Book Preview I waited for the green again. That scant little flash of green as the sun winks out behind the horizon. That’s where the magic was. In the flash. That’s what she said. That’s what she always said. Not that I believe in magic. I’d like to, but I know better. The world isn’t … Read more
Book Preview Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster ebook. Get a FREE ebook when you join our mailing list. Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Click below to sign up and see terms and conditions. Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster ebook. … Read more
Book Preview Victor didn’t go to the airlock to see Alejandra leave the family forever, to marry into the Italian clan. He didn’t trust himself to say good-bye to his best friend, not without revealing how close he had come to disgracing the family by falling in love with someone in his own asteroid-mining ship. … Read more
Book Preview The starship Herodotus left Earth in 2210 with four passengers. It accelerated nearly to lightspeed as quickly as it could, and then stayed at that speed, letting relativity do its work. On Herodotus, just over five years had passed; it had been 421 years on Earth. On Herodotus, the three thirteen-month-old babies had … Read more
Book Preview To: jpwiggin@gso.nc.pub, twiggin@uncg.edu From: hgraff%educadmin@ifcom.gov Subj: When Andrew Returns Home Dear John Paul and Theresa Wiggin, You understand that during the recent attempt by the Warsaw Pact to take over the International Fleet, our sole concern at EducAdmin was the safety of the children. Now we are finally able to begin working out … Read more
Book Preview Orson Scott Card A War of Gifts An Ender Story To Tom Ruby, who has kept the faith in and out of Battle School 1 SAINT NICK Zeck Morgan sat attentively on the front row of the … Read more
Book Preview Orson Scott Card – Shadow of the Giant 1. MANDATE OF HEAVEN 14. VIRLOMI’S VISITORS From: Graff%pilgrimage@colmin.gov To: Soup%battleboys@strategyandplanning.han.gov Re: Free Vacation Offer Destination of your choice in the known universe. And we pick you up! Han Tzu waited until the armored car was completely out of sight before he ventured out into … Read more
Book Preview First Meetings in the Enderverse THE POLISH BOY John Paul hated school. His Mother did her best, but how could she possibly teach anything to him when she had eight other children—six of them to teach, two of them to tend because they were mere babies? What John Paul hated most was the … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html It is made of 1.0. when I finished this one 2.0 was published, but this one is better. There are same places to be checked with paper book. They are marked with [?]. Some things were corrected using 2.0 version. First three chapters were taken from … Read more
Book Preview To: Chamrajnagar%sacredriver@ifcom.gov From: Locke%espinoza@polnet.gov Re: What are you doing to protect the children? Dear Admiral Chamrajnagar, I was given your idname by a mutual friend who once worked for you but now is a glorified dispatcher — I’m sure you know whom I mean. I realize that your primary responsibility now is not … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Ender’s Shadow: A Parallel Novel to Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender’s Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew. With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender’s Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Queen to life. Now … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html The millennia-long saga of Andrew Wiggin called Ender, called The Speaker For the Dead called The Xenocide continues …. On the world Lusitania there are now three sapient races-the Pequeninos, who evolved there; Humans, who came to colonize; and a Hive Queen and her children brought … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Nebula and Hugo Award Winner Three thousand planet-bound years have fled since Ender Wiggin won humanity’s war with the Buggers by totally destroying them. Ender remains young-travelling the stars at relativistic speeds, a hundred years or more might pass while he experiences a month-long voyage. In … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Andrew “Ender” Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all … Read more
Book Preview TRUMAN CAPOTEIn Cold Blood Truman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America’s postwar generation. He sustained … Read more
Book Preview PRAISE FOR RAMSEY CAMPBELL ‘Britain’s most respected living horror writer’ Oxford Companion to English Literature ‘Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today’ Time Out ‘Campbell is literate in a field which has attracted too many comic-book intellects, cool in a field where too many writers – myself included – tend toward … Read more
Book Preview Campbell, Ramsey – The Parasite Ramsey Campbell is the most respected living horror writer in Britain today. He has received the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award three times, and the British Fantasy Award seven times – more awards for horror fiction than any other writer. He was born in Liverpool in … Read more