A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card

By John Brown | April 7, 2009 - 1:47 pm |April 7, 2009 John's Reviews - books, movies, whatever

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I think this has just become one of my favorite Card stories (note: like Stonefather, this is NOT a novel, but another novella). I’m sure part of the interest stemmed from the religious angle. Many people of many differing faiths will see their religion in it, but there were so many of my own beliefs twisted →

Stonefather by Orson Scott Card

By John Brown | April 3, 2009 - 1:07 pm |April 3, 2009 John's Reviews - books, movies, whatever

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“When Runnel was born, he was given a water name even though there had never been a wetwizard in the family. In the old days such names were given only to those babies as would be sacrificed to Yeggut, the water god. Later, such names were given to those whould would live to serve as →