The Changed Man: Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card Vol 1

By Orson Scott Card

Eleven chilling tales, including the author's introductions and afterword comments, provoke the dreaded dark side of the reader's imagination. Reprint. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812533658
• ISBN13: 9780812533651
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Maps

Excellent!! I have come to expect great stories from Card, and this didn't disappoint me. I found 'The Changed Man and the King of Words' the best, but they are all incredible. I recommend making a full collection of Card's work.No one else has mentioned it, so I will: this book is a section in Maps in a Mirror.

Dread

The copy I have says on the back that this is a collection of stories that all deal with the feeling of "dread". And even though I KNEW that, I still felt it, in every single story. Oh my god, where is he going with this? Or, worse: Oh my god I think I KNOW where he's going with this and I REALLY don't want it to go there...And I read them all together, in a couple days I'd finished the book. And even during the last story, I was still dreading what would happen on the next page. I didn't get used to it. I didn't feel disassociated from what I was reading.Card can really get under your skin, you know?

Classic Card

So the rating system isn't exactly fair. It's hard to judge a whole book of short stories. All are good. Most are VERY good. A few are exceptional. For example, the Changed Man and the King of Words. Of all the OSC short stories I've read (and I freely admit that I haven't read them all YET) this one was probably the best, sharing the #1 position with Dogwalker (in a different book). Then again, there may have been a little Classic/English-anti-science-major brought out by the story, but that only made, for a me, a great story greater. I don't actually think that's possible, but hey, it's my review. Either way, find yourself someone selling this book used and buy it, it's worth way more than I paid for it :)

Simply Stunning!

The Changed Man is an absolute rush of intense, dark creativity. There seems to be so many threads in the fabric of each story and it's so descriptive you can see every detail Card is writing about. It's especially frightening if you have a vivid imagination. You walk away from it saying 'What in the world did I just read?'

An incredible collection of intrest!

I am a big OSC fan. You can't expect me to hate any of his books, expecially this one, it was incredible easy reading and nontheless interesting for a set of short stories. Unlike most authors, OSC can really say a lot in little time, so even though they are short stories, the man does not disapoint.