The award-winning classic about war, survival and what it takes to make a hero - reissued with a stunning new cover style

ENDER'S GAME

Les personnages vivants et mémorables ne naissent pas, ils doivent être créés.Ce livre est une boîte à outils : leviers littéraires, burins, maillets, tenailles et pinces. Servez-vous-en pour extirper, dégager, arracher de bons personnages de votre mémoire, votre imagination et votre âme.Orson Scott Card explique en détail les techniques de création, de développement et de présentation des personnages, ainsi que l’utilisation des points de vue dans les romans et nouvelles. Avec des exemples précis, il passe en revue les choix narratifs – ceux qui vous permettront de créer des personnages de fiction si « réels » que les lecteurs auront l’impression de les connaître aussi bien que des membres de leur propre famille.Vous apprendrez à…- Définir des personnages par ce qu’ils disent et accomplissent, et par leur « style » personnel.- Développer des personnages que les lecteurs aimeront – ou aimeront détester.- Créer des personnages secondaires et des faire-valoir.- Choisir le point de vue le plus efficace pour révéler les personnages et faire avancer le récit.- Décider du niveau d’introspection de vos personnages, du développement de leurs pensées, émotions et comportements.

Personnages et Points de vue

In the not-too-distant future, a major scientific breakthrough has created a way to open windows into the past, and a scientist believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world of hope and healing.

La rédemption de Christophe Colomb (Observatoire du temps, #1)

At first, Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted down. But things were quiet now, had been quiet for a year, and it was plain to him now that they would not bring him back at all, that he was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person.At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin--called Ender by everyone--knows that he cannot live on Earth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: He is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony.He is offered the choice of living under the Hegemon's control, a pawn in his brother Peter's political games. Or he can join the colony ships and go out to settle one of the new worlds won in the war.The story of those years on the colony worlds has never been told...until now.The voyage was long. By the end of it, Val had finished the first volume of her history of the bugger wars and transmitted it by ansible, under Demosthenes' name, back to Earth, and Ender had won something better than the adulation of the passengers. They knew him now, and he had won their love and their respect.Ender was twelve when he chose to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies. With him went his sister, Valentine, and the core of the artificial intelligence that would become Jane. He wrote The Hive Queen and The Hegemon, and his sister wrote The Speaker for the Dead.He served as governor of his first colony world, but now Ender is on the move, looking for a planet where the hive queens might be reestablished.What he finds in the Ganges colony is more than he bargained for--a resentful governor who caused a devastating war on Earth and a brilliant young colonist who is out to destroy him, starting with his reputation and ending, perhaps, with his life.

Ender: L'exil (Ender's Saga, #6)

Trois mille ans se sont écoulés depuis l'extermination des Doryphores, et les hommes se croient désormais seuls dans l'Univers. Or, sur la planète Lusitania, on découvre l'existence des Piggies, bipèdes mi-hommes mi-cochons doués d'intelligence.Des scientifiques sont détachés pour les étudier mais, sans mobile apparent, ils sont assassinés. L'Humanité s'interroge : doit-on s'inquiéter de cette nouvelle menace, et la détruire?Afin de rendre hommage aux victimes, on convoque sur la planète un porte-parole des morts. Mais voilà, dans ses bagages se trouve un cocon ou vit la dernière reine des Doryphores. Car cet homme n'est autre qu'Ender, le Xénocide.

La Voix des morts (Le Cycle d'Ender, #2)

Portulans de l'imaginaire t.3 ; sonates frelatees ; fables et fantaisies

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.Source: hatrack.com

La Stratégie "Ender"

'The fifth and last volume in Card's sprawling Homecoming saga. More than parable, not quite allegory, Card's far-future religious saga manages, brilliantly, to be at once entertaining, unobjectionable, and edifying.' - Kirkus Reviews
'The conclusion of the story, in which the first born son of a former priest and leader sees the evil he has caused and selects his future, is vintage Card and a joy to read.' - Publishers Weekly
High above the Earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundreds of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. 
She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly - there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from those who followed Nafai or Elemak. But in all the long years of searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of Earth, the central intelligence that alone can repair the Oversoul's damaged programming.
The fifth and final volume in Card's majestic Homecoming saga.
Books by Orson Scott Card:
Alvin Maker novels
Seventh Son
Red Prophet
Prentice Alvin
Alvin Journeyman
Heartfire
The Crystal City
Ender Wiggin Saga
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender in Exile
Homecoming
The Memory of the Earth
The Call of the Earth
The Ships of the Earth
Earthfall
Earthborn
First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens

Earthborn

Avec L'Homme transformé (Récits d'angoisse), commence la publication en quatre volumes des nouvelles d'Orson Scott Card, un genre où le créateur d'Alvin et d'Ender excelle particulièrement.
Récits d'angoisse plus que de terreur, car " des trois formes de la peur l'angoisse est la plus forte : c'est cette tension, cette attente qui naît quand on sait qu'il y a quelque chose à craindre mais qu'on n'a pas encore identifié l'objet de cette crainte ". Ainsi : " Je n'écris pas d'histoires d'horreur. C'est vrai, il arrive à mes personnages des événements désagréables, voire terribles, mais je ne vous les montre pas en Technicolor.
Je n'en ai pas besoin et je n'en ai pas envie parce ce que, pris par l'angoisse, vous imaginerez bien pire que tout ce que je pourrais inventer. "

ENDER'S GAME

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