The Folk of the Fringe

Five stars amy be a bit of overkill, but these linked stories are so imaginative that I felt the need to go overboard. I read this book just a few weeks after Cormac McCarthy's The Road. While the two cover a similar post-apocalyptic theme, the way they approach it could not be more different. It

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was amazing to me the role Card places on faith in preserving human culture at the end of the world. The stories are beautifully written and manage to hold on to hope.

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I was very disappointed in this book, after having loved "Ender's Game" by the same author. This is a series of short stories about a post-apocalyptic society, but what really irritated me was the 'preachiness' of the stories, the promotion of Mormonism as the answer throughout the first two

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stories. I have put it down and do not plan on trying to read it again, for that reason.

It's too bad, what a wasted opportunity for this author.

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A very enjoyable tale

A tale of post-apocalyptic America, that has some interesting characters and ideas and is well told through a set of short stories. Sometimes, it seemed, the stories did not connect very well. It's told in a Mormon context and pretty much tells the tale of "local" America--stressed. Although the

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apocalypse was nuclear, we saw no effects. All in all, a pretty darn average Mormon fantasy.

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Disappointing. West being the best; Parent Wagon being so bad that I quit part way thru. Exact opposite of what I expected from this author after reading "Ender's Game"