Wakers, Orson Scott Card
Wakers, Orson Scott Card
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Wakers

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/22/2022

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Enders Game comes a brand-new series following a teen who wakes up on an abandoned Earth to discover that he’s a clone!Laz is a side-stepper: a teen with the incredible power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. All his life, there was no mistake that a little side-stepping couldn’t fix.Until Laz wakes up one day in a cloning facility on a seemingly abandoned Earth.Laz finds himself surrounded by hundreds of other clones, all dead, and quickly realizes that he too must be a clone of his original self. Laz has no idea what happened to the world he remembers as vibrant and bustling only yesterday, and he struggles to survive in the barren wasteland he’s now trapped in. But the question that haunts him isn’t why was he created, but instead, who woke him up … and why?There’s only a single bright spot in Laz’s new life: one other clone appears to still be alive, although she remains asleep. Deep down, Laz believes that this girl holds the key to the mysteries plaguing him, but if he wakes her up, she’ll be trapped in this hellscape with him.This is one problem that Laz can’t just side-step his way out of.

About Orson Scott Card

Born in Richland, Washington, in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. The author of numerous books in several genres, Card is best known for Ender’s Game and his online magazine, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show (oscIGMS.com). He teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University and lives with his family in Greensboro, North Carolina.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carrie on February 17, 2022

Wakers by Orson Scott Card is a young adult science fiction fantasy novel. Wakers is listed as the first book in the The Side-Step Trilogy although this first book read as if it could of been a standalone story. When he was younger Laz discovered that he had the ability to side-step. Laz could jump h......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on February 28, 2022

There was a good chunk of this book where I was ready to give it a 1 star review. It got a lot better but OSC spent WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY too much time going on and on and on about how each little thing affected how they felt about it, each other, their situation, others, their dogs etc.. it was j......more

Goodreads review by John on February 24, 2022

Boring. So much potential!!! I was really excited to read this book, but he spends so much time trying to legitimize his sci-fi process. The story between the two main characters never felt real or realistic. I almost quit reading (audiobook) this book, but due to my love of other OSC books, i finis......more

Goodreads review by Haley on January 17, 2022

So with this book I had to put aside my love for his Ender’s Game series in order to not compare it. It’s a new work and new world and it is beautiful. The loneliness of our main character is sad he talks to himself and the dogs and has debates with himself on whether or not he should wake the only......more

Goodreads review by Elena on May 23, 2022

Stars: 2 out of 5. DNF at 70%, so you darn right I'm leaving a review for this, since I put so much effort into this book! I am very disappointed. I loved The Ender's Game by the same author so I had high hope for this story as well.  And the beginning was pretty good actually: intriguing and suspensef......more

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