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Ben Bova and Orson Scott Card easily make the short list of top living science fiction and fantasy writers. Both authors have received wide praise from critics and Audible customers, whose endorsement speaks volumes on the importance of their works in such a competitive genre. But did you know that they are also good friends, and that Ben Bova helped launch Orson Scott Card's writing career?


The year was 1977, and aspiring writer Scott Card penned a short story called "Ender's Game", which he shopped around to various literary journals without success. Recognizing its merits, Ben Bova published the piece in Analog magazine, inaugurating a brilliant career that has since expanded to include many published novels, short stories, and poems.


Both authors are fans of literature in audio, so we thought it'd be a great idea to get them together for a chat with producer and narrator of their works, Stefan Rudnicki. Not only did they agree to the interview, they agreed to answer questions from fans at Audible. Check out the interview below, and continue browsing for more Bova and Scott Card you may have missed. Bova's latest, The Aftermath, has just been released. Stay tuned for new Scott Card coming in October.

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  • Ben Bova and Orson Scott Card: The Audible Interview
    Written by: Ben Bova, Orson Scott Card
    3.79 (240 ratings)
    Acclaimed science-fiction authors Orson Scott Card and Ben Bova, along with their shared audiobook producer and occasional narrator Stefan Rudnicki, discuss audiobooks and their works in a joint interview. The authors touch on their thoughts on audiobooks vs. print editions, the effect of technology on literature, religion, science, and many other fascinating topics sure to intrigue both Card and Bova fans, as well as all audiobook enthusiasts.
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  • The Aftermath: Book Four of The Asteroid Wars
    Written by: Ben Bova
    Narrated by: Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye, Stefan Rudnicki
    3.82 (85 ratings)
    When the spaceship Viking encounters a variety of adversaries in the Asteroid Belt - including a prospector and his family, a cyborg, the solar system's greatest sculptor, and an evil industrialist - a confrontation begins that transforms the human solar system.
    UNABRIDGED 12 hrs and 2 mins
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  • The Silent War: Book Three of The Asteroid Wars
    Written by: Ben Bova
    Narrated by: Amanda Karr, Christian Noble, cast
    3.91 (127 ratings)
    When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources of the Asteroid Belt itself. Fighting escalates and the lines between commerce and politics, boardroom and bedroom blur. And the keys to victory will include physics, nanotechnology, and cold hard cash.
    UNABRIDGED 12 hrs and 55 mins
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  • The Rock Rats: Book Two of The Asteroid Wars
    Written by: Ben Bova
    Narrated by: Ira Claffey, Amanda Karr, cast
    3.83 (131 ratings)
    Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead, but his protege, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her, for Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho, and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife.
    UNABRIDGED 10 hrs and 10 mins
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  • The Precipice: Book One of The Asteroid Wars
    Written by: Ben Bova
    Narrated by: Scott Brick, Amanda Karr, cast
    3.81 (179 ratings)
    Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph, he does not care if Earth perishes in the process.
    UNABRIDGED 12 hrs and 23 mins
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  • Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, more
    4.63 (6186 ratings)
    The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation.
    UNABRIDGED 11 hrs and 5 mins
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  • Speaker for the Dead
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki, more
    4.35 (2516 ratings)
    In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. But again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
    UNABRIDGED 14 hrs and 9 mins
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  • Xenocide
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki
    4.12 (1530 ratings)
    Xenocide is the third installment of the Ender series. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to transform into adults.
    UNABRIDGED 20 hrs and 15 mins
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  • Children of the Mind
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein
    4.10 (1295 ratings)
    The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: a large colony of humans; the Pequeninos; and the Hive Queen, who was brought there by Ender Wiggin. Once again, the enemy (the Starways Congress) has gathered a fleet and is threatening to destroy Lusitania. Ender's oldest friend, Jane, an evolved computer intelligence, is trying to save the three sentient species of Lusitania, but the Starways Congress is destroying the computer world she lives in.
    UNABRIDGED 13 hrs and 24 mins
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  • Ender's Shadow
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, a Full Cast
    4.62 (1391 ratings)
    Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this 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. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters.
    UNABRIDGED 15 hrs and 42 mins
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  • Shadow of the Hegemon
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir
    4.31 (979 ratings)
    Orson Scott Card tells a tale long awaited by millions of fans: the story of how Bean turned away from his first friend, Ender, and became the tactical genius who won the Earth for Ender's brother, Peter, who became the Hegemon.
    UNABRIDGED 12 hrs and 51 mins
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  • Shadow Puppets
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki, more
    4.25 (838 ratings)
    Best selling SF author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth.

    Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School.

    UNABRIDGED 10 hrs and 46 mins
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  • Pretty Boy
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Scott Brick
    3.57 (47 ratings)
    How do you systematically destroy a child with love? It's not something that any parent aspires to do, yet a surprising number come perilously close to achieving it.
    UNABRIDGED 47 mins
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  • Treasure Box
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    3.60 (149 ratings)
    A shattering childhood tragedy left Quentin Fears devastated. But the wealthy, enigmatic recluse has experienced the extraordinarily unexpected: love at first sight, with Madeleine. 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.
    UNABRIDGED 9 hrs and 40 mins
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  • Folk of the Fringe
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, Richard Brewer, more
    3.35 (100 ratings)
    Only a few nuclear weapons fell. But in the chaos of famine and plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret. The climate has changed, and the lake has filled up. There, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.
    UNABRIDGED 10 hrs and 38 mins
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  • Homebody
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    3.66 (171 ratings)
    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.
    UNABRIDGED 10 hrs and 50 mins
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  • Empire
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    3.82 (433 ratings)
    Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science-fiction and fantasy works. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near-future scenario: a new American Civil War. The American Empire has grown too fast, the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point, and the war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war.
    UNABRIDGED 11 hrs and 22 mins
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  • Magic Street
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Mirron E. Willis
    3.57 (311 ratings)
    Living 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 surrounded by boisterous characters and yet deeply alone.
    UNABRIDGED 13 hrs and 27 mins
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  • The Worthing Saga
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Scott Brick
    3.95 (294 ratings)
    It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful, they lived their lives at the rate of one year every 10. Some created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put into motion. It allowed interstellar empires to be built.
    UNABRIDGED 18 hrs and 34 mins
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  • Lost Boys
    Written by: Orson Scott Card
    Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    3.77 (302 ratings)
    Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children move to Steuben, North Carolina, with high hopes. But Step's new job with a software company turns out to be a snake pit, and 8-year-old Stevie's school is worse. As Stevie retreats into himself, focusing more and more on a mysterious computer game and a growing troop of imaginary friends, the Fletchers' concern turns to terror.
    UNABRIDGED 16 hrs and 6 mins
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