Duplex

A Micropowers Novel

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad building walls to turn their big old house into a duplex. The family that moves into the other side includes Bizzy Horvat, the pretty girl he has a crush on at school. Bizzy claims her mother is a witch with the power to curse people with clumsiness or, in Bizzy’s case, astonishing beauty.

When a bee gets caught in Bizzy’s hair, Ryan acts so quickly and radically to save her from getting stung that he attracts the attention of a group of micropotents - people with micropowers. He soon realizes that Bizzy and her mother also have such powers. It becomes Ryan’s job, with the help of the other micropotents, to protect the Horvats from a group of witch hunters from their native country, who are determined to kill Bizzy, her mother, and all the other “witches” - micropotents - who have gathered to protect them.

©2021 Orson Scott Card (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

The protagonist seeing the necessity for his micro power but not desiring to use it because there wasn't any cap on fatality.

Orson seems to be quietly bringing up some of the finer points of his "unbelief?" in LDS doctrine.

Great story

I’ve always enjoyed Mr. Cards ability to make you connect with his characters. I’ve always enjoyed his stories. His writing only gets better with Time.

A interesting story

Good characters and character development. The narrator is quite good for the story. The idea of micro powers is very much in line with knacks and those hunting people with them as found in the Alvin Maker series.

not the best, but still pretty good

Not nearly as good as Lost and Found, but worth listening to. Hard not to like anything by OSC

Great book with creative ideas

I really find the idea of micro powers really funny. The continuous witty banter makes the story even more fun.