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Homebody: A Novel

Orson Scott Card

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This romantic ghost story relies on a familiar horror backbone: a stranger with a tragic past moves into an old house that also has a tragic past, and is forced to reckon with the supernatural forces that dwell there. In Homebody, the stranger is an itinerant architect-builder who makes a lonely living by purchasing fixer-uppers, renovating them, and selling them. The house he buys in Greensboro, North Carolina, (where Orson Scott Card lives, in real life) has three mysteries attached to it: a tunnel in the basement, an attractive female squatter who refuses to leave, and a trio of weird doomsayers who live next door.

Card has a clear, well-honed writing style, full of human warmth--a style that is especially effective in the development of the central character, and in details of tools and techniques for renovating an old house. His approach to murder, danger, and threatening forces is so free of closeness or oppression that one might call it "anti-gothic." In an interview, he said, "I am completely uninterested in exploring evil. Evil (and weak and wicked) people are all evil (or weak, or wicked) in the same boring ways. But good people are infinitely interesting in the ways they manage to be good despite all the awful circumstances of their lives."

Homebody is a pleasant tale about the triumph of love over evil, with a couple of bizarre twists to give it spice. (Hint: don't read the Kirkus Review if you want to keep the plot a surprise.) --Fiona Webster

Lost Boys: A Novel

Orson Scott Card

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Don't read this book if you don't want to cry 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

That's all I have to say. If you don't like reading books that cause you to care deeply about the characters and to wind up sobbing at the end, never ever ever pick this book up.

What Makes this Book so Good 4 out of 5 stars.
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You have the relationship of the family, despite all the things trying to erode them from the outside, teachers, church members, co-workers and bosses. There is their strong faith too that makes the family appealing even to non-believers like me.
There are lines in this book that made my eyes tear up. When I was mature enough to be moved by this book, the ending made me bawl my eyes out.

There were interesting twists and turns in the story. You'll never really expect the end. It will punch you in the gut.
This book is Orson Scott Card at is finest. Writing a powerful story with characters based on him and his own family. It's right there with Ender's Game and Seventh Son, two other fine books by Orson Scott Card.

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The Perfect Place To Raise A FamilyFrom the bestsellig storyteller Orson Scott Card comes a gripping story of terror within a small town. Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children move to Steuben, North Carolina with high hopes. But Step's new job with a software company turns out to be a snake pit, and eight-year-old Stevie's school is worse. As Stevie retreats into himself, focusing more and more on a mysterious computer game and a growing troop of imaginary friends, the Fletchers' concern turn to terror. Young boys whose names match a list of Stevie's nonexistent friends have mysteriously vanished from Steuben. And as evil strikes out from the most trusted corners, it's suddenly clear: Stevie's next on the list.

Treasure Box

Orson Scott Card

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Well-done movie treatment, so-so novel 2 out of 5 stars.
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The Good: The book moves along smartly. The story is interesting enough to keep you reading. It will no doubt make a smart movie script, if it hasn't already (I don't keep up as I should...)

The Bad:
The characters ring false. The entire story of Fears' rise to wealth feels contrived and unconvincing. I never felt that Card made an effort to get into the head of an unexpectedly rich computer geek; instead, it seemed that Card needed his character to be rich and gullible, and any set of circumstances that resulted in same would have done as well. One never sees how one development flows naturally from the combination of character and circumstance. When Mad and Tin embark on a program of cultivating politicians, we're simply told they embark on a program of cultivating politicians; we don't see the interaction, we're given no examples of how they exploit pet causes to enlist them, nothing at all to convince us that real people are influencing real people. We're presented with a plot sketch rather than a plot and asked to accept that Card has established Mad's bonafides as an ambitious and power-hungry manipulator.

This sets up a real problem with the book. When every development in the story feels forced and unnatural, then the sense of being manipulated and anticipated by Mad loses all impact. The party at which he met Mad was so unconvincing the first time around, that there is no head-slapping moment later in the book when it is revealed that it was a set-up. Card doesn't even bother naming the hostess, as important as she is to the story; she is the stereotypical grande dame, cleverly referred to in the book as 'the grande dame.' She isn't a person, she's a couple of lines of world-weary clever banter attached to a desultory description.

Which leads me to a problem I've encountered in Cards' books before: the Wunderkind. Without offering a spoiler, I can only say that the reader is presented with a character who is yet another preteen operating at the highest levels of adult sophistication, without prior development preparing the reader to accept it. Lapses into childish behavior that are clearly intended as jarring departures from sophistication fail, because the sophistication has been asserted rather than established.

All told, shallow character development and contrived plotting makes this feel more like a movie treatment than a novel to me. On the plus side, I'd go see the movie.

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Quentin Fears is a certifiable recluse, moving restlessly from town to town, investing the millions he's made as a software creator and always avoiding companionship. Until one night he meets his dream woman, Madeleine. Witty and beautiful, she is as uncomfortable with the world as he is.After a few whirlwind weeks of love, they marry.

Perfectly happy, there is only one thing that mars their complete bliss -- Madeleine's strange, cantankerous family. And one more thing. There's an ancient family secret to which Madeleine holds the key. Soon Quentin realizes that only he can stop her from unleashing an ageless malevolence that will rule the world. But to do so, he must do the impossible -- step outside of himself and join the world he has always avoided.

Quentin must learn to trust, to hope and to forgive. How he does it, while stabilizing a vengeful, volatile family, makes for an unsettling and poignant story that only acclaimed author Orson Scott Card could create.

Beyond Ender's Game: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind

Orson Scott Card

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Beyond Enders Boxed Mass Market Set
Contains: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind


Speaker for the Dead:
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.

Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.


Xenocide:
The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.

On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.

Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered eh destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitble.


Children of the Mind:
The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.

Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.

Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves.

Children of the Night: Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and "Lost Children" (The Children of the Night)

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Not for Children!!! 3 out of 5 stars.
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I was a little dissapointed in the horror content. But the stories were interesting and very different. Not at all gory/splatterpunkish. If your looking for dark stories with different endings, these would be them

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This is a collection of 11 bone-chilling stories of children who have learned to deal with the worse. What they do may surprise you, because they are children of the night.

Best Horror Value Collection (Horror Library)

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The Horror Book of the Century 3 out of 5 stars.
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It sounds like a really interesting book. I have never read these stories before. Seems similar to Greatest Horror Stories of the 20th Century by Robert Bloch. Sounds very exciting. Can't wait to read it. These stories are truly original. I really like Robert Bloch

The Horror Book of the Century 4 out of 5 stars.
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It sounds like a really interesting book. I have never read these stories before. Seems similar to Greatest Horror Stories of the 20th Century by Robert Bloch. Sounds very exciting. Can't wait to read it. These stories are truly original. I really like Robert Bloch (Best Horror Value Collection.) (Unabridged)by Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card, the winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for fiction, and Martin H. Greenberg, editor/author of over 100 different short story and novella anthologies, have teamed together to produce the Dercum Value Collections. Each volume in the series contains four ninety-minute cassettes, with six hours of some of the best stories in the genre, for under $20! These collections are not available in book form anywhere: they were selected and recorded especially for Dercum Audio. Volume one of the horror collection includes such classics as Cage 37 by Wayne Wightman; The Colonization of Edwin Beal by Lisa Tuttle; HeWeAwait by Howard Waldrop.

Eye for Eye

Orson Scott Card

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Riviting Science Fiction 4 out of 5 stars.
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I believe I first read this book when I was in the 9th grade. I had checked the book out from the high school library. I eventually read the book atleast 3 times before I returned it. Since then I have not seen the book nor been able to find it. I was not one for reading books at that age, but this book intrigued me. I was truely able to visiualize the events which Orson displayed. The story starts our with a teenage boy who knows he is different. I realizes he can channel energy. This ability is amplified by hightened moments of stress. In moments of anger, if someone were to confront him, was delt a dose of cancer or some other human disfunction. One person angered him so that they died instantly from his surge of energy mangling the person from the inside. With almost an X-men type spin off, he runs from home fearing he would hurt others. Later he is confronted by a very beautiful women in her mid-twenties. He finds that she has the same abilities which he has, but no where near as strong. She teaches him of what he is and how he has recieved this ability. Even if a million people gathered together and channeled there energies, they would mearely give an individual a small tumor of little effect.She informs him that there are more like them. Others with her level of strength that would like to get their hands on him to marry him into their family. By doing so, these families would then be able to breed him for stronger more power inviduals with the ability to channel their energies. Forming a superhuman group. The young female's mission is to get him to safety, away from these other families. This is an amazing book with amazing detail and imagination. As I read I felt like I was watching a movie. It was amazing. I would recommend this book to any science fiction lover.

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Mick Winger is only seventeen—and already he’s killed over a dozen people. Not on purpose; he never meant to hurt anyone. But when Mick gets angry, people die, even the people he loves the most. Now he’s on the run from his own terrible talent, and from those who would use his power for their own obscene purposes. But Mick is not alone. There are others like him. And if he will not join them, they will make him pay…EYE FOR EYE.

Orson Scott Card is one of the world’s best-loved writers, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards two years in a row. He is author of Ender’s Game and many New York Times bestsellers. Card’s latest novels are Shadow of the Giant and Magic Street.

This recording features Stefan Rudnicki, narrator on numerous audiobooks and recipient of an Audie for his solo narration on Orson Scott Card’s Lost Boys and an Earphones Awards for his productions of Card’s Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead and Crystal City.

The Elephants of Posnan: and Other Stories

Orson Scott Card, Various artists

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Card is incredible! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I don't know what it is about Orson Scott Card -- Before I ever read him, I was prepared to not like him. I'd heard that he was a science fiction writer and that genre isn't a favorite of mine. However, my opinion now is that Card ranks as one of the absolute best and most skillful authors alive today. He has an amazing ability to get inside the person or circumstance he is writing about and make it into something that anyone could understand and be proundly moved by.

In addition, he comes up with some of the most fascinating ideas for a story. The title piece, 'The Elephants of Posnan', is one example. Although there is no doubt that Card wasn't suggesting that the premise of this story is truth, it still left me mulling the entire piece over and over again. He makes such a moving and brilliant case for something entirely bizarre, and insightfully comments on the nature of man in the process. 'The Elephants of Posnan' was positively spellbinding, beginning to end.

I love this collection. Orson Scott Card is a true master of his craft.

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Here are masterpieces by a New York Times bestselling author, a past and present master of the short forms in fantasy, science fiction, and horror. This collection includes original unpublished stories, "The Elephants of Posnan" and "Feed the Baby of Love;" classics like "Unaccompanied Sonata" and "Fat Farm;" as well as the original short versions of "The Lost Boys" and "Ender's Game" -- rated, in its longer version, one of the best-loved books of all time.

The Elephants of Posnan: and Other Stories

Orson Scott Card, Various artists

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Card is incredible! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I don't know what it is about Orson Scott Card -- Before I ever read him, I was prepared to not like him. I'd heard that he was a science fiction writer and that genre isn't a favorite of mine. However, my opinion now is that Card ranks as one of the absolute best and most skillful authors alive today. He has an amazing ability to get inside the person or circumstance he is writing about and make it into something that anyone could understand and be proundly moved by.

In addition, he comes up with some of the most fascinating ideas for a story. The title piece, 'The Elephants of Posnan', is one example. Although there is no doubt that Card wasn't suggesting that the premise of this story is truth, it still left me mulling the entire piece over and over again. He makes such a moving and brilliant case for something entirely bizarre, and insightfully comments on the nature of man in the process. 'The Elephants of Posnan' was positively spellbinding, beginning to end.

I love this collection. Orson Scott Card is a true master of his craft.

Editorial Review:

Here are masterpieces by a New York Times bestselling author, a past and present master of the short forms in fantasy, science fiction, and horror. This collection includes original unpublished stories, "The Elephants of Posnan" and "Feed the Baby of Love;" classics like "Unaccompanied Sonata" and "Fat Farm;" as well as the original short versions of "The Lost Boys" and "Ender's Game" -- rated, in its longer version, one of the best-loved books of all time.