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Cruel Miracles
The Maps in a Mirror Series (Book 4)
- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 31 December 2009
- Run Time
- 6 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features tales with religious themes, exploring the mysteries of ritual, sacrifice, faith, and death.
Mortal GodsIn our mortality lies our greatness.
Saving GraceA story of TV faith healers and those who follow them.
Eye for EyeAn abused child has the gift of creating illness and death in those he is angry with. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1988.
St. Amy's TaleA family destroys all technology.
KingsmeatWhen flesh-eating aliens take over a human colony world, one human forestalls total doom by feeding them non-essential bits of his fellow colonists.
HolyA seemingly pointless mission to bring an offering to another culture's shrine takes on unexpected meaning.
"I believe that speculative fiction—science fiction in particular—is the last American refuge of religious literature. Real religious literature, I think, explores the nature of the universe and discovers the purpose behind it."—Orson Scott Card, from his introduction
Critics Review
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“Definitive…A series of introductions and afterwords offering Card’s thoughts on his life and his writing are as absorbing as the stories.”
Publishers Weekly
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“The award-winning author of Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, and the Alvin Maker series demonstrates his talent for shorter fiction in this collection of 46 stories that range from fantasy and SF to horror and theological speculation…Detailed introductions and afterwords reveal insights into the thought processes of one of the genre’s most convincing storytellers. An important volume; for most libraries.”
Library Journal, on the whole anthology
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Details
- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 6 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 December 2009
- ISBN
- 9781481553759
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Science fiction, Anthologies: general, Science fiction, Short stories
Synopsis
This fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features tales with religious themes, exploring the mysteries of ritual, sacrifice, faith, and death.Mortal GodsIn our mortality lies our greatness.Saving GraceA story of TV faith healers and those who follow them.Eye for EyeAn abused child has the gift of creating illness and death in those he is angry with. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1988.St. Amy's TaleA family destroys all technology.KingsmeatWhen flesh-eating aliens take over a human colony world, one human forestalls total doom by feeding them non-essential bits of his fellow colonists.HolyA seemingly pointless mission to bring an offering to another culture's shrine takes on unexpected meaning."I believe that speculative fiction—science fiction in particular—is the last American refuge of religious literature. Real religious literature, I think, explores the nature of the universe and discovers the purpose behind it."—Orson Scott Card, from his introduction
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