interwoven with 75 pieces of Chiang's wildly imagined, meticulously rendered art. Packaged in a dramatic metallic case, this unusual and powerful collaboration is tailor-made to thrill.

In a peaceful, prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mack Street is a mystery child who has somehow found a home. Discovered abandoned in an overgrown park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman, Mack comes and goes from family to family–a boy who is at once surrounded by boisterous characters and deeply alone. But while Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange powers, he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he sees, in a thin slice of space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a backyard–and an entryway into an extraordinary world stretching off into an exotic distance of geography, history, and magic.
Passing through the skinny house that no one else can see, Mack is plunged into a realm where time and reality are skewed, a place where what Mack does and sees seem to have strange affects in the “real world” of concrete, cars, commerce, and conflict. Growing into a tall, powerful young man, pursuing a forbidden relationship, and using Shakespeare’s Midsummer’s Night Dream as a guide into the vast, timeless fantasy world, Mack becomes a player in an epic drama. Understanding this drama is Mack’s challenge. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is . . . but why he exists.

The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone.
The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side and militia foot soldiers on the other, devastating the cities and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons, and strategic geniuses of their own.
When the American dream shatters into violence, who can hold the people and the government together? And which side will you be on?

I read "A Planet Called Treason" . . . seems like eons ago. It's strange, weird and absolutely wonderful.

Treason John Harris	Song Master Dennis Nolan
Hart's Hope Dennis Nolan	Saint's
Wyrms Dennis Nolan	The Abyss
Folk of the Fringe	Lost Boys
Pastwatch	Treasure Box
Stone Tables	Homebody
Enchantment Greg Spalenka	Magic Mirror Nathan Andrew Pinnock
Robota Doug Chiang	Magic Street
Empire Bob Warner	Space Boy Lance Card, Illustrator
Invasive Procedures (with Aaron Johnston)	The Hot Sleep Don Maitz