The Ships of Earth - Brossura

Card, Orson Scott

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ISBN 10: 0812532635 ISBN 13: 9780812532630

Casa editrice: Tor Science Fiction, 1995

Riassunto

Journeying across the desert when the City of Basilica falls, Wetchik, Nafai, and their families seek the hidden Harmony spaceport, finding their greatest hardship in the anger of their own people who are rebelling against a forced exile. Reprint.

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L'autore

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; his most recent novel, The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. 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, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.

Contenuti

Map		x
Notes on Parentage		xiii
Nicknames		xv
Notes on Names		xvii
Prologue		xix
The Law of the Desert		1	(23)
Binding and Unbinding		24	(31)
Hunting		55	(41)
The Tree of Life		96	(23)
The Face of the Keeper		119	(41)
Pulses		160	(42)
The Bow		202	(45)
Plenty		247	(21)
Perimeter		268	(49)
Shipmaster		317

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Tor Science Fiction
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0812532635
• ISBN 13: 9780812532630
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 362