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Originally Posted by I, Brian How about the "Tales of Alvin Maker" series? The "Homecoming" series? How about some of his standalone novels? |
Paswatch was amazing, I liked it a lot. I read the first Alvin Maker and quit there.
The Homecoming series was extremely odd. Card belongs to the LDS church, and this series is a clear retelling of the Book of Mormon, just in a scifi setting. Even the names are similar.
His short stories can be bought all in one book (
Maps in the Mirror, The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card). It's a collection of the four previous books of short fiction that he published. I have it, and have read every story, and the ones I like 3 or 4 times.
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Originally Posted by knivesout These are the 'Ender's' sequels that youve read, right, not 'Speaker for the Dead' and 'Xenocide'? |
Ender's Game was a short story to begin with. Card was considering writing a book about some kind of Speaker of the Dead, and decided that Ender could be the speaker. So he rewrote
Ender's Game into Novel form to set up the story for
Speaker of the Dead (notice the first time you read it that when you think it's over there's still 50 pages left? Set up for
Speak of the Dead). And the story evolved from there.
But the books are generally considered in series, Ender's Game as book 1, Speaker for the Dead as book 2, etc. And Some have Ender's Shadow (The first in the parallel series) as book 5, etc. which is interesting.
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Originally Posted by littlemissattitude Card is an extremely bright individual. That is obvious, not only from his writing, but from his comments and his manner in panels and talks I attended the year he was guest of honor at LosCon. Life can be hard for a child growing up bright in American culture - being smart is not an especially valued characteristic; fitting in is much more valued. Additionally, the religious tradition Card grew up in (and which I have some experience with, as well) values the intelligent individual even less. That tradition also is not especially nurturing of creativity. That tradition sometimes denies these things, but I know from close experience that what I say is true. |
That is a rather grand generalization.