Short Stories/Novellas
In Orson Scott Card's classic apocalyptic science fiction novel The Folk of the Fringe , only a few nuclear weapons fell in America--the weapons that destroyed the nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there existed 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.
August 1986 issue. Cover by Terry Lee illustrating "Aymara" by Lucius Shepard. Other fiction includes: 987654321 [SF Puzzles] by Martin Gardner; A Worker in the Ruins of Ganymede (poem) by Robert Frazier; Hatrack by Orson Scott Card; Stop-Motion by Tim Sullivan; Strange Eruptions by Harry Turtledove; The Dragon's Head by Karen Joy Fowler; A Starpilot Muses on the Universal Tidal Pool (poem) by Robert Frazier; Elegy For An Alien (poem) by Hope Athearn. FEATURES include: Editorial by Isaac Asimov; A User's Guide to the Postmoderns (essay) by Michael Swanwick; On Books by Baird Searles; Gaming by Matthew J. Costello. Interior artwork by Terry Lee, Laura Lakey, Arthur George, Mason, Bob Walters, Nicholas Jainschigg.
In a post-apocalyptic America, Deaver Teague makes a living salvaging things left behind from before the war. When he hears some truck drivers talking about a hidden cache of gold in a Mormon temple in flooded Salt Lake City, he enlists some friends to look for it. This story is included in Orson Scott Card's collection The Folk of the Fringe .
Mick Winger is only seventeen?and already he's killed over a dozen people. Not on purpose; he never meant to hurt anyone. But when Mick gets angry, people die, even the people he loves the most. Now he's on the run from his own terrible talent, and from those who would use his power for their own obscene purposes. But Mick is not alone. There are others like him. And if he will not join them, they will make him pay?EYE FOR EYE. Orson Scott Card is one of the world's best-loved writers, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards two years in a row. He is author of Ender's Game and many NY Times bestsellers. Card's latest novels are Shadow of the Giant and Magic Street. This recording features Stefan Rudnicki who has narrated around 100 audiobooks, receiving an Audie for his solo narration on Orson Scott Card's Lost Boys and Earphones Awards for his productions of Card's Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead and Crystal City.
Megan Lindholm, 'A Touch of Lavender'; Robert Silverberg; Orson Scott Card, and Walter Jon Williams' 'No Spot of Ground.'
We all know Shakespeare's classic ghost story--the young prince Hamlet's dead father appears to him, demanding vengeance upon Hamlet's uncle Claudius, who has usurped the throne and, to add insult to injury, married Hamlet's mother. Hamlet dithers and delays, coming up with reason after reason to postpone his vengeance. But it's not for the reason Shakespeare told us. It's because Hamlet keeps discovering evidence that things are not quite what they seem in the Kingdom of Denmark--and never have been, throughout Hamlet's entire life. Once you've read Orson Scott Card s revelatory version of the Hamlet story, Shakespeare's play will be much more fun to watch--because now you'll know what's really going on.