Re: _Magic Street_ by Orson Scott Card

On 9/1/2020 3:13 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 13:23:43 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> _Magic Street_ by Orson Scott Card
>>     https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Street-Orson-Scott-Card/dp/0345416899/
>>
>> A standalone fantasy book, no sequel or prequel.  I read the well
>> printed and well bound hardback published in 2005 by Del Rey.
>>
>> I believe that this is OSC's first fantasy book but am not sure.
> 
> I would classify the Alvin Maker books as fantasy.
> 
>> It is
>> a documentary of a battle between the king of the fairies, Oberon, and
>> the queen of the fairies, Titania, in a black neighborhood of Los
>> Angeles.  Here is the marketing blurb:
>>
>> "In a peaceful, prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles,
>> Mack Street is a mystery child who has somehow found a home. Discovered
>> abandoned in an overgrown park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman,
>> Mack comes and goes from family to family–a boy who is at once
>> surrounded by boisterous characters and deeply alone. But while Mack
>> senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange
>> powers, he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he
>> sees, in a thin slice of space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a
>> backyard–and an entryway into an extraordinary world stretching off into
>> an exotic distance of geography, history, and magic."
>>
>> My rating:  3.6 out of 5 stars
>> Amazon rating:  3.9 out of 5 stars (87 reviews)
>>
>> Lynn

Yes, you are most correct and those were published 1987 to 2003.  I 
should have reviewed OSC's bibliography first.
    http://www.hatrack.com/osc/index.shtml

Lynn