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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: At the end of «Shadow of the Giant», Bean flees to the stars with three of his children — who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Ender and Valentine Wiggin: brother and sister whose lives have shaped history. Valentine is Demosthenes, whose subversive, incendiary writings fight the monstrous power of Starways Congress, masters of the Hundred Worlds. And Ender... As a child, Ender commanded a warfleet that wiped out a planet. The triumph of his life could be his fight to stop it happening again. It might be his tragedy that…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Three thousand planet-bound years have passed while Ender the star-traveller remains young. In that time his name has become anathema, for he is the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings. No other has been found — until Lusitania is discovered. The young race there offers mankind a chance to redeem the previous destruction. The only humans allowed near are trained…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This stand-alone sequel to Card's New York Times — bestselling novel Empire continues the author's message about the dangers of extreme political polarization and the need to reassert moderation and mutual citizenship.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic «Ender's Game». In «Ender’s Game», the world’s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 804 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 355) Аннотация: A «New York Times» bestselling author, Card is a master storyteller who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science fiction and fantasy novels. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near-future scenario of a new American civil war.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The human race faces annihilation. An alien threat is on the horizon, ready to strike. And if humanity is to be defended, the government must create the greatest military commander in history. The brilliant young Ender Wiggin is their last hope. But first he must survive the rigours of a brutal military training programme — to prove that he can be the leader of all leaders. A saviour for mankind…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Meet Andrew «Ender» Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero ofEnder's Game — winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel — and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. «The Polish Boy» is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A Sequel to The New York Times Bestselling «Enders's Shadow». Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth. Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics — the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Welcome to Battleschool. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains. Bean is a genius…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. 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…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: he War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more. But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. 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…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 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. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 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…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: 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 pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but…