The Gate Thief, Orson Scott Card
The Gate Thief, Orson Scott Card
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The Gate Thief
A Novel of the Mither Mages

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Emily Rankin and Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 12 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/19/2013

Synopsis

In this sequel toThe Lost Gate, bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the mages of Westil, who live in exile on Earth. Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they cant control himand they cant control him; he is far too powerful. On Westil, Wad is now nearly powerlesshe lost everything to Danny in their struggle. Even if he can survive the revenge of his enemies, he must still somehow make peace with the Gatemage Daniel North, for when Danny took that power from Loki, he also took responsibility for the Great Gates. And when he comes face-to-face with the mages who call themselves Bel and Ishtoreth, he will understand just why Loki closed the gates all those centuries ago.

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 Mike (the Paladin) on April 16, 2013

And another series crashes and burns. I really liked the first book in the "series" of books The Lost Gate and was greatly looking forward to the next book, this one. It opened well and I was drawn back into the story of the young Gate mage and his friends...for a while. This book gets bogged down in......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on August 30, 2017

I think Orson Scott Card is doing a fantastic job writing good-kid YA. It's really hard. Most of the YA out there is full of stupid kids doing stupid things and while Danny fits the bill, he's still a sight better than most. He's dependable and loyal and he does the right thing even when it would be......more

Goodreads review by zjakkelien on July 09, 2016

Well, this is a difficult one. I liked the story and thought it was a good continuation of book 1, but there are also a few things that stuck in my throat about The gate thief. Let me tell you that I'm generally not very interested in an author's personal views, as long as his books are good. So far......more

Goodreads review by Raymond on December 27, 2014

I'd love to give this book a higher rating. It has a great premise, and cool moments, but so much of the book was mind numbingly boring I wanted to give up. It seemed like every other page was: And then Dan learned that his gate magic X could let him do Y but only when he first did A and Wad let him......more

Goodreads review by Devan on March 20, 2013

One star is lost for OSC not being able to resist putting his negative feelings about gay people into the book. One star is lost for bashing on YA literature about 10-15 times and suggesting that every YA book ever made is crap compared to Card's "far superior" "adult fiction." The other 3 stars are......more

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