The Folk Of The Fringe

Card, Orson Scott

ISBN 10: 0099734400 / ISBN 13: 9780099734406

Published by Random House / Arrow / Legend, 1991

About this Item

© 1990: A collection of 5 short stories by Orson Scott Card. 1st printing of 1991 edition:- Contents: West / Salvage / The Fringe / Pageant Wagon / America:- Synopsis: Only six missiles flew in World War III, but that was enough. All over North America, people are relearning the survival skills of the first settlers. Eking a living from the land, they band together in city-sized communities that sustain the traditions of faith and law against the predators beyond their boundaries. For those who chafe at the old rules there is the dangerous trek west to an oasis of peace and plenty for anyone willing to help make the desert bloom. Yet even in a haven, there are always misfits. They are the folk of the fringe:- Review(s): "A world-class talent" - Booklist / "Card has joined the front rank of SF writers" - Publishers Weekly:- (original cost £3.99).

Seller Inventory # 11.001.00321

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Folk Of The Fringe
• Publisher: Random House / Arrow / Legend
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099734400
• ISBN 13: 9780099734406
• Binding: Paperback: 7" x 4¼"
• Illustrator: Cover Art: Fred Gambino
• Edition: 1991 Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear
• Weight: 0.18 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Written by the author of "Ender's Game", "Speaker for the Dead" and "Seventh Son", this futuristic adventure tells about the dangerous trek to the Rocky Mountains made by thousands so as to escape World War III. There are some people who just don't fit in. These are the folk of the fringe.

About the Author

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; his most recent novel, The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.