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Title details for Wyrms by Orson Scott Card - Available

Wyrms

by Orson Scott Card
Emily Janice Card
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The sphere is alien in origin but has been controlled by man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this constructed world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring salvation—or eternal destruction of the cosmos.

Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family; for she believes that duty to one's race is more important than duty to one's self. But the time for prudence has passed, and Patience must journey to the heartsoul of the planet with a small band of companions to confront her destiny—and the destiny of her world.

Wyrms is a science fiction epic with mythological style that is sure to enchant listeners with its unique world and premise.

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  • Release date

    July 1, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781624608544
      • File size: 331948 KB
      • Duration: 11:31:33

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Text Difficulty: 9-12

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      WYRMS was originally published in 1987, not long after ENDER'S GAME, Card's most popular novel. This novel also features a child as the main character, a teenager named Patience, who, a religious person tells her, is destined to give birth to Kristos, the potential savior of the world. Emily Janice Card narrates, providing the perfect voice for the character of Patience. One of the most interesting aspects of the WYRMS world is that people's heads can be animated after death. Using air bladders to push air past a severed head's vocal cords allows one to hear them speak. Emily Card's performance of a scene in which Patience has a difficult conversation with her father's head is distinctive and chilling. S.D.D. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 1, 1987
      With his recent novels, Ender's Game (winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards) and Speaker for the Dead (a nominee for this year's awards), Card has joined the front rank of SF writers. His new fantasy adventure is again a progress toward enlightenment that severely tests its protagonist. Teenage Patience has received a worldly education beyond her years but it may not save her when she belatedly learns that she is "seventh seventh seventh daughter,'' the person who has been prophesied to save or destroy the world of Imakulata. Her journey to the Unwyrm, the native lifeform that has waited thousands of years for her, is by turns a romantic, comic and nightmarish education/final exam/rite of passage in a world of noble goblins and idiot savants, where the dead guide the living and where human and alien have intermingled in bizarre and now inseparable ways. A wonderful, textured fable.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 7, 2003
      Orson Scott Card fans will welcome the reissue of Wyrms (1987), an early SF novel by the bestselling author of Shadow Puppets (Forecasts, July 15, 2002) and other titles in his Ender series. "A wonderful, textured novel," PW said of this futuristic tale of honor and self-sacrifice.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Text Difficulty:9-12

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