06 June 2007

The Cranning: My Revelation This Morning

The Cranning, the call to an unknown place. A place of wonder and fantasy. Like the Bookstore. I have this Cranning call to driving me onward into the place I desire so deeply on my heart. Into one of Card's books. I have found that to look up one of Card's books is to want it, to need it. The Cranning is that feel deep inside of oneself that won't allow you to go on without satisfying it.
I am certain that this feeling is definitely the driving force in my Orson Scott Card collection. The shelf grows larger by itself, my only conscious knowledge is the hole in my checkbook. I am so glad of the stack of books that I call a collection. Here take a look (this is not bragging, it is sharing an obsession)

My Orson Scott Card Collection

1. Ender’s Game (YA Version)
2. Ender’s Game (Adult Version)
3. Das Grosse Spiel
4. Ender’s Game (Audio Version)
5. Speaker for the Dead
6. Xenocide
7. Children of the Mind
8. First Meetings
9. Seventh Son
10. Red Prophet
11. ‘Prentice Alvin
12. Alvin Journeyman
13. Heartfire
14. The Crystal City
15. The Memory of Earth x 2
16. The Call of Earth x 2
17. The Ships of Earth x 2
18. Earthfall x 2
19. Earthborn x 2
20. Ender’s Shadow
21. Shadow of the Hegemon
22. Shadow Puppets
23. Shadow Puppets (1st Edition)
24. Shadow of the Giant
25. Shadow of the Giant (1st Edition)
26. Hart’s Hope
27. Enchantment
28. Magic Street
29. Treason
30. Wyrms
31. Songmaster
32. Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
33. Empire (1st Edition)
34. Hot Sleep (1979)
35. The Worthing Saga
36. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
37. Homebody
38. Treasure Box
39. Lost Boys
40. Rebekah
41. Rachel and Leah
42. Maps in a Mirror (Paperback)
43. Saints
44. The Folk of the Fringe
45. Eye for Eye (CD)
46. Analog April 1978 (Happy Head)
47. Analog August 1977 (Ender’s Game)
48. Ultimate Iron Man (Volume 1)