Magic Street

Magic Street
Magic Street  
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Author(s) Orson Scott Card
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy
Publisher Del Rey
Publication date 2005
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 416 pp
ISBN 0-345-41689-9
OCLC Number 57352830
Dewey Decimal 813/.54 22
LC Classification PS3553.A655 M35 2005

Magic Street (2005) is an urban fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. This book follows the magical events in the Baldwin Hills section of contemporary Los Angeles, including the life of protagonist Mack Street, his foster brother Cecil Tucker, a trickster identified variously as Bag Man, Puck, Mr. Christmas, and numerous other members of this upscale community of African-Americans.

The storyline frequently refers to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and elements of Western and European folklore. In the author's note, Card credits friend Roland Bernard Brown with goading him into writing a novel featuring a black hero, and "thanks to Queen Latifah for putting (the Yolanda White character) on a motorcycle."

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The Ender saga
Ender's Game (1985) · Speaker for the Dead (1986) · Xenocide (1991) · Children of the Mind (1996) · A War of Gifts (2007) · Ender in Exile (2008)
The Shadow series
Ender's Shadow (1999) · Shadow of the Hegemon (2001) · Shadow Puppets (2002) · Shadow of the Giant (2005) · planned: Shadows in Flight (2011) · Shadows Alive (TBA)
The Tales of Alvin Maker
Seventh Son (1987) · Red Prophet (1988) · Prentice Alvin (1989) · Alvin Journeyman (1995) · Heartfire (1998) · The Crystal City (2003) · forthcoming: Master Alvin (TBA)
Homecoming Saga
The Memory of Earth (1992) · The Call of Earth (1992) · The Ships of Earth (1994) · Earthfall (1995) · Earthborn (1995)
The Women of Genesis
Sarah (2000) · Rebekah (2001) · Rachel and Leah (2004) · planned: The Wives of Israel (TBA)
The Worthing series
Capitol (1979) · Hot Sleep (1979) · The Worthing Chronicle (1983) · The Worthing Saga (1990)
The Mayflower Trilogy
Lovelock (1990) · forthcoming: Rasputin (TBA)
The Pastwatch series
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996) · forthcoming: Pastwatch: The Flood (TBA) · Pastwatch: The Garden of Eden (TBA)
The Empire duet
Empire (2006) · Hidden Empire (2009)
The Pathfinder series
Pathfinder (2010)
The Mithermages Trilogy
The Lost Gate (2011)
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