brunvand@flairvax.UUCP (Erik Brunvand) (07/12/83)
I too am an Orson Scott Card fan and highly recomend
SONGMASTER as a must-read book. Another fine book of his is A PLANET
CALLED TREASON. The scenario is a planet colonized many years ago by
outcasts from society. Each of the different groups of people have
honed the "skill" that got them exiled to a new level of expertise.
Some very interesting extensions of power for political exiles, biologists,
etc. Its been a while since I read the book but I remember that I enjoyed it
enough to highly recomend it in particular and Orson Scott Card in general.
-Erik
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{ brunvand@sri-kl }jjm@hou5e.UUCP (07/13/83)
Orson Scott Card is indeed one of the best new writers of recent years. If you read ANYTHING by him, try to get a copy of his first science fiction story "Ender's Game" originally published in Analog magazine, and reprinted in an anthology of Card short stories. I started corresponding with Scott after that first story (a correspondence that I am ashamed to say I have let lapse). He is a very interesting person - a Mormon from Salt Lake City whose only previous writing experience was editing a Mormon magazine and writing religious plays! "Ender's Game" is about a group of young boys being trained in a special high-tech military academy, which is designed to find and train the next great military leader. Ender is that child prodigy, and the story of his rise through the ranks in school is well-paced and exciting. It would make a hell of a movie but Scott thinks that present film techniques are not up to the extensive zero-G sequences required. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Jim McParland ABI - Holmdel hou5e!jjm