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Songmaster

64.3% complete
1980
1982
2 times
See 11
Prologue
Esste
Chapters 1-26
Mikal
Chapters 1-23
Josif
Chapters 1-10
Kyaren
Chapters 1-5
Rruk
Chapters 1-11
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Copyright © 1978, 1979, 1980, 1987 by Orson Scott Card
To Ben Bova,
a songmaster who takes as much care
to develop younger voices
as to sing his own songs.
Nniv did not go to meet Mikal's starship.
May contain spoilers
And now a powerful undercurrent in those voices would be Ansset's life, which he had given them irrevocably, forever theirs and forever powerful and forever full of beauty, pain, and hope.
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Added: 29-Dec-2002
Last Updated: 19-Mar-2023

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 01-Oct-1987
Tor Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Oct-1987
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$3.95
Pages*:
377
Read:
2 times
Reading(s):
1)   1 Jan 1982 - 1 Jan 1982
2)   9 Mar 2021 - 24 Mar 2021
Internal ID:
1736
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-812-53255-4
ISBN-13:
978-0-812-53255-5
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Dennis Nolan  - Cover Artist
"Orson Scott Card is a fine writer, with great insight, great idealism and love." - Science Fiction Review

SONGMASTER

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 developes 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 audience feels and, by magnifying their emotions, use his voice to heal - or to destroy.  When it is discovered that he 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 conquerer, or drive him, and the universe, into mad chaos.

The Songmaster is a haunting story of power and love - a 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.  Orson Scott Card is the award-winning author of Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.
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Notes and Comments:
First Tor printing: October 1987
First printing based on the number line
Canada: $4.95
Canada ISBN 08123532562

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Author(s)

Orson Scott Card  
Birth: 24 Aug 1951 Richland, Washington, USA

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