on October 21, 2008M at 10:52 am
I love Orson Scott Card. He is an amazing author of science fiction, fantasy and historical literature and I’ve been reading his books for years. I met him about 10 years ago at Full Circle Bookstore in
Oklahoma City. He was there signing books and promoting his new series “The Women of Genesis.” I waited to meet him in line behind some rather colorful characters. The woman in front of me in line regaled him with endless stories of her house cats, while I patiently waited to meet my hero. Finally, it was my turn. I came straight from work and had forgotten to bring any of my books with me for him to sign so all I had in hand was The Gazette with the ad for his appearance. I told him how much I admired his writing and asked him to sign the ad. He asked if I had his new book, “Rachel.” I was so poor back then, I couldn’t afford to buy a hard back copy of any book, even my favorite author’s brand new one. I doubt he knew that but for whatever reason, he asked his assistant to grab a copy of “Rachel” and signed it “To Heather, Be very careful on your journeys in
Egypt. Orson Scott Card.”
I was floored. I wanted to give him something, too, so I reached into my purse and pulled out a demo tape I had recently cut. On it, I sing standards such as “Stormy Weather” and “Someone to Watch Over Me.” It was lame but I wanted him to have it. He said he loved standards and would listen to it later that night in his hotel room. I wonder if he did. Well, I just stumbled across this Web site a blog for his book, “Intergalactic Mecdicine Show”.It’s full of book reviews and free stories written by Card and many others. It features a new story from the Ender’s World series (Ender’s Game is one of the best sci fi series ever). Check it out, buy his books, etc. OSC rocks. Heather
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An old friend let me borrow this book and it turned out to be quite a page-turner. Shortly after, I read the third in the series; Xenocide…also very good. I’m currently looking for Speaker for the Dead.