- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Tor Science Fiction (Dec 8 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812500865
- ISBN-13: 978-0812500868
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,423,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Best known for his novels, multiple Hugo- and Nebula-winner Card has written only a handful of short stories, collected in the present volume. Set in a post-World War III America, they again demonstrate Card is a natural raconteur, capable of vividly fleshing out his original characters in a few strong strokes, without hitting a false note or lapsing into sentimentality. Like Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz , of which this book is reminiscent, the stories are set against a background of the efforts to rebuild civilization by people of a religious community--in this case, Mormons. But unlike Miller's, Card's scenario is a bit more optimistic and is marked by an ecological consciousness that has been born in the hard decades between the publication of the two books. This is one of the strongest SF story collections of the past few years. The five tales complement each other and collectively have the impact of a novel. One of the entries, "Pageant Wagon," is published here for the first time.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there exited a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret, formed from the vestiges of Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. The climate has changed. The Great Salt Lake has filled up to prehistoric levels. But there, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again. A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful organizations, or even by great men alone. It must be renewed by individual men and women, one by one, working together to make a community, a nation, a new America.
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It was a good scavenging trip eastward to the coast that summer, and Jamie Teague had a pack full of stuff before he even got to Marine City. Read the first page
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1.0 out of 5 stars
If only I had known ...,
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This review is from: The Folk of the Fringe (Paperback)
I loved the Ender saga. I loved the Alvin books. I absolutely love apocalyptic fiction. If only I had read the epilogue, in which OSC describes this novel as LDS-fiction. Latter Day Saints fiction, in my book no more read-worthy than Christian fiction. Unfortunately, I was 40 pages into the novel and getting disgusted by the Saint this, Brother that, Lord and baptism this, before I scanned ahead to see if this was just current-character characterization. Nope. This is a religious book, not a very good one at that, and I doubt I'll bother reading the rest.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Mormons save America?,
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This review is from: The Folk of the Fringe (Hardcover)
In This collection of stories, not quite short stories and not quite novellas, we see the world after a great war which has thrown the world into chaos and turmoil. Many are still dying, and outside small cities where local governments rule and help maintain order, the bandits on the roads rule with terror.However, in Utah, the Mormons are building civilization out of chaos and forming government. The stories were somewhat interresting, however, deeply disturbing. I can't say I cared much for the horrid descriptions of terrible child neclect and abuse in the first story, even though the rest of the story was ok, certain sections left me feeling sickened and disturbed for days afterwards and having more than usual urges to go make sure my kids were tucked in and safely sleeping at night. It also had disturbing paralells to a local case I remember of child neglect/abuse of a little girl who was locked in a closet for years. The other stories are less emotion-enducing...as there's not really much to them. Basically people trying to fit into the Mormon run society and find thier place within, espically those who are not Mormon.
3.0 out of 5 stars
No way to soften the blow,
By General Pete (SC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Folk of the Fringe (Paperback)
These stories are bad I mean not just your average run of mill (haven't I read this somewhere before) bad. No, picture a mirror. Now this mirror is looking good you like the concept you get into a few pages and all is well but then something odd happens. The stories lack the essentials A. Details B. Background info. We are never really told how this war came about just that it happened. We are never given an details about the main players. You expect something good (espically considering that these stories come from someone like Orson Scott Card.) In the end the stories just don't deliver.
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