The other day I went back to the Used bookstore. This time I went up to the LDS section. And I reaped the joys of Card-ness. I found a first edition of A Storyteller in Zion. It is in near perfect condition, and I can't wait to get eye tracks all over it. I know its just essays and such, but I am really excited. I feel like I haven't had a new Card book to read in ages.
I am planning on devouring it on my plane back to Illinois for Christmas. Hopefully (hoffentlich) I will be able to get quite far, so I can post a review. I am really excited...and I have an ample amount of time in which to do so since Jared has left for Oregon.
...By the way I would like to report successful brainwashing here in Utah. I have shared Maps in a Mirror with my roommates boyfriend. And currently he is quoting "But We Try Not to Act Like It" in a last-ditch effort paper. It's pretty amazing when you are not the one who says "I got to quote Card in my paper." It feels like a million gold stars!
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Orson Scott Card
You're Obsessed With Orson Scott Card When...
- you wander with EG conspicuously looking for OSC people
- your friends threaten you with destruction of your collection
- you think reading only 2 OSC books a week is BAD
- you can scroll through 3 pages of books on Amazon before you find one you DONT own
- you consider your bookshelf the most valuable thing in your room
- you can write every paper in class about Card
- you have to make sure your boyfriend is okay with your obsession
- you walk around saying, "I'm linked to Card's webpage."
- you watch God's Army, then run out and buy the novelization by his son
- you celebrate on August 24th
- you read the introductions of EG and Speaker over and over
- you found your new life calling in the Speaker intro
- and you finally realize Card is human (sorry!)
- and now you have to figure out what to say at Scard's speaking
- you have an entire jump drive full of Orson Scott Card info
- you buy first editions of books you already own
- you begin to buy Analog magaznes from 25 years ago
- you look up spark notes for Ender's Game
- and Speaker for the Dead
- even though you son't need them
- you can blame OSC for introducing you to hardcore Sci-fi like Asimov and Le Guin
- you know Card is called Scott by his friends and family
- which results in the nickname, Scard
- everyone in school calls him Scard
- even the teachers
- you own more than one copy of Ender's Game
- you can list the books by him that you don't own on a single sheet of paper
- you write letters to Card that you never intend to send
- you write letters to Card that you wish you could send
- you write your thesis on him
- you write a paper about him
- you research him on the internet
- you plan on attending SVU until you realize you don't have $16,000 for tuition.
- in your utter remorse you begin compiling all the information you can find about him
- you know where his section is in Borders
- you organize his section in Borders
- you own more books by him than Borders and Barnes and Noble combined
- he has a section in your bookshelf
- you deduce possible birthdates for Ender(and Peter)
- you buy a backpack with three days left of school because it's grey, orange, grey
- he has his own folder on your jump drive
- he has his own folder on your computer
- Ender also has his own folder
OSC Websites
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The Speaker
OSC books I've Read
- Ender’s Game
- Das Grosse Spiel (Yes, I can read it in German)
- A War of Gifts
- Ender in Exile
- Speaker for the Dead
- Xenocide
- Children of the Mind
- First Meetings
- Seventh Son
- Red Prophet
- ‘Prentice Alvin
- Alvin Journeyman
- Heartfire
- The Crystal City
- Dabel Bros. Red Prophet Vol. 1
- Dabel Bros. Red Prophet issue 5
- Dabel Bros. Red Prophet Issue 7
- Dabel Bros. Red Prophet Issue 8
- Dabel Bros. Red Prophet Issue 9
- Dabel Bros. Red Prophet Issue 10
- The Memory of Earth
- The Call of Earth
- The Ships of Earth
- Earthfall
- Earthborn
- Ender’s Shadow
- Shadow of the Hegemon
- Shadow Puppets
- Shadow of the Giant
- Hart’s Hope
- Enchantment
- Magic Street
- Magic Mirror
- Treason
- Wyrms
- Songmaster
- Lovelock (Book 1-Mayflower Trilogy)
- Empire
- Invasive Procedures
- Space Boy
- The Abyss
- Robota
- Zanna's Gift
- Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century
- Capitol: An Analog Book
- Hot Sleep (1979)
- The Worthing Saga
- Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
- Homebody
- Treasure Box
- Lost Boys
- Sarah
- Rebekah
- Rachel and Leah
- Stone Tables
- Maps in a Mirror (Paperback)
- Keeper of Dreams
- Listen, Mom and Dad
- Saints
- The Folk of the Fringe
- Storyteller in Zion
- The Great Snape Debate
- Eye for Eye (CD)
- Analog April 1978 (Happy Head)
- Analog August 1977 (Ender’s Game)
- Ultimate Iron Man (Volume 1)
- Dabel Bros. Wyrms (Issue 1)
- Dabel Bros, Wyrms (Issue 2)
- Dabel Bros. Wyrms (Issue 3)
- Dabel Bros. Wyrms (Issue 4)
- Dabel Bros. Wyrms (Issue 5)
- Marvel Wyrms (Issue 6)