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Space Boy

By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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 Is it space travel that children dream of, or merely visiting other worlds? Todd had always set his heart on being an astronaut, but when he meets an alien and travels to another world, he doesn't use a spaceship; he just hangs out in his own back yard.

In Space Boy, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, takes listeners into a strange and wonderful future, where people from another world regularly visit Earth, usually without being noticed. And when humans travel to their world, they find themselves dangerously weak and powerless, until Todd finds a way to set both worlds to rights.

By turns funny and painful, Space Boy is Card at his best, exploring human nature for the entertainment of readers young and old.

©2007 Orson Scott Card (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc. Science Fiction & Fantasy Heartfelt Funny Kids Fiction Space Science Fiction Anthology

Critic Reviews

"Card works both pathos and humor into this tale of a family pulling together to rescue one of their own." ( Publishers Weekly)
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Sort of what you might expect from OSC but I suspect that this was more of an exercise for his daughter before tackling something grander and more expansive.
As a free plus catalogue listen it is a good way to pass some time when you want to hear a story but not have to think too hard...

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