Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show by Bradley P Beaulieu

Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show (Unabridged)
by Orson Scott Card, David Farland, Tim Pratt, James Maxey
Narrated by J. Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Emily Janice Card, Mark Deakins, Don Leslie, Rosalyn Landor, Stefan Rudnicki
Product Details
Audio Length: 12 hours and 15 min.
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Language: English
Publisher’s Summary
Best-selling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine  Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing  submissions from well-known science fiction and fantasy writers, as well  as fostering some amazing new talents. This collection contains some of  the best of those stories from the past year.
There is fiction from David Farber, Tim Pratt, and David Lubar among  others, also four new Ender’s Game universe stories by Card himself.  This collection is sure to appeal to Card’s fans and be a great  ambassador to them for these other talented writers.
2008 Orson Scott Card; (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The first collection of short stories from online magazine Orson Scott  Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show (www.oscims.com), launched in 2005,  features noteworthy SF and fantasy stories from a bumper crop of  talented new authors. Four new Enderverse stories from Card will  initially draw genre fans, but the stories from lesser-known writers are  the compilation’s real driving force. James Maxey’s provocative To Know  All Things That Are in the Earth takes a decidedly skeptical look at  the Rapture; David Farland’s The Mooncalfe puts an interesting—and  unique—spin on oft-trod Arthurian legend; and Tom Barlow’s brilliantly  sardonic Call Me Mr. Positive explores isolation on a deep space  mission gone tragically awry. If the quality of these stories is any  indication, IGMS has as much promise as the newcomers it showcases.  (Aug.)
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From Booklist
This collection of 17 stories from Card’s e-zine takes its title from  his belief that writers getting readers to suspend disbelief is like  old-fashioned medicine-show hawkers convincing customers that their  patented elixirs will work. On the whole, he and Schubert have selected  well, even if 5 of the 17 are Ender universe stories by Card himself.  The best of those is Pretty Boy, about one of Ender’s opponents and of  a particularly horrifying form of child abuse. Highlights among the  remaining dozen entries are Aaron Johnson’s comics adaptation of  Card’s Fat Farm; Brad Beaulieu’s In the Eyes of the Empress’s Cat,  which will not necessarily make cat lovers purr; The Mooncalfe, in  which rising fantasist David Farland takes a dark look at the Matter of  Britain; and David Lubar’s Hats Off, in which dealing with a bully  with magic backfires amazingly quickly. Adding value are the authors’  afterwords, which disclose the remarkable diversity of ways writers  reach the Web or the page and how Card influences new writers. –Roland  Green