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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

436.0. "Speaker For The Dead" by SPMFG1::CHARBONND (Shakin' the bush, boss) Tue Feb 03 1987 09:49

    Idon't usually agree with jacket blurbs, but I just
    saw one that was right on the money.
    
    "Speaker For The Dead" not only completes "Enders' Game"
    it transcends it." FANTASY REVIEW
    
    I liked EG very much, so did a lot of others (Hugo AND
    Nebula). SFTD is better. It completes, and it heals. 
    the insights of EG are developed even more here. Andrew
    Wigger is older,wiser, and still sorrowing over an inno-
    cent mistake. Healing another such, he finds his own peace.I
    am oversimplifying, but I hate spoilers. I can only say
    that Orson Scott Card has put himself in line for another
    grand slam. Check it out.
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436.1Hivequeen LivesZEPPO::TASCHEREAUTue Feb 03 1987 10:166
    The Science Fiction Book Club offers both Ender's Game and
    Speaker For The Dead in a 2-in-1 volume (hard cover of course)
    titled: Ender's War.  It's good reading and only costs about
    $4.95 if I remember correctly.
    
    -Steve
436.2ON THE OTHER HAND ...USMRW2::KSHERMANFri Jul 31 1987 16:1111
    Different views are the spice of life.
    
    Enders' Game was readable; Speaker for the Dead went into my
    wastebasket after page 60 or so. And I HATE to throw-away any book.
    
    
    1/2* out of ****.
    
    
    KBS
436.3Devil's Advocate criticism?POLAR::ROTORNO MATTER WHERE YOU GO ... THERE YOU AREFri Oct 30 1987 16:477
    I can only assume you are trying the tried and method of critizing
    great literature as an excellent intellectual device.
    re: 436.1
    If you wish to read my views on "Speaker For The Dead" and Orson
    Scott Card, please read 416.8 on conference DSSDEV::BOOKS
    Cheers Dave
436.4Sequels to SFTDSWSCIM::GEOFFREYJIMTue Apr 19 1988 09:158
    
    
    	Has anyone read "wyrms or "Reel Prophet" by O.S. Card and if
    	so are either of these books a sequel to SFTD ? Even if they
    	are not sequels are they any good ?
    
    						Thanks,
    						  jim
436.5One is sequel, but not to SFTDTALLIS::SIGELTue Apr 19 1988 12:019
re .4

"Red Prophet" is the sequel to Card's "Seventh Son", in the "Tales of 
Alvin Maker" series.  "Wyrms" is a stand-alone novel.  I haven't read the
latter, but I can heartily recommend both novels released thus far in
the "Alvin Maker" series, and I understand that there are three or four more
novels to come.

				Andrew
436.6SOFTY::HEFFELFINGERTracey Heffelfinger, Tech SupportFri Apr 22 1988 12:4614
    	If I remebre correctly from hearing OS Card talk at Worldcon
    '86, there are/will be 7(?) books in the Alvin Maker series.
    
    	I have read Wyrms.  It is a standalone.  It is (at least in
    my opinion) worthwhile.  I have liked everything that I have read
    of Card's.  He seems to have a knack for writing *different*, thought-
    provoking worlds and cultures.                                
    
    	I am heartily impressed with Card both as a writer and as a
    speaker/reader.  (Got to hear him read aloud from Tales of Alvin
    Maker at the con.  Excellent reader!)                        
    
    tlh
436.7HANZI::SIMONSZETOSimon Szeto, ABSS/FER, HongkongSun May 01 1988 08:3217
    While I enjoyed Wyrms too, I thought that even though the style
    was very much Card, it somehow wasn't quite the same.  I didn't
    think to check when the book was written, and I don't have the book
    with me.  Songmaster seemed to me to me more like Card, as in SFTD,
    for example, although I saw in another note that Songmaster was
    from circa 1979.
    
    I'm looking forward to the Alvin Maker series, but I guess I have
    to wait until I'm in the U.S. to look for any of Card's books. 
    (I read Seventh Son while on a trip to San Francisco.)  Haven't
    found Card yet in the local bookstores.

  --Simon
    
    P.S.  Please ADD KEYWORD CARD if anyone writes any new topics on
    Orson Scott Card.
436.8LIVE CARDPOLAR::BARKERSMon May 02 1988 16:365
    On June 10-12 Orson Scott Card will be a guest writer at AD ASTRA(sic) 
    in Toronto.  If anybody cares they can CALL me at DTN 621-2140.
    Please do not send EMAIL.
    
    Dave Rotor