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Title	:	Songmaster
Author	:	Orson Scott Card
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	December 6th 2002 by Orb Books (first published July 1980)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Adult. Music. Speculative Fiction

Songmaster

Orson Scott Card

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 7023 Users | 336 Reviews

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An SF classic from the author of Ender's Game. Kidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation at the mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life has been filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any heard before. Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse, for the young Songbird can reflect all the hopes and fears his auidence feels and, by magnifying their emotions, use his voice to heal--or to destroy. When it is discovered that his is the voice that the Emperor has waited decades for, Ansset is summoned to the Imperial Palace on Old Earth. Many fates rest in Ansset's hands, and his songs will soon be put to the test: either to salve the troubled conscience of a conqueror, or drive him, and the universe, into mad chaos. Songmaster is 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.

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Original Title:	Songmaster
ISBN:	0312876629 (ISBN13: 9780312876623)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1981), Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award (1981)

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This book was weird, but I liked it overall. Orson created a futuristic world where on one of the planets the children become singers like no others. They can control people with their songs or even ruin them, but mostly they try to use them for good. In this book you follow the greatest songbird their world has ever known and the sad tale that is his life.

This is, hands down, my favorite fiction book of all time. It's unfortunate that it is usally classified (and shelved) as science fiction, which it is not. The occasional travel from one planet to another does not science fiction make. This book alone made me an Orson Scott Card fan for life, and because of it I can forgive him the various other authorial sins which, IMHO, he has committed in his career since.I'm pretty sure I sought this out after reading "Mikal's Songbird" in a (science

reviews.metaphorosis.com 5 starsThe Songhouse trains singers - such good singers that the House is by custom inviolate. Yet when the tyrant Mikal requests a Songbird, the Songhouse gives him one, risking its long reputation for probity. Mikal's Songbird Ansset, who knows only how to sing, ends up at the focus of change in the Empire.I first read Songmaster in a Futura edition with 23 pages missing out of the middle. Intensely annoying, especially because I thought the book was so good, and

Ansset is the greatest Songbird ever created by the Songhouse. Songbirds are singers cherished for the beauty of their voices and their ability to sway an audience. Ansset has a voice that can sway the world through more than emotion; he can change the cosmos. Once perfected, Songbirds are gifted out to those the Songhouse deems worthy. They are sent off to colonized worlds in order to share their cherished talents. Ansset is crafted into the perfect Songbird for the Emperor Mikal, the vicious

This is a very, very strange novel. I've been a fan of OSC since I was very young, and since I was a young teen I've been very disturbed by the almost violent intolerance of homosexuality he expresses in his essays. This attitude seemed so at odds with the values woven into the stories of Ender and Bean - stories of children who are different, but good, and catch a lot of crap for it but save their tormentors anyway.This book answered some of my questions. No spoilers here, but suffice is to say

I've read and enjoyed most of Orson Scott Card's books. 'Songmaster' is not an exception. It's funny, though, that although many of Card's novels contain dark elements and portray gentle people who are compelled by circumstances or their own moral decisions to commit acts of great violence, this particular novel was really harrowing to read. Ansett, the novel's protagonist, is similar in many ways to Card's most famous protagonist, Ender Wiggen. Exceptionally gifted, required to bear heavy

For Card, this book was very lyrically written, which I loved. As always, he takes the very long view of humanity in time. However, the story is so intimate, you almost don't realize the broad scope he's writing in until halfway through. It took me a little time to really get into this book, but once I did, I couldn't put it down. The world and characters he created were rich and fascinating - definitely one of my favorites of his to date.