Orson Scott Card

Maps in a Mirror (eBook, ePUB)

The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well.

For the hundreds of thousands who are newly come to Card, here is chance to experience the wonder of a writer so versatile that he can handle everything from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction with equal ease and grace. The brilliant story-telling of the Alvin Maker books is no accident; the breathless excitement evoked by the Ender books is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

In this enormous volume are forty-six stories, plus ten long, intensely personal essays, unique to this volume. In them the author reveals some of his reasons and motivations for writing, with a good deal of autobiography into the bargain.

"One of the genre's most convincing storytellers. An important volume."--Library Journal

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tor Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429966153
• Artikelnr.: 39951389

Autorenporträt

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; The Lost Gate , is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.

Inhaltsangabe

Book 1
The Changed Man: Tales of Dread
Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory
Quietus
Deep Breathing Exercises
Fat Farm
Closing the Timelid
Freeway Games
A Sepulcher of Songs
Prior Restraint
The Changed Man and the King of Words
Memories of My Head
Lost Boys
Book 2
Flux: Tales of Human Futures
A Thousand Deaths
Clap Hands and Sing
Dogwalker
But We Try Not to Act Like It
I Put My Blue Genes On
In the Doghouse
The Originist
Book 3
Maps in a Mirror: Fables and Fantasies
Unaccompanied Sonata
A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon
The Porcelain Salamander
Middle Woman
The Bully and the Beast
The Princess and the Bear
Sandmagic
The Best Day
A Plague of Butterflies
The Monkeys Thought 'Twas All in Fun
Book 4
Cruel Miracles: Tales of Death, Hope, and Holiness
Mortal Gods
Saving Grace
Eye for Eye
St. Amy's Tale
Kingsmeat
Holy
Book 5
Lost Songs: The Hidden Stories
Ender's Game [novella]
Mikal's Songbird
Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow [poetry]
Malpractice
Follower
Hitching
Damn Fine Novel [as Noam D. Pellume]
Billy's Box [as Byron Walley]
The Best Family Home Evening Ever [as Byron Walley]
Bicicleta [as Byron Walley]
I Think Mom and Dad Are Going Crazy, Jerry [as Byron Walley]
Gert Fram [as Byron Walley]