Wyrms

Review "Another outstanding science fiction novel from the prize-winning author of Ender's Game...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."-- "School Library Journal""One of the most gripping SF adventure novels of recent years."-- "Science Fiction Chronicle"[Patience's] journey...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.-- "Publishers Weekly"Emily Janice Card narrates, providing the perfect voice for the character of Patience...Emily Card's performance of a scene in which Patience has a difficult conversation with her father's head is distinctive and chilling.-- "AudioFile" Product Description A legend as old as the stars rules the constructed world of Imakuta. When the seventh seventh seventh human heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvationor the destruction of the cosmos. About the Author Orson Scott Card, a New York Times bestselling author, has won several Hugo and Nebula awards for his works of speculative fiction. Emily Janice Card (a.k.a. Emily Rankin) is an actor, writer, and singer from North Carolina, now residing in Los Angeles. In addition to being a narrator, she has directed numerous audiobooks, including the 2007 Audie and Earphones Award winner Hubris, Legacy of Ashes by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, and Them by Nathan McCall. Her own audiobook narration has won her four Earphones Awards.