About the book: 2005 / The very first publication of the story "Ender's Game" brought Orson Scott Card enormous popularity, and since then his work has aroused enduring interest among readers many countries of the world. Incredible intricacies of plots and unexpected endings - take, for example, stories about a man who is destined to survive a thousand deaths, about a boy who is a supercomputer, about deadly dangerous games on a highway, or about a disabled girl who amazingly sings in her sleep - are characteristic of almost every work of Card. But even for sophisticated fantasy fans, the unusual, often paradoxical stories of the recognized master of the genre, a bright star on the literary horizon of the late 20th century, will become a real discovery - perhaps unexpected, but certainly fascinating. Moreover, almost all the works included in this collection are published for the first time in Russian.