Hart's Hope
A dark and powerful fantasy from the bestselling author of Ender’s Shadow.
Enter
the city of Hart’s Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent,
riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious
lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew the cruel king, Nasilee, hated by his
people.
Palicrovol, too, was cruel, as befitted a king. He
took the true mantle of kinghood by forcing Asineth, now Queen by her
father’s death, to marry him, raping her to consummate the marriage.
[But he was not cruel enough to rule.] He let her live after her
humiliation; live to bear a daughter; live to return from exile and
retake the throne of Hart’s Hope.
But she, in turn, sent
Palicrovol into exile to breed a son who would, in the name of the God,
take back the kingdom from its cruel Queen.
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Orson Scott Card
Before Ender’s Game became required reading in classrooms and a touchstone for science fiction fans worldwide, it was just a short story—one that Orson Scott Card wrote while trying to understand how humanity might survive its own genius. That idea, born of curiosity and a deep interest in moral complexity, would eventually grow into a sprawling series exploring war, empathy, leadership, and the loneliness of brilliance.
Born in Richland, Washington in 1951 and raised mostly in Utah and California, Card grew up in a family where storytelling was a living thing—spoken, passed down, constantly evolving. Though he began his career writing plays and studying literature, he found his true voice in speculative fiction. And when he wrote Ender’s Game—and later Speaker for the Dead—he did something science fiction rarely dared at the time: he treated the genre as a tool for exploring the human soul.
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