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Title	:	Songmaster
Author	:	Orson Scott Card
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	December 6th 2002 by Orb Books (first published July 1980)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Adult. Music. Speculative Fiction

Songmaster

Orson Scott Card

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 7023 Users | 336 Reviews

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An SF classic from the author of Ender's Game.

Kidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation at the mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life has been filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any heard before. Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse, for the young Songbird can reflect all the hopes and fears his auidence feels and, by magnifying their emotions, use his voice to heal--or to destroy. When it is discovered that his is the voice that the Emperor has waited decades for, Ansset is summoned to the Imperial Palace on Old Earth. Many fates rest in Ansset's hands, and his songs will soon be put to the test: either to salve the troubled conscience of a conqueror, or drive him, and the universe, into mad chaos.

Songmaster is a haunting story of power and love--the tale of the man who would destroy everything he loves to preserve humanity's peace, and the boy who might just sing the world away.

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Original Title:	Songmaster
ISBN:	0312876629 (ISBN13: 9780312876623)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1981), Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award (1981)

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When I was a teenager, I read a collection of Orson Scott Card's short fiction, and the story that most intrigued me was Mikal's Songbird. Though many of his short works definitely have sinister elements, there was an undercurrent of discomfort in that story that kept Songmaster on my mental reading list for about ten years. And reading it now, there certainly remains something deeply sinister about it. From the very beginning, Card's child protagonist is uncomfortably sexualized, not only by

Card is amazingly creative and I love most of his earlier scifi works though I am not as interested in his recent historical works. It has always surprised me that he is mormon when his books are so open minded and full of possibilities beyond what most people can imagine. My mom is a composer and recommended the book to me. I found it to be very accurate in the portrayal of an artistic person and the sensibility that goes with being musically inclined.

This book was weird, but I liked it overall. Orson created a futuristic world where on one of the planets the children become singers like no others. They can control people with their songs or even ruin them, but mostly they try to use them for good. In this book you follow the greatest songbird their world has ever known and the sad tale that is his life.

Every time I see an Orson Scott Card book, I think, "Hey, why haven't I read that yet?" There are in fact dozens of his books that I have not delved into, and today I was reminded why I'd lost my enthusiasm for this talented writer.Songmaster, is one of his earliest novels and I found it disturbing on so many levels. Oh, it starts out benign enough, with life in the song house as Anssett learns to sing. As soon as we get into this story, however, it's over and Scott has begun another plot which

this is truly my favorite scifi book of all time. it's got orphaned children, gay-questioning sex, weird psychic powers, enough tragedy to make me cry, and bards. How could I not love it? well, I did when I was 14. I really should qualify my sci-fi reviews since many of these are from my teenage years and it could be that if I read them now I'd be like huh what is this crap, like when you watch a cartoon movie like The Last Unicorn as an adult and think now why does that tree have boobs? But I

Nutshell: school for the Euterpean arts involves itself in galactic politics, leading to homophobic crimes, coups d'etat, &c., 20,000 years in the future. Principal is a pre-Ender wunderkind, a victim of child trafficking. Euterpeans know the victim status and the location of the grieving parents, but elect to ignore it all (69). In addition to being scum, they're also stupid, insofar as their constitution selects the new schoolmaster by virtue of whoever finds the corpse of the current

I got 85% into it and had to give up. What a waste of time.Ansset is a completely unrelateable character. Not only does he never stay one age for more than a few chapters, but he is estranged from friends, even more than Ender. He is an alien.The culture was too free with sex, too, which is disturbing in the least. And the way they treat children at the songhouse is disturbing. There was little loyalty among friends or lovers, even with "good" characters.I disliked Mikal, and Riktors, and