by Orson Scott Card · B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498722567
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«Maestro cantor» is the science fiction and fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card, published by B de Bolsillo in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
Ansset, kidnapped and educated in the isolated House of Song, discovers that his voice reflects and amplifies the emotions of his audience, healing or destroying. Summoned to the court of Mikal the Terrible, emperor of the galaxy, his singing is both comfort and danger in a story about power, love, and the price of artistic vocation.
Originally published in English as Songmaster, with translation by Rafael Marín Trechera. Winner of the 1981 Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award and finalist for the 1981 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Suitable for science fiction and fantasy readers interested in the relationship between art and power.
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; he has provoked controversy and criticism for his public opposition to homosexuality.
