The Ender Quartet: Ender’s Game/ Speaker for the Dead/ Xenocide/ Children of the Mind

This boxed set contains Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards

Ender's Game

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Speaker for the Dead

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, 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.

Xenocide

The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.

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.

Children of the Mind

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.

作者簡介

歐森．史考特．卡德（Orson Scott Card）

　　當今美國科幻界最炙手可熱的作家之一，也是知名科 幻經典《戰爭遊戲》（Ender’s Game）、《安德闇影》（Ender’s Shadow）、《亡靈代言人》（Speaker for the Dead），以及其他【安德】系列的作者。《戰爭遊戲》發表於1985年，一舉奪得科幻小說界最高榮譽星雲獎及雨果獎，其續集《亡靈代言人》 （Speaker for the Dead）發表於次年，也獲得星雲獎和雨果獎，使卡德成為唯一一位曾連續兩年贏得這兩項大獎的作家。2008年，他更獲得美國圖書館協會所頒發的「愛德華 終生成就獎」（Margaret A. Edwards Award），以表彰他對青少年文學的傑出貢獻。卡德的作品不僅被全世界成人和青少年讀者喜愛，也被廣泛運用在學校教學。

　　除了科幻小 說之外，卡德也著有奇幻小說《魔術街》（Magic Street）、《魅惑》（Enchantment）和《失蹤的男孩》（Lost Boys），聖經改編小說《石桌》（Stone Tables）和《拉結與利亞》（Rachel and Leah），以及奇幻色彩濃厚的虛擬歷史系列【造物者艾文逸事】（The Tales of Alvin Maker）等六十一本書，【安德】系列小說，更衍伸出漫畫、電玩遊戲，電影也將於2013年11月上映。

　　卡德生於華盛頓，成長於加州、亞利桑那州和猶他州。1970年代曾服務於巴西摩門教會的傳教團。除了寫作之外，也在南維吉尼亞大學教授寫作及文學課程。現與其妻居住於北卡羅來納州的格林斯堡（Greensboro）。

　 　Orson Scott Card is the multi-award winning and bestselling author of a number of ground-breaking adult SFF novels. Ender's Game is his first YA cross-over novel in the UK.