Ruisselet, neuvième fils d’un paysan des montagnes, s’enfuit de son village et part découvrir le monde.Le monde est celui des mages de Westil.L’histoire, celle d’un adolescent, comme si souvent dans l’œuvre d’Orson Scott Card, confronté à la découverte de ses pouvoirs, de sa stature et de ses responsabilités.La tonalité, celle de la légende quand elle confine à la fable ou au mythe et quand elle adopte la musique si particulière aux grandes fantasies de Card, depuis Espoir-du-Cerf et Les Maîtres Chanteurs jusqu’aux Contes de la forêt des Eaux et à Trahison.À l’origine conçu comme une introduction aux « Mages de Westil », Père-des-pierres est un conte indépendant où l’auteur recourt à sa palette la plus personnelle et la plus fascinante.

Père-des-pierres

Card, après avoir publié La stratégie Ender en 1985, a créé, en 1987, une forme nouvelle de quête épique, aux franges de la mystique, entre Mark Twain et Le Seigneur des Anneaux, faisant des chroniques d'Alvin une des oeuvres majeures du genre.
Les Chroniques d'Alvin sont un cycle de romans de fantasy historique qui racontent la vie d'Alvin Miller, fils de meunier, septième fils d'un septième fils et par-là même destiné à détenir de grands pouvoirs.

1810, sur la frontière des pionniers américains. Promis à l'avenir mystérieux et grandiose d'un « Faiseur », si les forces du mal ne parviennent pas à le détruire, Alvin a dix ans. Le voici qui découvre le monde des hommes rouges dont l'existence se confond avec les rythmes de la nature et de sa « musique verte ». Nouvelles épreuves, plus rudes ; nouvelles révélations, plus extraordinaires. Après Le Septième Fils, Le Prophète rouge ouvre « Les Chroniques d'Alvin » à l'embrasement de l'Histoire, dans un récit magique et flamboyant.

Les chroniques d'Alvin le Faiseur Tome 2 : le prophète rouge

'The fifth and last volume in Card's sprawling Homecoming saga. More than parable, not quite allegory, Card's far-future religious saga manages, brilliantly, to be at once entertaining, unobjectionable, and edifying.' - Kirkus Reviews
'The conclusion of the story, in which the first born son of a former priest and leader sees the evil he has caused and selects his future, is vintage Card and a joy to read.' - Publishers Weekly
High above the Earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundreds of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. 
She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly - there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from those who followed Nafai or Elemak. But in all the long years of searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of Earth, the central intelligence that alone can repair the Oversoul's damaged programming.
The fifth and final volume in Card's majestic Homecoming saga.
Books by Orson Scott Card:
Alvin Maker novels
Seventh Son
Red Prophet
Prentice Alvin
Alvin Journeyman
Heartfire
The Crystal City
Ender Wiggin Saga
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender in Exile
Homecoming
The Memory of the Earth
The Call of the Earth
The Ships of the Earth
Earthfall
Earthborn
First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens

Earthborn

Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book here and here.From the author of "Speaker's for the Dead", and "Seventh Son", this science fiction thriller is set in the Caribbean where a US submarine is mysteriously attacked. Foul play by the Soviets is suspected, and the world draws close to nuclear war. But the answer has nothing to do with human deeds.

Abyss

au coeur de la forêt ukrainienne, le petit ivan découvre une jeune fille endormie sur un autel.
 une présence inquiétante le pousse à s'enfuir. des années plus tard, ivan revient sur les lieux. cette fois, il ose embrasser la belle... et se retrouve précipité mille ans auparavant, dans un monde parallèle où la sorcière baba yaga fait peser une terrible menace. une réinterprétation libre et magistrale de la belle au bois dormant, par l'un des auteurs de fantasy les plus talentueux au monde.

Enchantement

Du monde technologique de Capitole où le somec, la drogue qui donne l'illusion de l'immortalité, cimente tant bien que mal une société déshumanisée... A la communauté rurale de la forêt des Eaux où les descendants de Jason trébuchent sur leurs pouvoirs exceptionnels... Orson Scott Card met en scène les thèmes qui lui sont chers : le passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte, la recherche d'une harmonie des êtres dans la vie sociale. Neuf nouvelles qui forment l'indispensable complément du roman Jason Valois.

Geste valois 2: Contes de Capitole et de la forêt des Eaux

'Orson Scott Card made a strong case for being the best writer science fiction has to offer.' - The Houston Post on Xenocide
'The novels of Orson Scott Card's Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games and psychology.' - USA Today
TOGETHER THEY STAND - BUT CAN THEY PREVENT AN ATROCITY?
Ender and Valentine Wiggin: brother and sister whose lives have shaped history. Valentine is 'Demosthenes', whose subversive, incendiary writings fight the monstrous power of Starways Congress, masters of the Hundred Worlds. 
And Ender. . . As a child, Ender commanded a warfleet that wiped out a planet. The triumph of his life could be his fight to stop it happening again. It might be his tragedy that he cannot.
Congress has sent a warfleet to Lusitania, home to Ender, his family, two alien species and the deadliest virus ever known. The warfleet carries an order to destroy. To commit xenocide.
A sequel novel to the science fiction classic ENDER'S GAME - soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield
Books by Orson Scott Card:
Alvin Maker novels
Seventh Son
Red Prophet
Prentice Alvin
Alvin Journeyman
Heartfire
The Crystal City
Ender Wiggin Saga
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender in Exile
Homecoming
The Memory of the Earth
The Call of the Earth
The Ships of the Earth
Earthfall
Earthborn
First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens

Xenocide

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.Source: hatrack.com

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