Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew.With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender's Game, a book that expands and compliments the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion.The human race is at War with the "Buggers", an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win.The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth--they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging then into an irresisible force in the high orbital facility called the Battle School.Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean--the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers.Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else's. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older.Bean's desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender......

Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older students, doesn't see it that way. He thinks that giving gifts isn't exactly a religious observation, and on Sinterklaas Day he tucks a present into another student's shoe.
This small act of rebellion sets off a battle royal between the students and the staff, but some surprising alliances form when Ender comes up against a new student, Zeck Morgan. The War over Santa Claus will force everyone to make a choice.

The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered eh destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitble.

Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School. For Earth was at war -- a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth -- they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books, the beloved classic Ender's Game, and its parallel, Ender's Shadow. Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins' right hand. Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family -- something he has never known -- but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies -- old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars.

Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there exited a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret, formed from the vestiges of Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. The climate has changed. The Great Salt Lake has filled up to prehistoric levels. But there, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful organizations, or even by great men alone. It must be renewed by individual men and women, one by one, working together to make a community, a nation, a new America.

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, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move fast enough to meet the threat.

Orson Scott Card presents practical, in-depth instruction on how fiction writers can make the best choices in creating characters and handling viewpoint. The author shows how to put original yet realistic people into fiction.'

故事发生在未来，当时地球已经两次遭遇过虫族的进攻，第二次尤其惨重，而是一个传奇人物马泽·雷汉扭转了战局，地球勉强幸存。国际舰队认为，必须在全世界范围内寻找天才儿童，把他们送到专门训练儿童的空间站（“战斗学校”），把他们塑造成军事奇才，人类方可有存活的希望。
很多儿童都被淘汰了，包括安德的哥哥和姐姐。具有罕见军事天才的安德在6岁的时候被选中，遭到了一轮轮残酷的模拟战斗，在短短几周内就由新兵成长为领袖。然而战斗学校对孩子们来说就是魔窟，为了激发他的能力，教官故意改变游戏规则，不断把他逼到险境里。
但是安德用实力赢得了队友的信任和对手的尊重，他一次次勇敢地去挑战自己的体能极限和心理极限，最终在一次“游戏训练”中，带领着他的小分队消灭了虫族女王，也为人类迎来了一次重生。

The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright.
On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.
Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable.
is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga.

Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of "Ender's Game"--winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. "The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man--or boy--in John Paul Wiggin.... In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection--a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student. "The Investment Counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. 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 Xeoncide. Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender's Game," which first appeared in 1977.

A collection of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card.

Featuring stories from the genre's greatest authors: Isaac Asimov • Arthur C. Clarke • Robert A. Heinlein • Ursula K. Le Guin • Ray Bradbury • Frederik Pohl • Harlan Ellison • George Alec Effinger • Brian W. Aldiss • William Gibson & Michael Swanwick • Theodore Sturgeon • Larry Niven • Robert Silverberg • Harry Turtledove • James Blish • George R. R. Martin • James Patrick Kelly • Karen Joy Fowler • Lloyd Biggle, Jr. • Terry Bisson • Poul Anderson • John Kessel • R.A. Lafferty • C.J. Cherryh • Lisa Goldstein • Edmond Hamilton

In much of the science fiction of the past, the twenty-first century existed only in the writers’ imaginations. Now that it’s here, it’s time to take a look back at the last one hundred years in science fiction through the works of the most celebrated and acclaimed authors of the century—to see where we’ve been and just how far we’ve come.
 
Along with a critical essay by Orson Scott Card reassessing science fiction in the twentieth century, Masterpieces includes short fiction by writers who have forged a permanent place for science fiction in the popular culture of today...and tomorrow. It offers a glimpse of the greatest works that mixed science with fiction in trying to figure out humanity’s place in the universe. Featuring bold, brave, and breathtaking stories, this definitive collection will stand the test of time in both this century and those to come.

Andrew Wiggin, dit Ender, n'est pas un garçon comme les autres. Depuis sa naissance, ses faits et gestes sont observés par l'intermédiaire d'un moniteur greffé dans son cerveau. Car ceux qui l'ont conçu ambitionnent de faire de lui le plus grand général de tous les temps, le seul capable de sauver ses semblables de l'invasion des doryphores. Et alors qu'Ender suit pas à pas le dur chemin de son apprentissage de guerrier, ses créateurs mesurent la gravité de leur choix : en donnant naissance à un monstre, n'ont-ils pas damné l'humanité elle-même ? (back cover)

Pour Bean, l'existence se résume à un seul mot : survivre. Sa fuite, à l'âge d'un an, de la clinique clandestine où il a été conçu artificiellement le conduit droit dans l'enfer des bas-quartiers de Rotterdam, où la violence, la drogue et la prostitution deviennent son quotidien. Grâce à son incroyable intelligence, il s'attire cependant l'attention des pontes de la Flotte Intergalactique, qui voient en lui un nouvel Ender Wiggin. Ender Wiggin, le légendaire gamin surdoué chargé d'orchestrer la contre-attaque contre les formiques. Ender Wiggin, le dernier espoir de l'humanité. Enfin, jusqu'à maintenant, car Bean n'a pas choisi d'intégrer, l'école de guerre pour faire de la figuration.

Après la victoire qui couronne La stratégie Ender comme La stratégie de l'ombre, les petits génies de l'École de guerre sont devenus des héros. Alors qu'Ender a pris la route d'une lointaine planète, Bean et les autres sont renvoyés chez eux, où ils doivent reprendre une existence qu'ils ont quittée dix ans plus tôt. Pourtant, quelqu'un s'inquiète de leur sécurité : Peter Wiggin, le frère d'Ender, a le pressentiment que tous courent un grand danger. Un à un, les compagnons d'Ender disparaissent, tués ou kidnappés. Seul Bean parvient à en réchapper et à identifier la menace surgie de son passé qui pèse, il le sait, sur l'humanité tout entière. Alors même qu'il sort de l'ombre d'Ender, Bean va devoir se plonger dans celle, bien plus dangereuse, de l'Hégémon...

Peter Wiggins, actuel chef du gouvernement de la Terre, commet une terrible erreur en autorisant le sauvetage de son ennemi juré, Achille, jusqu'alors retenu dans une prison chinoise. Peter est maintenant en danger, il doit quitter la planète. Au bout du voyage l'attend une surprise non moins effrayante : l'école de guerre démantelée sert aujourd'hui de base à des comploteurs de toute sorte. Pendant ce temps, Bean doit faire face à la dégradation de son corps. Fruit de manipulations génétiques, il sait qu'il n'en a plus pour longtemps à vivre. Secondé par sa femme Petra, il recherche l'homme qui a modifié ses gènes. Peut-être ce dernier pourra-t-il épargner à l'enfant qu'ils attendent le triste destin que son père...

En parvenant à contrecarrer les plans d'Achille, Bean a évité d'un cheveu un désastre d'une ampleur inégalée. Petra et lui attendent aujourd'hui leur premier enfant. conçu in vitro, mais ils ignorent le sort qu'Achille a réservé aux autres embryons et s'ils portent en eux la maladie génétique dont souffre leur père. Pendant ce temps, une guerre impliquant les autres anciens élèves de l'école de guerre - Alai, Virlomi, Vlad - menace d'éclater.
La Terre ne trouvera cependant son salut que dans l'unité, et celle-ci ne pourra s'incarner que dans un seul homme : Peter Wiggin, l'Hegemon. Bean est-il prêt à conclure un pacte avec le cruel frère d'Ender ?

Ils étaient quatre à bord de l’Hérodote : Bean, le Géant, le stratège inégalable, et ses trois enfants héritiers de la clé d’Anton. Ender, Carlotta et Cincinnatus, trois petits génies condamnés comme leur père à une existence abrégée, que Bean avait arrachés à leur mère et à leur monde dans l’espoir que leur malédiction génétique trouverait un jour son antidote. Cinq ans s’étaient écoulés sur l’Hérodote tandis que le vaisseau filait à une vitesse relativiste, plus de quatre cents ans sur Terre.
Et la Terre les avait oubliés…Leur seul espoir reposait désormais en eux-mêmes, peut-être en ce qu’ils allaient trouver parmi les étoiles, et Bean approchait d’une mort inéluctable. Après La stratégie de l’ombre, L’ombre de l’Hégémon, Les marionnettes de l’ombre et L’ombre du géant, voici venir l’issue de l’épopée.