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Orson Scott Card: award-winning science fiction books

Orson Scott Card has 8 science fiction books recognized by the Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards, including 3 winners.

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, book cover

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Novel · 1985

Hugo winnerNebula winnerLocus recognition

Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers".

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card, book cover

Xenocide

by Orson Scott Card

Novel · 1991 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover

Hugo recognitionLocus recognition

On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to become adults.

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