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Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card returns to the near-future world created for Empire - a world where the international power of the United States has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home have been stressed to the breaking point.
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- TOR, Macmillan Audio, Tor Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780765359711
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Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
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