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The Swarm

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 1 min)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Stephen Hoye, and others
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The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. There is a mothership out beyond the solar system's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system.

The Folk of the Fringe

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, and others
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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.

Hidden Empire: The Empire Duet, Part 2

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Orson Scott Card, Rusty Humphries
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In this sequel to Card's best-selling novel Empire, Averell Torrent has become President of the United States, with enormous political and popular support and, if people only realized it, a tight grip on the reins of both political parties. He has launched America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance.But Captain Bartholomew Coleman, known as Cole to his friends and enemies alike, sees the danger Torrent poses to American democracy.

Empire: The Empire Duet, Part 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
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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.

Eye for Eye

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki

Mick Winger is only 17-and he's already killed over a dozen people. Not on purpose; he never meant to hurt anyone. But when Mick gets angry, people die, even the people he loves the most. Now he's on the run from his own terrible talent and from those who would use his power for their own purposes. But Mick is nor alone. There are others like him. And if he will not join them, they will make him pay.

Laddertop

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 58 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Emily Janice Card
• Narrated By Emily Janice Card, Stefan Rudnicki

Twenty five years ago, the alien Givers came to Earth and bestowed upon the human race the greatest technology ever seen—four giant towers known as Ladders that rise 36,000 miles and culminate in space stations that power the entire planet. Then, for reasons unknown, the Givers disappeared.

Salvage

• UNABRIDGED (48 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki

In a post-apocalyptic America, Deaver Teague makes a living salvaging things left behind from before the war. When he hears some truck drivers talking about a hidden cache of gold in a Mormon temple in flooded Salt Lake City, he enlists some friends to look for it.

This story is included in Orson Scott Card's collection The Folk of the Fringe.

Lovelock: The Mayflower Trilogy, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Kathryn H. Kidd
• Narrated By Emily Rankin
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On the Ark, a colonyship bound outward across the stars, not everyone is a volunteer - or even human. Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered from conception to be the perfect servant: intelligent, agile, and devoted to his owner. He is a "witness", privileged to spend his days and nights recording the life of one of Earth’s most brilliant scientists via digital devices implanted behind his eyes. But Lovelock is something special among witnesses. He’s a little smarter than most humans: smart enough to break through some of his conditioning, smart enough to feel the bonds of slavery - and want freedom.

Invasive Procedures

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
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George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane. He has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but also to "improve" people - make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly...and make them compliant to his will.

Hart's Hope

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Carrington Macduffie

Enter the city of Hart's Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his people. Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now Queen by her father's death, to marry him, raping her to consummate the marriage.

Sarah: Women of Genesis

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Gabrielle de Cuir
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Best-selling author Orson Scott Card tells the story of a unique woman, one who is beautiful, tough, smart, and resourceful. Sarah takes on vivid reality as a woman desirable to kings, a devoted wife, and a faithful follower of the God of Abraham, chosen to experience an incomparable miracle.

Lost Boys

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki

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.

Treasure Box

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
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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.

Starfire

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 1 min)
• By B.V. Larson
• Narrated By Edoardo Ballerini
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On June 30, 1908, an object fell from the sky, releasing more energy than a thousand Hiroshima bombs. A Siberian forest was flattened, but the strike left no significant crater. The anomaly came to be known as the Tunguska Event, and scientists have never agreed whether it was the largest meteor strike in recorded history - or something else. Alien artifacts have been uncovered since the 1908 event, and a new star drive is discovered.

Homebody

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
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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.

Wyrms

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Emily Janice Card
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The sphere is alien in origin, but has been controlled by Man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this constructed 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.

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Christopher Cazenove, Gabrielle de Cuir, and others
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In a not-too-distant future that is not quite ours, there has been a major scientific breakthrough. It is a way to open windows into the past, permitting historical researchers to view, but not participate, in the events of the past.

In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.

Pathfinder: Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Kirby Heyborne, Don Leslie, and others
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Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg’s strange talent for seeing the paths of people’s pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him - secrets about Rigg’s own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain.

Treason

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
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Lanik Mueller is a "rad" - radical regenerative - a freak who can regenerate injured flesh...and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. On a planet without hard metals, or the means of escape, iron offers the promise of freedom through the chance to build a spacecraft. But it is a promise which may never be fulfilled, as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination.

Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir
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Why we think it’s a great listen: It’s easy to say that when it comes to sci-fi you either love it or you hate it. But with Ender’s Game, it seems to be you either love it or you love it.... 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.

Keeper of Dreams, Volume 1: Atlantis and Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Harlan Ellison, Stefan Rudnicki, and others

This huge new collection of the short stories of one of science fiction's most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. The volume contains 24 stories, Card's new introductions for each story, and commentary on his life and work.

The Fringe

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 7 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stephen Hoye

In a postapocalyptic America, Timothy Carpenter is a teacher in a farming community. When he discovers the farm foreman and other men are stealing food, he reports them to the authorities - an action that could cost him his life.

Hamlet’s Father

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki

We all know Shakespeare’s classic ghost story—the young prince Hamlet’s dead father appears to him, demanding vengeance upon Hamlet’s uncle Claudius, who has usurped the throne and, to add insult to injury, married Hamlet’s mother.

Keeper of Dreams, Volume 3: Feed the Baby of Love and Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki

Volume Three of Orson Scott Card's Keeper of Dreams includes an eclectic mix of work from the award-winning author, including the literary short story, "Feed the Baby of Love", and four of the author's Mormon stories. Together, the three volumes of Keeper of Dreams comprise nearly every story Card has written since the publication of Maps in a Mirror.