- Fiction, Young women, Space colonies, Assassins
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Epic, grave, earnest and classical in form.
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- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Ediciones Obelisco, ARBOR HOUSE. NY 1987, Arbor House
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812521368
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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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