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Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison

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.

Earth Afire

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki, and others
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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.

Speaker for the Dead

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
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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.

The Gate Thief: Mithermages, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Rankin
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Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of 13 centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can’t control him - and they can’t control him; he is far too powerful. On Westil, Wad is now nearly powerless - he lost everything to Danny in their struggle. Even if he can survive the revenge of his enemies, he must still somehow make peace with the Gatemage Daniel North, for when Danny took that power from Loki, he also took responsibility for the Great Gates.

Earth Unaware

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, and others
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The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador’s telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it’s hard to know what to make of it. It’s massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

El Cavador has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big for the ship. There are claim-jumping corporate ships bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt.

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.

Xenocide

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, and others
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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.

Ender's Shadow

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, a Full Cast
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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.

Ruins: Pathfinder, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Kirby Heyborne, Emily Janice Card
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When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh - a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive - but they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another. But they will have little choice. Because although Rigg can decipher the paths of the past, he can’t yet see the horror that lies ahead: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling toward Garden.

Children of the Mind

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein
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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.

The Lost Gate: Mithermages, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card
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Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different - and that he was different from them. While his cousins were learning how to create the things that commoners called fairies, ghosts, golems, trolls, werewolves, and other such miracles that were the heritage of the North family, Danny worried that he would never show a talent, never form an "outself"....

Shadow of the Hegemon

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir
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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.

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.

Shadows in Flight

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, Scott Brick, and others
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At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children--the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth’s scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten - a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth’s history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come.

Shadow Puppets

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
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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.

Ender in Exile

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, David Birney, Cassandra Campbell, and others
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Andrew Wiggin is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but instead the 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.

Shadow of the Giant

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By David Birney, Scott Brick, Full Cast
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Bean, once the smallest student at the Battle School, and Ender Wiggin's right hand, 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 wishes 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.

Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender’s Game

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card (editor)
• Narrated By Gabrielle de Cuir, Janis Ian, Arthur Morey, and others

Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is a science fiction classic. In Ender’s World almost two dozen writers offer new perspectives on the 1985 novel, along with insights gleaned from other Ender stories that fit within the Ender’s Game chronology. In addition, military strategists Colonel Tom Ruby and Captain John Schmitt offer insight into the human-Formic war.

Lovelock: The Mayflower Trilogy, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Kathryn H. Kidd
• Narrated By Emily Rankin

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.