Signed 1st editions of Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card now available!
A powerful secret. A dangerous path.Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg’s strange talent for seeing the paths of people’s pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him—secrets about Rigg’s own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain.
Rigg’s birthright sets him on a path that leaves him caught between two factions, one that wants him crowned and one that wants him dead. He will be forced to question everything he thinks he knows, choose who to trust, and push the limits of his talent…or forfeit control of his destiny.
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Signed 1st editions of Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card now available!
VJ Books is now shipping signed 1st editions of Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card.
Danny North, descendant of exiled mages from another world, is taken aback when he comes into his true powers as a gatemage. He could reconnect his people with their long-lost home world, but gatemages are usually killed to maintain a fragile peace among the exiled clans. Fleeing his home, Danny finds refuge and slowly explores his potential, planning to open the first Great Gate in 14 centuries. Meanwhile, on the far-off world of Westil, a young gatemage named Wad finds love, conspiracies, and betrayal in a remote castle while struggling to recall his hazy past.
VJ Books Honors New York Times Bestselling Author Orson Scott Card as January 2011 Author of the Month
Press Release – Tualatin, Oregon – January 3, 2011
VJ Books announced today Orson Scott Card to be the featured author of the month for January 2011.
Nobody had ever won the Hugo and Nebula awards for a novel and its sequel, two years in a row, until Orson Scott Card received them for Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, in 1986 and 1987. But Orson Scott Card’s experience is not limited to one genre or form of storytelling. His contemporary novels Lost Boys, Treasure Box, and Homebody brought a powerful emphasis on character and moral dilemmas to the old-fashioned ghost story. And his contemporary novel, Enchantment, is a romantic fantasy that has Sleeping Beauty being awakened by an American graduate student in Ukraine in 1991.
Orson Scott Card’s awards are numerous. He has been nominated for, or won, the Hugo Award for Outstanding Science Fiction over a dozen times, and the Nebula at least ten times.
With two new books, Pathfinder and The Lost Gate, fans of this prolific author have a lot to shout about.
Pathfinder comes to us from the internationally bestselling author who brought us Ender’s Game, a brand-new series that draws readers into the world of Rigg, a teenager who possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people’s pasts. Rigg’s only confidant is his father, whose sudden death leaves Rigg completely alone, aside from a sister he’s never met. But a chance encounter with Umbo, another teen with a special talent, reveals a startling new aspect to Rigg’s abilities, compelling him to reevaluate everything he’s ever known. Rigg and Umbo join forces and embark on a quest to find Rigg’s sister and discover the true depth and significance of their powers. Because although the pair can change the past, the future is anything but certain…. (more…)
Book Synopsis – “Pathfinder” by Orson Scott Card
A powerful secret. A dangerous path.Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg’s strange talent for seeing the paths of people’s pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him-secrets about Rigg’s own past, his identity, and his destiny.
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VJ Books has received: Robert K. Tanenbaum – Capture, Dean Koontz – Breathless, Wally Lamb – Wishin’ and Hopin’, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen – To Try Men’s Souls, T. Jefferson Parker – Iron River, and Orson Scott Card – Hidden Empire.
VJ Books Begins Pre-sales for Hidden Empire by Acclaimed Novelist Orson Scott Card
With a raft of science fiction awards and a dedicated following, Orson Scott Card writes imaginative and compelling novels that also explore questions about morality and religion. His novel Ender’s Game, written in 1985, and its sequel Speaker for the Dead, written in 1986, both won Hugo and Nebula Awards. This unique combination of back-to-back, double wins of American science fiction’s top prizes confirmed Card as a one of a kind science fiction master
“For nearly a decade, Mr. Card has made himself available to sign for us,” said VJ Books co-founder, Virginia Lenneville, “and we are grateful to be able to offer such well-written fiction to our clients.” This newest release will be no exception, with autographed copies shipping in late December/early January.
In this sequel to Card’s bestselling novel Empire, Averell Torrent has become President of the United States, with enormous political and popular support and, if people only realized it, a tight grip on the reins of both political parties. He has launched America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance. Elsewhere, Captain Bartholomew Coleman, known as Cole to his friends and enemies alike, sees the danger Torrent poses to American democracy and the potential disasters involved in his foreign military adventures. Cole quickly runs afoul of Torrent; on the run, he and a few friends and allies seek proof he of how Torrent orchestrated the political takeover that included assassinating a President and nearly starting a civil war.
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Ender in Exile – Orson Scott Card
(Rocky Mountain News, Nov. 20, Mark Graham)
This 11th installment in the saga that began with Ender’s Game takes place between the first novel and the second, which is set nearly 3000 years after Andrew (Ender) Wiggin saved Earth and destroyed the aliens who had invaded. Fans have been begging since the 1980s for a novel that tells what happened in the interim.Though some of the other books in the series have hinted at these events, this is the first to go into detail and begins immediately after the events in the first novel.
Although Ender saved humanity, he has been condemned by many for his genocide of the aliens and, for political reasons, he can never be allowed to return to the planet he saved.
Off he goes with his sister to govern the colonists on a planet formerly inhabited by the aliens he destroyed.
Expect intrigue, deception, the answers to many questions and even a little romance as Ender gets his first kiss, in this excellent addition to the canon.
Final word: Ender’s Game is among the most popular science fiction novels of all time for readers of nearly all ages. Because of some plot and theme complexities, this book may demand more mature readers. In addition, rereading Ender’s Game before starting this one is an excellent idea.
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Ender’s Game’s Orson Scott Card Still Hoping for a Movie Adaptation
(amctv.com, Nov. 17, Clayton Neuman)
Hugo winning novelist Orson Scott Card discusses his recently released Ender sequel Ender in Exile, dishes on the movie and explains why he never wants to be a filmmaker.
Q: Tell me about Ender in Exile. Why did you return to this story?
A: I keep thinking I’m done. Ender’s Game ends with a dreamy kind of summary of Ender’s life after the war. It was interesting stuff, but I hadn’t really developed it, and I realized there was a story there about soldiers who can’t come home. The soldiers that we send off to war right now — the ones who live, come home. But in ancient times you could end up spending your life in a place that is so far from home. So with Ender himself being an exile, (more…)
Orson Scott Card – Ender in Exile
(Publisher’s Weekly, Sept. 29)
Set between Orson Scott Card‘s Hugo and Nebula–winning Ender’s Game (1985) and Speaker for the Dead (1986), this philosophical novel covers familiar events, but puts new emphasis on their ethical ramifications. In the wake of his victory over the alien Formics, 12-year-old military genius Ender Wiggins is hailed as a hero, but governments opposed to the International Fleet, which trained him, intend to portray him as a monster. Ender winds up as titular governor of one of the new human colonies, where he struggles to adapt to civilian life and ponders his role in the deaths of thousands of humans and an entire alien species. His agonized musings aren’t always sophisticated but possess a certain gravitas. Fans will find this offering illuminating, and it’s also accessible to thoughtful readers new to the series. (Nov. 2008)
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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, Speaker for the Dead, and the upcoming Ender in Exile, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.
Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts.
Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He recently began a longterm position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.
Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.