Flux, Orson Scott Card
Flux, Orson Scott Card
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Flux
Tales of Human Futures: Book 2 of Maps in a Mirror

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Paul Boehmer, Arte Johnson, Stefan Rudnicki, and others

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/30/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

This second volume of Orson Scott Cards fivevolume anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race. A fascistic governments capital punishment extends beyond death. Intellectually superior aliens from a doomed world choose Earths dogs as their new vessels. Notquitehuman beings on an Earth wasted by biological warfare continously fight an enemy which has long been annihilated. These and other possible fates may be discovered in this collection, which includes: 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, and The Originist. Card includes background commentaries for each story in his afterwords and introductions.

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 Jim on October 21, 2014

Excellent intro & afterword both read by Card. Several different readers for the stories, all very good. He's not afraid of pushing limits, either. A thousand deaths — was really good, but gruesome. Horrible, but really excellent thought, although the backdrop was pretty cliched. Still, the point w......more

Goodreads review by Paul on August 13, 2011

"Flux" is a 1992 collection of short stories by Card that contain some rather "interesting" stories all set in future planets or versions of history. "A Thousand Deaths" from 1979 is one of the more graphic stories ever told by Card in that it deals with a government that allows a convicted criminal......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on December 30, 2023

So as I read this I realized that i had read most of these stories before, but I kept reading all the way through as I really enjoy his work.......more

Goodreads review by Ben on December 21, 2018

Most of these stories are better than the previous collection (Changed Man), although none of them area really all that great. Many of them seem to be about men trying to demonstrate their strength or masculinity, which I in general find to be a very boring topic. A Thousand Deaths: (4/5) Upsetting a......more

Goodreads review by Edward on May 31, 2017

Buenos relatos, pero extremadamente sencillos para tratarse de un gran escritor como Scott Card. Entretienen pero se olvidan rápidamente.......more