Everyone is entitled to their opinions and I have no problem with them writing about those opinions and views even if they differ from my own. It takes away from the enjoyment of reading. Sure he weaves it into the story, but you can tell these are his views that he is pushing on the reader. Card has put a lot of political and religious rhetoric into this book. And sometimes writer's views on things get a little heavy handed. I think Orson Scott Card is a brilliant writer but sometimes brilliance does not translate well on the page. I remember really enjoy Pathfinder, but this one was a clunker. I actually forced myself to finish this after putting it down day after day. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.Ĭard currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.įor further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.įor an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s.

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.īesides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy ( Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels ( Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry ( An Open Book), and many plays and scripts.Ĭard was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. The adventure, suspense, and time travel continue in this second installment in the critically acclaimed New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling Pathfinder series. If Rigg, Umbo, and Param can’t work together to alter the past, there will be no future. Because although Rigg can decipher the paths of the past, he can’t yet see the horror that lies ahead: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling toward Garden. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh-a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive-but they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another.

But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls “an epic in the best sense.” When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. From the author of Ender’s Game, the major motion picture! A complex fate. Features a new exclusive introduction read by author Orson Scott Card.

Ruins by Orson Scott Card