Interior artwork credited to individuals and include: Tina Bear, Terri Windling, Alicia Austin, Geofrey Darrow, Val and John Lakey, Gini Shurtleff, Ron Miller, Victoria Poyser, Dileen Marsh, Greg Bear, Judy King-Rieniets and Michael Hague. Ford *Cockfight by Jane Yolen *From Bach to Broccoli by Richard Kerns *Dragon Touched by Dave Smeds" Martin *The George Business by Roger Zelazny *One Winter in Eden by Michael Bishop *A Drama of Dragons by Craign Show Gardner *Silken Dragon by Steven Edward McDonald *Dragon Lore by Steve Rasnic Tem *Eagle Worm by Jessica Amanda Samonson *The Dragon of Dunloon by ARthur Dembling *If I Die Before I Wake by Greg Bear *As Above, So Below by John M. "The Dragons are Coming! *The Ice Dragon by George R. Original Publication: Arbor House, July 1987 And Patience must journey to the heartsoul of this planet to confront her destiny.and the world's." But the time for prudence has passed, and that which has slept for ages has awakened. For she has learned the true ruler's honor: that duty to one's race is more important that duty to one's self.
Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father before her, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family. A legend as old as the stars rules this world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvation nor the destruction of the cosmos. "It is an alien sphere, but one controlled by Man for Millennia. And when he awoke, it was to a future he had never dreamed of." He established his colonists and his descendants and when he was sure that they would survive, he sealed himself in the last somec chamber in all the galaxy, triggered to awaken him when his world had built a new civilization. He vowed that his new world would be different from the stagnant one he had fled. "Jason Worthing was a telepath, and the best of the ark captains sent to seed humankind anew on a hundred new worlds. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with his wife, Kristine, where he writes a review column for the local Rhinoceros Times called "Uncle Orson Reviews Everything." He is the only author to be awarded both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award in consecutive years, for Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. He has chosen to do this for a variety of reasons and has said "I was trying to establish a separate identity in the marketplace, but for various reasons the marketing strategy didn't work as we'd hoped."Ĭard holds a permanent position as distinguished professor at Southern Virginia University, where he sometimes teaches creative writing and holds writers workshops. Over the years Card has written under a number of pseudonyms including: Byron Walley, Brian Green, Dinah Kirkham, Noam Pellume and Scott Richards. In October of 1983, he contracted the Alvin Maker books, allowing him to return to writing exclusively. He worked for several years on a contract with the Latter-day Saints writing audio plays but eventually had to stop freelancing and return to full-time employment, this time as the book editor for Compute! Magazine. It was purchased by fellow science fiction author Ben Bova and published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in August 1977. While working for Brigham Young University Press, Card wrote Ender's Game. Not long after he published his first work of fiction in the church's official magazine, Ensign. After his Latter-day Saints mission in Brazil, Card returned to Provo, Utah where be worked as a copy editor.
He began his writing career while attending Brigham Young University by adapting fiction for theater production and eventually writing his own full length plays. He is the great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, Card is an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Orson Scott Card was born Augin Greensboro, North Carolina.