Archive for August, 2006
Speaker for the Dead
Title: Speaker for the Dead
Author: Orson Scott Card
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; Reissue edition (August 15, 1994)
ISBN: 0812550757
I’m on a roll – I’m reading all the Ender series by Orson Scott Card.
I think this is the second best book of the series, after Ender’s Game, the first book. Here, a new planet [...]
August 23rd, 2006 by alephnaught
We had a good Saturday – new glasses and good Italian
I had my eyes checked a week ago Friday, so we started looking for new frames. I wanted smaller round frames because the lenses get too wide if the frames aren’t round, and the ones I have now hit my eye brows.
We went to Eye Want on Milwaukee and found just what I wanted [...]
August 13th, 2006 by alephnaught
Shadow of the Hegemon
Title: Shadow of the Hegemon
Author: Orson Scott Card
Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; 1 Mass Mkt edition (December 9, 2001)
ISBN: 0812565959
There are a bunch of books in this series. I bought a three book boxed set of the Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon.
This book is about Achilles, the evil [...]
August 13th, 2006 by alephnaught
Ender’s Shadow
Title: Ender’s Shadow
Author: Orson Scott Card
Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Tor Books (December 15, 2000)
ISBN: 0812575717
This was a great book – perhaps not a fabulous as Ender’s Game, but this one made me cry at the end. This is the story of Bean, an undersized orphan child almost dead from starvation on the streets [...]
August 9th, 2006 by alephnaught
Ender’s Game
Title: Ender’s Game
Author: Orson Scott Card
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction; Reprint edition (July 15, 1994)
ISBN: 0812550706
This book has a great premise – Earth has fought the buggers, aliens that appear to be insect-like, twice. Earth is now trying to find someone to lead its forces against the buggers. “Ender” Wiggin [...]
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August 27th, 2006 by alephnaught