So, I'm searching this new website, deepdiscount.com (used to be deepdiscountdvd.com - HIGHLY recommend it!), and came across them selling an audio version of Eye for Eye.
I thought I'd read everything of OSC, and had never heard of this! Anyone know anything about it?
Posted by Survivor (Member # 233) on :
It's about a kid who can cause cancer with the power of his hatred. The most recent version I read (Card has redone it a couple of times) framed it as an interview/apologia, so it ought to make an interesting audiobook. I thought there was a short story version in Maps in a Mirror.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Hmm. It might be in Maps in a Mirror. I first read it around the time I first read "Fat Farm."
I don't know that it was that he caused cancer, but since his description of his power comes pretty early in the story I don't know if that qualifies as a spoiler.
Posted by Survivor (Member # 233) on :
Eh, he messes around with the biowhatsit energy of other people when he's feeling strong emotions, then. Effects vary, but mostly it's cancer.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
It won the Hugo award for best novella in 1988.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
It also used to be sold as a Tor "Double" with Lloyd Biggle Jr.'s "The Tunesmith."
Posted by DDDaysh (Member # 9499) on :
I read it with Tunesmith... it was very disturbing, but many Card short stories are... that's where the darker side seems to come out. I mean, not everything can be as light and cheery as Ender's Game.
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
I treat Card's short stories very, very gingerly after reading the one with the executions.
*shudders*
Posted by stihl1 (Member # 1562) on :
Eye is indeed in Maps. Can't remember which one, but it was one of my favorites.
Posted by Don Domande (Member # 8287) on :
Ah - I remember that one, now - didn't think of it since it looked like it was a full book rather than a short story. Might be worth getting, then...
I'd love to find an audio version of the entire Maps in a Mirror, but can you imagine how many discs that would involve?
Posted by DDDaysh (Member # 9499) on :
Oh come on, if they can put Rober Jordan's stuff on CD, they could do Maps... I think the biggest book on CD I've gotten was near 30.