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Subject: Orson Scott Card recommendation
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 11:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 11:16:00 1985
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Some postings on this net had alerted me to keep an eye out for works by
Orson Scott Card, whom I had never read before.  By a stroke of serendipity,
the October issue of F&SF has a novelette of his in it and it's excellent.
(Damn.  I left the magazine at home and can't quite remember the title.)

It's a post-holocaust story, where the holocaust is truly incidental.  The
story focuses on a crippled teacher and the economics of a marginal farming
town.  The teacher eats food raised by the rest, even though he takes no part
in its production, because "he tills a far stonier and more barren ground."

The story investigates his relationship with his students and the community
as well as his inner wrestling with a set of massive handicaps.  Moving
without being maudlin or didactic.

Thanks to those who pointed in the direction of Card in the first place.

      -- Who, me?  I just got here myself. --  Jim Brunet

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