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Wyrms (1987) (edit title/settings)

by Orson Scott Card (Author) (edit contributors)

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A New York Times Best Book of the Year New York Times bestselling author of Ender’s Shadow The sphere is alien in origin, but has been controlled by man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this constructed world: When the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is... read more

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This book came out about the same time as the early Ender's Series books.

Teenage Patience has received a worldly education beyond her years but it may not save her when she belatedly learns that she is "seventh seventh seventh daughter," the person who has been prophesied to save or... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

This book came out about the same time as the early Ender's Series books.

Teenage Patience has received a worldly education beyond her years but it may not save her when she belatedly learns that she is "seventh seventh seventh daughter," the person who has been prophesied to save or destroy the world of Imakulata. Her journey to the Unwyrm, the native lifeform that has waited thousands of years for her, is by turns a romantic, comic and nightmarish education/final exam/rite of passage in a world of noble goblins and idiot savants, where the dead guide the living and where human and alien have intermingled in bizarre and now inseparable ways. A wonderful, textured fable.

Lady Patience is a memorable heroine, equally skilled as a diplomat and as an assassin. She is also the rightful Heptarch of the kingdom of Imakulata. Summoned by an irresistible call to Cranning, where the Unwyrm waits for her, she must either destroy or save the world. This is a fast-moving, absorbing story that asks readers to consider the relationship between government and the governed and between so-called superior and inferior races.

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  1. Orson Scott Card (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Tor Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0765305607
Page Count: 263

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  • Library of Congress: PS3553.A655 W97 1987
  • Dewey: 813.54

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