Series
Songmaster
Orson Scott Card · 1 novel · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 1978–1980
Ansset is a boy with a singing voice so perfect it can reach straight into people's emotions, raised from infancy at the Songhouse to become a 'Songbird' -- a living gift bestowed on the powerful until he comes of age. Orson Scott Card's Songmaster follows Ansset once he's given to the ambitious young emperor of a Rome-like galactic empire, where his voice becomes a tool of influence and vulnerability in equally dangerous measure. The novel grew out of Card's earlier stories 'Mikal's Songbird' and 'Songhouse,' which the catalog also lists under this same series.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Songmaster at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s2
- 1980s1
Shape
1 novel · 1 novella · 1 novelette
1 author
reads like:science fictionmusicother star systemsfar futureemotionaladult
Mood
Grim and intense: 33% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Mikal's Songbirddarkest · calmest
- Songmasterbrightest · most intense