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The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989
Orson Scott Card, the winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for fiction, and Martin H. Greenberg, editor/author of over 100 different short story and novella anthologies, have teamed together to produce the Dercum Value Collections. Each volume in the series contains four ninety-minute cassettes, with six hours of some of the best stories in the genre, for under $20! These collections are not available in book form they were selected and recorded especially for Dercum Audio. The first of three fantasy value collections, this volume includes seven critically acclaimed authors and their stories read in their entirety. It includes such classics as Perpetuity Blues by Neal Barrett, Jr. and Maxie Silas by Augustine Funnell.
- GenresFantasy
Audio Cassette
First published April 1, 1990
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About the author
Orson Scott Card
886 books20.7k followersOrson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. He is (as of 2023) the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003).
Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; his opposition to homosexuality has provoked public criticism.
Card, who is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Utah and California. While he was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), his plays were performed on stage. He served in Brazil as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and headed a community theater for two summers. Card had 27 short stories published between 1978 and 1979, and he won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1978. He earned a master's degree in English from the University of Utah in 1981 and wrote novels in science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, and historical fiction genres starting in 1979. Card continued to write prolifically, and he has published over 50 novels and 45 short stories.
Card teaches English at Southern Virginia University; he has written two books on creative writing and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest. He has taught many successful writers at his "literary boot camps". He remains a practicing member of the LDS Church and Mormon fiction writers Stephenie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson, and Dave Wolverton have cited his works as a major influence.
Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; his opposition to homosexuality has provoked public criticism.
Card, who is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Utah and California. While he was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), his plays were performed on stage. He served in Brazil as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and headed a community theater for two summers. Card had 27 short stories published between 1978 and 1979, and he won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1978. He earned a master's degree in English from the University of Utah in 1981 and wrote novels in science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, and historical fiction genres starting in 1979. Card continued to write prolifically, and he has published over 50 novels and 45 short stories.
Card teaches English at Southern Virginia University; he has written two books on creative writing and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest. He has taught many successful writers at his "literary boot camps". He remains a practicing member of the LDS Church and Mormon fiction writers Stephenie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson, and Dave Wolverton have cited his works as a major influence.
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May 20, 2012
"The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year" was a short-lived anthology series exclusive to audio cassette, long out of print and next to impossible to find online. Recently, I had the pleasure of listening to an mp3 rip of their release for 1989. It was a great collection of stories, ranging from the dramatic story of a psychic running from love in "Prescience", to coming-of-age story of a young girl in "Jack Straw", to the bizarre detective story "A Dirge in Clowntown".
I am still in debate over which was my favorite, which I suppose is the reason I enjoyed the anthology so much. My only issue was the audio quality, but even that was passable by the standards of recordings of the time. I really hope that Orson Scott Card and the other people involved in the series re-release the series thus allowing a new generation of readers to listen to such wonderful tales.
I am still in debate over which was my favorite, which I suppose is the reason I enjoyed the anthology so much. My only issue was the audio quality, but even that was passable by the standards of recordings of the time. I really hope that Orson Scott Card and the other people involved in the series re-release the series thus allowing a new generation of readers to listen to such wonderful tales.
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