Libros de Orson Scott Card (3 libros)

La tierra desprevenida es el primer volumen de la trilogía «Primera Guerra Fórmica», precula de la «Saga Ender» de Orson Scott Card. Antes de que Ender Wiggin naciera, mucho antes de que la Escuela de Batalla fuera creada, los alienígenas llevaron la guerra a la galaxia... La nave minera Cavadora se encuentra alejada de la Tierra, en las profundidades del Cinturón de Kuiper. Otras naves mineras, y las familias que viven en ellas, están tan cerca como lejos de ella. Los sistemas de la nave minera son viejos y empiezan a fallar, y la familia se está volviendo demasiado grande para el...

In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old ladies, ply him endlessly with delicious Southern cooking. Even Sylvie, the squatter Lark was once desperate to evict from the old house, is now...

Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad" (radical regenerative) 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 conspiracy beyond his imagination. Now charged with a mission of conquest--and exile--Lanik devises a bold and dangerous plan to break the vicious chain of...