Card, Orson Scott / Кард, Орсон Скотт - Собрание сочинений (192 произведения) [1979-2022, fb2/epub ENG]

Treason (= A Planet Called Treason) 1988, fb2; 2009, epub, ISBN: 978-1-4299-6715-0, Orb Songmaster / Песенный мастер 1980, fb2; 2002, epub, ISBN: 978-0-312-87662-3, Orb Hart's Hope 1983, fb2; 2003, epub, ISBN: 978-1-4299-6425-8, Orb Saints (= A Woman of Destiny) 2001, epub, ISBN: 0-312-87606-8, Forge Wyrms 1987, fb2; 2003, epub, ISBN: 978-0-7653-0560-2, Orb The Abyss 1989, epub (with James Cameron) Lost Boys 1992, fb2; 2013, epub, ISBN: 978-0-06-228448-8, Harper Treasure Box 1996, fb2; 2013, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-0-06-228569-0, Harper Homebody 1998, fb2; 2013, epub, ISBN: 978-0-06-228142-5, Harper Stone Tables 2000, epub, ISBN: 1-57345-663-2, Shadow Mountain Enchantment 1999, fb2; 2005, epub, ISBN: 978-0-345-48450-5, Del Rey / Ballantine Magic Street 2005, fb2; 2005, epub, ISBN: 978-0-345-48451-2, Del Rey / Ballantine Invasive Procedures 2009, epub, ISBN: 978-1-4299-6656-6, Tor (with Aaron Johnston) Zanna's Gift 2020, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-982696-83-2, Blackstone Publishing

Keeper of Dreams 2010, epub, ISBN: 978-0-7653-2414-6, Tor Collected Cards: The Almost Complete Short Fiction 2021, epub, Jerry eBooks

Magic Mirror 1999, pdf, ISBN: 0-87905-876-5, Gibbs Smith (with Nathan Pinnock) Jamaica / Джамайка 2007, fb2 Robota 2016, epub, ISBN: 978-0-486-80495-8, Dover Publications (with Doug Chiang) A Town Divided by Christmas 2018, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-5385-5687-0, Blackstone Publishing

SICK MONKEYS

This is a dangerous planet. Only a politician would try to tell you otherwise. And I'm not talking about wars—we're America, we win our wars. There are earthquakes, storms, volcanoes. Plagues can appear out of nowhere and slaughter millions of people. Blights can wipe out our crops. A meteor the size of a bus could hit the earth and send us back to the Stone Age. An extraordinary solar flare could destroy our electronics or heat our atmosphere so much our crops all die and we starve. And whom do we put in charge of helping us prepare to cope with such disasters? People whose only talent is for getting elected, and whose entire future consists of the run-up to the next election. It's not their fault—anybody who doesn't think and act that way won't win. It's the fundamental problem with democracy. No long-range thinking. So we're just sitting ducks, waiting for the next disaster. If you want to know what destroyed the Roman Empire, it was two plagues, a century apart, that killed about thirty percent of the population each time. That's why there weren't enough soldiers to keep the legions at full strength. That's why the emperors had to invite in the barbarian tribes to farm the abandoned land and fill the abandoned cities. Only now we're talking about the whole world. Whom do we invite in to settle the empty land when it's the whole world that's been depopulated? Chinma was the fourth son of the third wife of the aging chief of his small tribe in the Kwara state of Nigeria. There was no shortage of other sons, most of them adult, and nothing much was expected of Chinma. People constantly told him to shut up, even his mother, even when he wasn't saying anything. He got the idea at quite a young age that his very presence was annoying to everyone. The easiest way to avoid getting cuffed or shoved or slapped or yelled at was to disappear. And the easiest way to disappear was to go up. People didn't look up very much. He could go up into the trees and keep company with the monkeys. They yelled at him, too, and threw things at him, but they were more afraid of him than he was of them, so it was actually fun. That's why by the time he was twelve years old Chinma could climb any tree to the smallest branches that could bear his weight, and catch monkeys by enticing them with fruit while holding very, very still and looking in another direction until they were close enough for Chinma to make his grab. . . .

Chapter One - Bloody Mary

Little Peggy was very careful with the eggs. She rooted her hand through the straw till her fingers bumped something hard and heavy. She gave no never mind to the chicken drips. After all, when folk with babies stayed at the roadhouse, Mama never even crinkled her face at their most spetackler diapers. Even when the chicken drips were wet and stringy and made her fingers stick together, little Peggy gave no never mind. She just pushed the straw apart, wrapped her hand around the egg, and lifted it out of the brood box. All this while standing tiptoe on a wobbly stool, reaching high above her head. Mama said she was too young for egging, but little Peggy showed her. Every day she felt in every brood box and brought in every egg, every single one, that's what she did. Every one, she said in her mind, over and over. I got to reach into every one. Then little Peggy looked back into the northeast corner, the darkest place in the whole coop, and there sat Bloody Mary in her brood box, looking like the devil's own bad dream, hatefulness shining out of her nasty eyes, saying come here little girl and give me nips. I want nips of finger and nips of thumb and if you come real close and try to take my egg I'll get a nip of eye from you. Most animals didn't have much heartfire, but Bloody Mary's was strong and made a poison smoke. Nobody else could see it, but little Peggy could. Bloody Mary dreamed of death for all folks, but most specially for a certain little girl five years old, and little Peggy had the marks on her fingers to prove it. At least one mark, anyway, and even if Papa said he couldn't see it, little Peggy remembered how she got it and nobody could blame her none if she sometimes forgot to reach under Bloody Mary who sat there like a bushwhacker waiting to kill the first folks that just tried to come by. Nobody'd get mad if she just sometimes forgot to look there. I forgot. I looked in every brood box, every one, and if one got missed then I forgot forgot forgot. Everybody knew Bloody Mary was a lowdown chicken and too mean to give any eggs that wasn't rotten anyway. I forgot. She got the egg basket inside before Mama even had the fire het, and Mama was so pleased she let little Peggy put the eggs one by one into the cold water. Then Mama put the pot on the hook and swung it right on over the fire. Boiling eggs you didn't have to wait for the fire to slack, you could do it smoke and all. . . .

Добавлен новый роман The Swarm (в соавторстве с Aaron Johnston), входящий в новый подцикл Second Formic War цикла Ender's Universe

Добавлено: Card, Orson Scott - Robota - 2016.epub (with Doug Chiang)

Добавлено: Card, Orson Scott - Cruel Miracles (Maps in a Mirror) - 2010.epub (к имеющемуся fb2)

Добавлено: 01 Card, Orson Scott - Children of the Fleet (Fleet School) - 2017.epub

Замена: 02 Card, Orson Scott - Hidden Empire (Empire) - 2009.fb2 (с ошибками) заменен на 02 Card, Orson Scott - Hidden Empire (Empire) - 2009.epub (retail)

Добавлено: 01 Card, Orson Scott - Empire (Empire) - 2006.epub (к имеющемуся fb2) Card, Orson Scott - The Folk of the Fringe (The Mormon Sea) - 2001.epub (к имеющемуся fb2) Card, Orson Scott - Wyrms - 2003.epub (к имеющемуся fb2) Card, Orson Scott - Treasure Box - 2013.epub (к имеющемуся fb2) Card, Orson Scott - Stone Tables - 2000.epub

Добавлено: Card, Orson Scott - A Town Divided by Christmas - 2018.epub

Добавлено: 02 Card, Orson Scott - The Hive (Second Formic War) - 2019.epub

Добавлено: Card, Orson Scott - Lost and Found - 2019.epub

Добавлено: Card, Orson Scott - Zanna's Gift - 2020.epub

Переименовано: Card, Orson Scott - Ender in Exile (Ender Wiggin) - 2008.epub в 05 Card, Orson Scott - Ender in Exile (Ender Wiggin) - 2008.epub Добавлено: 06 Card, Orson Scott - The Last Shadow (Ender Wiggin) - 2021.epub

Добавлено: 01 Card, Orson Scott - Wakers (The Side Step Trilogy) - 2022.epub 02 Card, Orson Scott - Duplex (Micropowers) - 2021.epub Card, Orson Scott - Collected Cards_ The Almost Complete Short Fiction - 2021.epub (сборник журнальных публикаций, Jerry eBooks) Переименовано: Card, Orson Scott - Lost and Found - 2019.epub в 01 Card, Orson Scott - Lost and Found (Micropowers) - 2019.epub

Добавлено: Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game_ The Three Editions - 2013.epub (Jerry eBooks, рассказ 1977 года, роман 1985 года и перерабртанная версия 1991 года) Card, Orson Scott - Magic Mirror - 1999.pdf (иллюстраций больше, чем текста, поэтому остался pdf)