

Magic Street
Author: Orson Scott Card
Narrator: Mirron E. Willis
Unabridged: 13 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/27/2005
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Orson Scott Card
Narrator: Mirron E. Willis
Unabridged: 13 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/27/2005
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
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.
OSC does NOT write "ethnic" characters as well as Neil Gaiman does. You're better off reading Ananzi's Boys, the sequel to American Gods. Most of the characters are black, and he gets it right. He realizes that black folks such as myself do not just rhapsodize about their blackness all the time. We......more
La verdad que fue una lectura muy amena, fluída, pero por sobre todo, muy interesante. La historia me pareció muy bien escrita, con unos personajes que se las traen y que cada uno, en lo suyo, tuvo su peso necesario. Una historia de hadas? Una historia de "negros"? Una historia onírica? Creo que es......more
Un libro que salió ganador del club de lectura que pertenezco, al principio no le tenía mucha confianza pero a lo largo de su lectura me fue enganchando de a poco, de lectura fácil y entretenida. El autor logra desplegar una mente plagada de fantasía como muy pocas veces vi en un libro...siento que......more
Orson Scott Card is such a great writer that even his mediocre books are very, very good. This book cannot begin to compare to Card's books about Alvin Maker or Ender Wiggin - partially because this book is a stand-alone story, not the beginning of an epic series. But as a stand-alone story, Magic St......more
Una historia de fantasía contemporánea, es decir magia en situaciones de la vida cotidiana. Es la primera vez que leo algo del subgénero y ha sido una lectura interesante; me encanta la fantasía, sin embargo, este libro me supo a poco. Había leído con anterioridad a Scott Card por un libro de cuento......more