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Don Domande
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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?

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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.
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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.

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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.
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It won the Hugo award for best novella in 1988.
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It also used to be sold as a Tor "Double" with Lloyd Biggle Jr.'s "The Tunesmith."
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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.
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I treat Card's short stories very, very gingerly after reading the one with the executions.

*shudders*

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Eye is indeed in Maps. Can't remember which one, but it was one of my favorites.
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Don Domande
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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?

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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.
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