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Decades ago, the Formics - a bug-like alien species - attacked Earth in an attempt to eradicate humanity. The nations of our world united together and sent fleets of military spaceships into the heart of the galaxy, striking back against this enemy. Fleet after fleet of spaceships were sent to the far reaches of known space, traveling for years at light speed, attacking the different Formic worlds. Their mission: defeat the Formics and establish human colonies on the former Formic worlds. These armies depended on the guidance and leadership of a child named Ender Wiggen. The hope of humanity was a twelve-year-old boy who, though a brilliant strategist, thought the war was a nothing more than an elaborate game. Yet the soldiers loyally followed Ender and his squadron of youthful friends, looking to save mankind from the Formics, and to settle new worlds throughout the galaxy...
Authors
Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools. Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts. Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret. For further details, see the author's Wikipedia page. For an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card. http://us.macmillan.com/author/orsons...
