Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Ender Wiggin is a “Third.” His parents were allowed to have him only because their first two children, Peter and Valentine, showed so much promise. Earth is expecting another Bugger attack from outer space and humans are desperately trying to breed and train the children who they hope will […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4.5 | Orson Scott Card | Audio, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Ender’s Game Alive by Orson Scott Card This review assumes you have read Ender’s Game, or are familiar with it, so it may contain some spoilers for Ender’s Game. Before becoming one of the of most accomplished science fiction authors of his generation, Orson Scott Card worked as a writer of full-length plays for BYU, […]
Read MoreJoão Eira´s rating: 4.5 | Orson Scott Card | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card It’s been 3000 years since Ender Wiggin, as a child, was tricked into committing xenocide. While he and his sister Valentine traveled the universe and benefited from the effects of space-time relativity, Ender’s name has been reviled on Earth and all the inhabited planets. He is infamous […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 5 | Orson Scott Card | Audio, Hugo Award, Nebula Award | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card Xenocide is the third book in Orson Scott Card’s award-winning ENDER WIGGEN saga. In the first book, Ender’s Game, the child Ender Wiggen was trained to wipe out the alien “buggers” who were planning to destroy the earth. The second novel, Speaker for the Dead, takes place years later when […]
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Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game was a SF book so successful and critically acclaimed that it launched Orson Scott Card’s career for decades to come. In fact, it’s fair to say that the story of Ender Wiggins is one of the most popular SF novels the genre has ever produced, to the point […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta´s rating: 4 | Orson Scott Card | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card When you’re surrounded by light, how do you know whether it’s the glory of God, or the flames of Hell? Set in an alternate American frontier, Seventh Son is the first in Orson Scott Card’s THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER. Alvin Miller is the seventh son of a seventh […]
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Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card Red Prophet is the second book in Orson Scott Card’s THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER, an alternate history set in a frontier America in which folk magic is real. In the first book, Seventh Son, we were introduced to the main protagonist of the series, Alvin Miller who, because […]
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Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card Prentice Alvin is the third book in Orson Scott Card’s TALES OF ALVIN MAKER. After the excitement in the last book, Red Prophet, when Alvin and his family experienced the Battle of Tippecanoe, Alvin is finally off to Hatrack River, where he was born, to begin his apprenticeship to […]
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Alvin Journeyman by Orson Scott Card Alvin Miller is finally a journeyman blacksmith and a Maker. He’s back home in Vigor Church, trying to teach others his Making skills because he believes he needs Makers to create the Crystal City he’s dreamed of. But the Unmaker is hard at work, trying to unravel Alvin’s plans. […]
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The Crystal City by Orson Scott Card The Crystal City is the (maybe) final novel in Orson Scott Card’s TALES OF ALVIN MAKER. This series started off strongly with Seventh Son and Red Prophet, but it bogged down during books three and four (Prentice Alvin and Alvin Journeyman) and I was ready to give up. […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 2 | Orson Scott Card | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card is an award-winning author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy books, including the Hugo and Nebula award winning Ender’s Game. So who else would you turn to for instruction on how to write a science fiction and fantasy novel? I’m […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 2.5 | Orson Scott Card | Hugo Award, Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card Scenario: If you knew there was a bomb in a building, would you feel obliged to yell as loudly as possible to warn other people? The bomb explodes and the injuries are high and the death toll unimaginable. But let’s then suppose you have an […]
Read MoreJason Golomb´s rating: 4 | Orson Scott Card | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 9 comments |
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card Rigg is a 13-year-old boy who lives in seclusion with his father, surviving as a trapper and only occasionally going to the nearest town to sell animals’ pelts. He is successful as a trapper in part because he has a unique ability: he can see the “paths” people and animals […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 4 | Orson Scott Card | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Hamlet’s Father by Orson Scott Card Those of us who majored in English in college have all read Shakespeare’s Hamlet at least once, and we’ve all seen at least one performance. Some of us go to as many performances as we possibly can, enjoying every new spin on the old tale. I’ve seen at least […]
Read MoreTerry Weyna´s rating: 1 | Orson Scott Card | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card In the fictional universe of Orson Scott Card’s latest novel The Lost Gate, what we think of as gods were actually people from another planet (called Westil), who arrived here through magical “Gates.” Passing back and forth through these Gates gave people with minor or latent magical powers […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED) and Robert Thompson (RETIRED)´s rating: 3, 4 | Orson Scott Card | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Stonefather by Orson Scott Card Runnel isn’t appreciated by his family or his little village. His father abuses him, his siblings taunt him, and even his mother doesn’t seem overly fond. So one day he walks to the edge of his village and just keeps going. He’s never been outside of his village before, so […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Orson Scott Card | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Swarm by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston Orson Scott Card‘s ENDERVERSE has grown to sixteen novels and counting, along with several novellas and short stories, since he published Ender’s Game in 1985 (or if you want to go back even further, since the original “Ender’s Game” short story was published in Analog magazine […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 3.5 | Orson Scott Card | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
A Town Divided by Christmas by Orson Scott Card The scientific method collides with southern small town culture and a local mystery in Orson Scott Card’s charming and insightful novella A Town Divided by Christmas (2018). Two post-doc academics ― Dr. Delilah (Spunky) Spunk, an economist, and Dr. Elyon Dewey, a geneticist ― are sent […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Orson Scott Card | Edge, Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card Fourteen-year-old Ezekiel has a special power. Not a superpower; though, just a small power: he’s drawn to lost items — hair scrunchies, toys, and even bikes — combined with the innate knowledge of who the owners are and where to go to return the items, and a strong […]
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The Last Days of Jericho by Thomas Brookside (2010) The Last Days of Jericho is Thomas Brookside‘s follow up to his incredibly creative and well-executed novella De Bello Lemures, or The Roman War Against the Zombies of Armorica. Let’s make one thing clear: Thomas Brookside may be self-published, but his writing is as crisp and descriptive […]
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams John Joseph Adams assembles a wide variety of apocalypse-related fiction in Wastelands. some of which are older than I am, while others are more recent. What you end up with is a diverse anthology covering topics such as religion, war, and exploration while containing horror, […]
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Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories edited by John Joseph Adams Even people who don’t usually read science fiction will often be familiar with a few classic titles in the “dystopian SF” sub-genre. After all, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and of course the famous Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World are some of the few SF titles […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED) and Ruth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 5 | Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Vaughn, Charles Coleman (C.C.) Finlay, Cory Doctorow, Genevieve Valentine, Harlan Ellison, Kate Wilhelm, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Paolo Bacigalupi, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Tobias Buckell, Ursula K. Le-Guin | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
Epic: Legends of Fantasy by John Joseph Adams (editor) Epic: Legends of Fantasy, edited by John Joseph Adams, is an anthology of stories written by some of the biggest names in epic fantasy. The book clocks in at over 600 pages not just because it’s very difficult to tell short epic stories (though some of […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 4.5 | Aliette De-Bodard, Brandon Sanderson, Carrie Vaughn, George R.R. Martin, Juliet Marillier, Kate Elliott, Mary Robinette Kowal, Melanie Rawn, Michael Moorcock, N.K. Jemisin, Orson Scott Card, Paolo Bacigalupi, Patrick Rothfuss, Robin Hobb, Tad Williams, Trudi Canavan, Ursula K. Le-Guin | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Oz Reimagined edited by John Joseph Adams Oz Reimagined is a collection of tales whose characters return as often, if not more often, to the “idea” of Oz as opposed to the actual Oz many of us read about as kids (or adults) and even more of us saw in the famed MGM version of the […]
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: Volume 30 edited by Dave Wolverton The Writers of the Future contest is held in high regard within the SFF field, largely because of the many fine writers who have had a boost to their early careers through it and the prominence of the judges (and despite […]
Read MoreMike Reeves-McMillan´s rating: 4 | L. Ron Hubbard, Mike Resnick, Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
We’re always on the lookout for horrible SFF covers that need renaming. When we tweeted our review for this book last week, author Myke Cole pointed out that this awful cover is really begging to be renamed: Folks. This cover is crying out for alternate titles. Something more clever than “Behold! My glowing junk!” Please. […]
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The Worthing Chronicle — (1979-1990) Publisher: It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful — they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who […]
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