Orson Scott Card

An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment.

Alvin returns to his birthplace to become the blacksmith's apprentice and also to learn -- hopefully with the help of the Torch-girl -- to be a Maker.

Young Alvin was born the seventh son of a seventh son. By his birthright, he possesses magical powers and is destined to become something great, perhaps even a Maker. Indeed, Alvin is special. But the boy remains vulnerable to dark forces who reach out to destroy him and are willing to do anything to keep him from growing up. Carefully weaving the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled a continent, as well as the beliefs of the tribes...

Forced finally to share her husband Abraham after a lifetime of devotion, rebuked by the Lord for her unbelief, and grappling with fears that her beloved Isaac will be displaced by Hagar's Ishmael, Sarah is nonetheless a triumphant figure.

Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.

Alvin Maker is drawn into the political manueverings of his visionary brother and a French colonel exiled to Fort Detroit named Napoleon Bonapart, in this tale set in the frontier of a magical alternate America.

A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion. "A coalition of Earth's nations barely fought off the Formics' first scout ship. Now it's clear that there's a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth's warring nations...

The children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe, the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it were allowed to escape from Lusitania.

The city of Hart's Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, is riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city is captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who ovethrows the king, Nasilee. Palicrovol, too, is cruel. He becomes king by forcing Asineth, now queen by her father's death, to marry him, and then sending her into exile. But he is not cruel enough to rule. The queen lives to bear a daughter, to return from exile and to retake the throne...

Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity.