The Hanged Man, Orson Scott Card
The Hanged Man, Orson Scott Card
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The Hanged Man
Tales of Dread: Book 1 of Maps in a Mirror

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: David Birney, Scott Brick, Don Leslie, and others, with commentary by the author

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/30/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

This first volume in a fivevolume anthology of Orson Scott Cards short stories features eleven chilling tales that provoke the dreaded dark side of the readers imagination A sinful man finally faces his conscience in the form of a babylike creature that haunts his waking hours. A thrillseeking playboy uses a time machine to experience the excitement of death without actually dying. A child having trouble adjusting to a new town withdraws into a mysterious computer game, where he meets imaginary friends who have the same names as boys who have recently gone missing. Stories include: Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory, Quietus, Deep Breathing Exercises, Fat Farm, Closing the Timelid, Freeway Games, A Sepulchre of Songs, Prior Restraint, The Changed Man and the King of Words, Memories of My Head, and Lost Boys.

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 Steven on April 25, 2022

Una sorpresa inesperada, muy buen libro. La historia de cómo conocí este libro no la olvidaré fácilmente. Podría decir que todo fue cuestión de suerte, pero a veces, las casualidades me hacen dudar seriamente. Pensar en las casualidades me hace recordar aquellas veces en las que parece que todo ha sa......more

Goodreads review by Jim on June 22, 2017

Drat! I forgot to write a review for this as soon as I finished it, so now I've forgotten half of the praises I wanted to heap on it. Excellent collection & well narrated. Great intro & afterword, too. It was excellent to hear where some of the stories came from. Highly recommended as all of the sto......more

Goodreads review by Traummachine on January 22, 2013

This is 1 part of 5 in a large volume of Card's short fiction, called Maps in a Mirror, and the book is divided by genre into 5 sections. Each "book" includes an introduction of Card's take on the genre, as well as an afterward where he talks about the ideas and influences behind each tale. It's an......more

Goodreads review by Adrián on August 08, 2021

Siento decepción, la verdad es que esperaba mucho más de uno de mis autores preferidos... Por desgracia está recopilación de relatos cortos me ha dejado con una sensación de vacío. Seguiré leyendo el resto de libros (ya que fueron un regalo para mi cumpleaños), pero espero que mejoren porque salvo 2......more

Goodreads review by Bill on March 23, 2019

AUDIBLE BOOK 11 tales of dread by and excellent writer.......more