Audiobooks by Orson Scott Card

Zanna's Gift: A Life in Christmases Audiobook

From the pen of a masterful storyteller comes a touching and inspirational story of love, loss, and the true meaning of Christmas that will take its place beside Richard Paul Evans' Christmas Box trilogy as a timeless classic that will be passed from generation to generation. When the Pullman family lost their eldest son, Ernie, to an unexpected illness just before Christmas, 1938, it was devastating to all of them, but especially to young Suzanna, their four-year-old daughter, who shared a special bond with her big brother. A strangely gifted child, Zanna loved to draw, but Ernie was the only one who was able to see the pictures in the curious patterns she made. Sadly, he did not live to see the Christmas drawing she had made for him that year. This is the story of that gift and how it inspired her and her whole family, generation to generation, to keep alive the spirit of imagination, hope, and love for Christmases to come. Zanna grew up to be a famous artist, but in the hearts of her children and grandchildren, her nieces and nephews, that last painting she made for her big brother was truly her most important work. Christmas after Christmas, as the long decades pass up to the present day, the author allows us to share in the warmth of a family bound together by the transcendent miracle of love. Zanna's life, told in Christmases, will inspire you to keep alive your own family traditions, to share those loving moments with your children and grandchildren for years to come. "Zanna's Gift is a Christmas message for our time: a wise and poignant tale of love and faith."-Sharyn McCrumb, New York Times bestselling author

Orson Scott Card, Scott Richardson (Author), Emily Janice Card, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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Zanna's Gift: A Life in Christmases

When little Zanna's oldest brother died just before Christmas, she was left with the gift she had made for him-a picture that only he would have understood. Every Christmas, Zanna's gift is brought out and displayed as a way of including their lost brother in the celebration. This is the story of the life of that family, and of the many gifts they gave each other that could only be understood with love.

Orson Scott Card (Author), Emily Janice Card, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quartet

Orson Scott Card (Author), Amanda Karr, Gabrielle De Cuir, John Rubinstein, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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Wyrms

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 either salvation or destruction. Patience is the only daughter of the rightful heptarch, but she, like her father, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family, for she believes that duty to one's race is more important than duty to one's self. But the time for prudence has passed, and Patience must journey to the heart-soul of this planet to confront her own destiny and her world's.

Orson Scott Card (Author), Emily Janice Card (Narrator)

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Wyrms

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 salvation—or eternal destruction of the cosmos. Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family; for she believes that duty to one's race is more important than duty to one's self. But the time for prudence has passed, and Patience must journey to the heartsoul of the planet with a small band of companions to confront her destiny—and the destiny of her world. Wyrms is a science fiction epic with mythological style that is sure to enchant listeners with its unique world and premise.

Orson Scott Card (Author), Emily Janice Card (Narrator)

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Writers of the Future Volume 31

The future is here.the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field. From Alien Invasion to Alternate History, from Cyberpunk to Comic Fantasy to Post-Apocalyptic Worlds, these are the winning writers who have mastered every version and vision of sci-fi and fantasy. Don't be left behind. Get a read on what's next. "The Writers of the Future contest looks for people with the best imaginations who can see through the possibilities of the strangest and best ideas and tell stories that intrigue us and involve us." -ORSON SCOTT CARD Celebrate the 31st anniversary of the Writers of the Future contest and the 26th anniversary of the Illustrators of the Future contest.

Amy H. Hughes, Auston Habershaw, Daniel J. Davis, Kary English, Kevin A. Anderson, Krystal Claxton, L. Ron Hubbard, Larry Niven, Martin L. Shoemaker, Michael T. Banker, Orson Scott Card, Rebecca Moesta, Samantha Murray, Scott R. Parkin, Sharon Joss, Steve Pantazis, Tim Napper, Zach Chapman (Author), Brian Hutchison, Kevin R. Free, Richard Poe, Saskia Maarleveld (Narrator)

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Wakers

From the New York Times bestselling author of Enders Game comes a brand-new series following a teen who wakes up on an abandoned Earth to discover that he's a clone! Laz is a side-stepper: a teen with the incredible power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. All his life, there was no mistake that a little side-stepping couldn't fix. Until Laz wakes up one day in a cloning facility on a seemingly abandoned Earth. Laz finds himself surrounded by hundreds of other clones, all dead, and quickly realizes that he too must be a clone of his original self. Laz has no idea what happened to the world he remembers as vibrant and bustling only yesterday, and he struggles to survive in the barren wasteland he's now trapped in. But the question that haunts him isn't why was he created, but instead, who woke him up ... and why? There's only a single bright spot in Laz's new life: one other clone appears to still be alive, although she remains asleep. Deep down, Laz believes that this girl holds the key to the mysteries plaguing him, but if he wakes her up, she'll be trapped in this hellscape with him. This is one problem that Laz can't just side-step his way out of.

Orson Scott Card (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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Visitors

Timeshapers Rigg, Umbo, and Param must stop the Visitors from ordering the destruction of the planet Garden. Can they find a way to save their home world—without destroying all human life on Earth? Everything they’ve tried so far has failed—they can’t even figure out why the humans from Earth would want to wipe out this eleven-thousand-year-old colony world. So to find the answer, Rigg must visit every wallfold on Garden to discover what the Visitors fear so much, while his duplicate, Noxon, takes a time-twisting route back to Earth in hopes of changing the future from the enemy’s side. Neither mission can succeed without the help of allies who have proven themselves to be untrustworthy again and again. Meanwhile, Umbo struggles to save the lives of the people he loves without upsetting the whole course of history, while Param and her counselors try to save their homeland from the cruelest of tyrants—Param’s mother. Yet looming over their actions is this question: Will all of their efforts come down to a choice between human life on Earth or human life on Garden?

Orson Scott Card (Author), Emily Rankin, Kirby Heyborne, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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Treason

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. Now charged with a mission of conquest'and exile'Lanik devises a bold and dangerous plan to finally break the vicious chain of rivalry and bloodshed that enslaves the people of the planet Treason. 'Card provides a colorful dramatization of ethical issues and questions of identity against a backdrop of bizarrely fascinating races.''Publishers Weekly

Orson Scott Card (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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The Worthing Saga

It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever then for a long, long time. Somec 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. It allowed great plans to be put into motion. It allowed interstellar empires to be built. It came near to destroying humanity. After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. Each carried human embryos and supplies and teaching robots and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried.

Orson Scott Card (Author), A Full Cast, Aaron Johnston, Corinne Melançon, Emily Janice Card, Eric Luke, Harlan Ellison, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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The Worthing Saga

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 ten. Somec 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. It came near to destroying humanity. After eons of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. Each carried human embryos, supplies, teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried. This is a full cast recording, with an afterword read by Orson Scott Card.

Orson Scott Card (Author), A Full Cast, Aaron Johnston, Corinne Melançon, Corinne Melançon, Emily Janice Card, Eric Luke, Harlan Ellison, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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The Swarm

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. 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, unstoppable by any weapons that Earth can muster. Earth has been reorganized for defense. There is now a Hegemon, a planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring nations in line. There's a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the military forces of the planet into the new International Fleet. But there is an enemy within, an enemy as old as human warfare: ambition and politics. Greed and self-interest. Will Bingwen, Mazer Rackam, Victor Delgado and Lem Juke be able to divert those very human enemies in time to create a weapon that can effectively defend humanity in the inexorable Second Formic War?

Aaron Johnston, Orson Scott Card (Author), A Full Cast, Arthur Morey, Emily Card Rankin, Orson Scott Card, Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Susan Hanfield, Vikas Adam (Narrator)

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