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 in many countries around the world. Incredible intricacies of plots and unexpected endings - take, for example, stories about a man , which is destined to survive a thousand deaths, about a boy who is a supercomputer, about deadly games on a high-speed highway, or about a disabled girl who sings amazingly in her sleep - are characteristic of almost every work of Card. But even for sophisticated science fiction fans, unusual, often paradoxical stories of the recognized master 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.