Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
List: $27.95 | Sale: $19.57
Club: $13.97

Enchantment

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir

Unabridged: 17 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

As one of the most consistently exciting writers to emerge in the last twentyfive years, Orson Scott Card has been honored with numerous awards, immersing readers in dazzling worlds only he could create. Now, in Enchantment, Card works his magic as never before, transforming the timeless story of Sleeping Beauty into an original fantasy brimming with romance and adventure.

About Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into the Ender Saga, which chronicles the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, which follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and is set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, which tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien "Buggers." Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977--the short story "Gert Fram" in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of "Ender's Game" in the August issue of Analog. The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin. Card was born in Washington state, 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, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.He is the author many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series "The Tales of Alvin Maker" (beginning with Seventh Son), and stand-alone novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's work also includes the Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old. Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card. He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on October 29, 2007

This book was unbelievably clever, A professional runner studying dead languages - happens to take an internship... being about the only person in the entire world who could survive what happens to him. The thought of reading ancient stories and having them be about your mom, or dad, or something tha......more

Goodreads review by Lindsy on January 18, 2008

On the surface this book sounds great. Fairytales, fantasy, basis in actual folklore type stuff; it's even decently written. However I found the characters so unlikable that the story was ruined for me. The main character abandons a fiancee that he was very happy with...*until* he met the princess. H......more

Goodreads review by Jay G on December 11, 2018

Want to see more bookish things from me? Check out my youtube channel: [URL not allowed] 2.5/5 Stars Ivan is a Russian scholar who moves to America with his family when he is a young boy. He decides to visit Russia in order to work on his thesis. When he returns, he stumbles ac......more

Goodreads review by Kressel on August 10, 2016

I started this retelling of “Sleeping Beauty” immediately after finishing City of Thieves, and I was fully expecting to be transported to a radically different world. Imagine my surprise when this book picked up more or less where the last had left off – in the Soviet Union (albeit the 1970’s, n......more