Songmaster

Songmaster (1980) is a science fiction book by Orson Scott Card. The story of the Songmaster occurs in a future human empire, and follows Ansset, a young boy w…

Songmaster
AuthorOrson Scott Card
Cover artistLucinda Cowell
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDial Press
Publication date
1980
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages338
ISBN978-0-8037-7711-8
OCLC6015866
813/.54
LC ClassPS3553.A655 S66

Songmaster (1980) is a science fiction book by Orson Scott Card. The story of the Songmaster occurs in a future human empire, and follows Ansset, a young boy whose singing voice has the power of making people's feelings stronger. This makes him both a possible healer and destroyer. He is trained in the art of singing so perfectly that his songs can show ideas and feelings better than words. This book was based on Card's short story "Mikal's Songbird".

Literary significance & criticism

One reviewer said that Songmaster was "Quite possibly Card's best published work, ever."[1] The publisher described the story as "...a haunting story of power and love—the 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".[2]

Awards and nominations

As with some other Card novels (Ender's Game, for example), this book started out as a shorter story "Mikal's Songbird", which was a Nebula Award finalist in 1978.[3] Songmaster got the Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award in 1981.

Translations

  • Dutch: Zangermeester ("Songmaster"), published by Meulenhoff.
  • German: Meistersanger ("Master Singer"), published by Bastei Lübbe.
  • Spanish: Maestro Cantor ("Master Singer"), published by Nova Ciencia Ficcion.

References

  1. ↑ Alma A. Hromic, from a review Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine at sfsite.com
  2. ↑ Amazon, quoting Tom Doherty Associates copy
  3. ↑ Per Card's Archived 2006-04-21 at the Wayback Machine Hatrack river bibliography

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