Orson Scott Card - (Maps in a Mirror #05) - Lost Songs
This final volume of Orson Scott Card’s five-volume anthology of short works features the “hidden stories,” including his first published piece, some tales about Mormon family life and other stylistic departures, and several stories that were later developed into acclaimed novels such as Ender’s Game, Songmaster, Invasive Procedures, and the Tales of Alvin Maker series.
Noted author Orson Scott Card explores what it might have been like to be Moses, and provides an account of the lives of Moses's brother, Aaron, his sister Miriam, the two women that he called mother, and the woman he married.
In July 1977, "Ender's Game" appeared as a novelette in Analog magagzine. The science fiction community immediately embraced it, nominating it for a Hugo Award, and when Orson Scott Card turned it into a novel in 1985, it won both the Hugo and Nebula Award. Now, twenty-five years later, First Meetings celebrates "Ender's Game" by re-releasing that original story with three others, two of them never before available on audio and an original dramatization never published anywhere.
Based on the popular novel by New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game, Ultimate Iron Man), Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a spellbinding story of fantasy with a unique twist. In an alternate history of the American frontier where folk magic actually works,
In SARAH, Orson Scott Card uses his fertile imagination and uncanny insight into human nature to flesh out a unique woman-one who is beautiful, tough, smart and resourceful in an era when women get short shrift in life as well as in the historical record. Sarah takes on a vivid reality as a woman desirable to kings, a devoted wife and a faithful follower of the God of Abraham, chosen to experience an incomparable miracle. Set in the splendour and excess of Egypt and the starkly beautiful desert landscapes of the Sinai Peninsular, SARAH is an altogether believable and provocatve drama.
