. Of these I enjoyed "Ender's Shadow" and "Ender's Game". I jut couldn't get into the others.I read "Ender's Game", Speaker of the Dead", and "Ender's Shadow". I also read the sequel to "Ender's Shadow" that I can't remember the title . Of these I enjoyed "Ender's Shadow" and "Ender's Game". I jut couldn't get into the others.
Some time ago I discovered Mr. Card's "Homecoming" series. I almost didn't get past the first book, "The Memory of Earth", but decided to give "The Call to Earth" a try. Then I got curious to just where the next book, "The Ships of Earth" would lead and have since picked up the next one, "Earthfall", that I'm looking forward to reading.
Just this week I finished another work by Mr. Card entitled "The Songmaster" about the life of a boy with a singing voice that could bring grown men to tears. A voice with power enough to affect an empire. It starts when Ansset is only 3 years old until he's an old man. Very, very well done for a stand alone novel.
Not long ago I also found another of Mr. Card's stand alone novel called "The Folk of the Fringe". It's about a group of nuclear holocaust survivors in what's left of the United States, and how they set about certain individuals finding a way to rebuild civilization. I haven't read this one yet either.
The thing is most of us are associated to Mr. Card through his Ender inspired books, but I'm discovering there's much more to Mr. Card's creativity.
I'll just add that I thoroughly enjoyed his fantasy novel, "The Treasure Box", too. Great read about a man who gets involved with a modern day witch.
All this makes me wonder if Mr. Card has written any other gems that I might not know about. Kinda makes me go hmmmmmm.
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Wyrms. Love love LOVE this book.
Treason.
Lost Boys.
His books about the women of the Bible - I'm an atheist, and I enjoyed them very much.
Card is extremely versatile, and a great storyteller.
My copy of THE LOST GATE is on its way to me, now. PATHFINDER is supposed to be more SF than Fantasy. I haven't decided on that one, yet.
Lovelock (co-written) didn't reach anywhere near its potential and made several sudden trips across the room while I read it, but many people loved it as is.
Homebody is romantic suspense/fantasy that can forever change the way one feels about historic houses and is a good follow-up to Treasure Box.
The Alvin Maker series provides an interesting twist on American political and religious histories and contributed to the name of this site.
*Edited because the author still has OCD tendencies.
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THE SONGMASTER, and the ENDER series (both those of Ender and his siblings and of Bean) are definitive examples as these type of characters. I would similarly recommend his The WORTHING CYCLE.
I enjoyed ENCHANTMENT as well, being a Yiddishe kopf and of Ukrainian ancestry. 
Respectfully,
History
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I've given a pass on the Ender's series, basically from not liking the first one when I saw in Analog way, way back...but a lot of stuff I "didn't get" has improved at second glance, and, given how much I liked some of what I have read, I might like it now. But there's so damned much out there that commands my attention!
Of course, now I need another book to pick up (once I finish this issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction). The writer in me says its time to read another author for another style. But the reader in me screams to buy another OSC book.
It takes place on an alternate US frontier?
At first I was thinking of an anthology of a mountain man in the old west someone wrote stories about. He rides a unicorn, knows how to fight a dragon, can influence someone by carving a likeness of them and carries a couple of different very old cups...one heals any injury if you drink out of it and the other well, lets just say you don't want to touch it. But then I remembered the real seventh son book. An interesting concept to say the least.
Some of the others mentioned I don't believe I have seen. "The Enders Game" is the most well known and is everywhere but some of his other books seem not to show up very often. But I need to see about finding certain ones.
My local Barnes and Noble only carry a few of his books. But that changes sometimes so it could be a good idea to check again.
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"Seventh Son" is part of the Alvin Maker series...which, of course, gives the name to this website, too...
I know I've seen that name...I mean the Alvin Maker series as I know I have seen the "Seventh Son" but was I right about where the action takes place.
Could be more than one "Seventh Son"
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My local Barnes and Noble only carry a few of his books. But that changes sometimes so it could be a good idea to check again.
And I was right "The Seventh Son" is the book I thought it was.
There were two others I recalled seeing before, one is about a planet of humans controlled by a computer who has started to malfunction.
Need to go back and buy a couple.
Yes, that is the "Homecoming" series I've been reading. I'm through the first three books and have the fourth, though it'll be awhile before I get to it. Too many books ahead of it yet waiting for me to read .
The first book in that series is "Memory of Earth", and it's best to read them in order. Just a suggestion, of course.
Interesting characters trying to figure out an interesting puzzle, with the "prologue"-type stuff told in bits and pieces at the beginning of each chapter (works better that way, I think).
This is the first in a series, and promises a lot more interesting stuff in subsequent books. But it doesn't leave me hanging--there's enough resolution to satisfy. I really hate cliff-hanger books.
And I've already posted this in another topic in this area, so my apologies if you've already read my post.
Don't think they had "Pathfinder".
But they did have a few books in the Ender series and a couple of others.
Lis
Of course, I might be a little biased....
I found myself bothered by the trend of having gay males renounce themselves to have families and children ((with a heterosexual woman)) to follow their genes, as if they simply couldn't adopt, or have children some other means. As a single character it wouldn't bother me, but as a theme it's a little disturbing. Even worse the heterosexual women in this situations who seem satisfied with a husband who isn't actually interested in them sexually. We see this both in Earthfall and the Shadow series.
Both Pathfinder and the Lost Gate, which I read in quick succession, I found to be not as sophisticated as his earlier work. There were no moral quandaries, but instead physical and scientific ones and this was much less compelling for me.
All in all though it's safe to say I'm obsessed with OSC.
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I'd like to see him finish the Rachel and Leah story, first, though.
And a story about Deborah and Jael would be interesting as well.
I also really love STONE TABLES, his take on the part of Moses' story not found in the bible.
Happy reading!