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Entry updated 19 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1951- ) US author who began his adult life with activities befitting his faith – he worked as a Mormon missionary in Brazil, 1971-1973, an experience seemingly fictionalized to revealing effect in "America" (January 1987 Asimov's). He wrote several plays and other works with religious content before exploding onto the sf scene with his first published story of genre interest, "Ender's Game" in Analog for August 1977. This was nominated for a Hugo and served as the germ for the Ender series, the first two volumes of which – published 1985 and 1986 – each won both Hugo and Nebula, the first time the two major prizes had been swept in successive years by one author. But this was after his career had entered its pomp. After a highly promising start at the end of the 1970s – he won the 1978 John W Campbell Award – he entered a period during the early 1980s when that career seemed to be
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Orson Scott Card
American science fiction novelist (born 1951)
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Card at Life, the Universe, & Everything in 2008 | |
| Born | (1951-08-24) August 24, 1951 (age 73) Richland, Washington, U.S. |
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| Education | Brigham Young University (BA) University of Utah (MA) |
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| Notable works | Ender's Game series, The Tales of Alvin Maker |
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| Spouse | Kristine Allen |
| Children | 5 |
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Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024[update], 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
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About Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott CardOrson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read bygd adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools. His most recent series, the ung adult Pathfinder series (Pathfinder, Ruins, Visitors) and the fantasy Mithermages series (Lost Gate, Gate Thief, Gatefather) are taking readers in new directions.
Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts, including his "freshened" Shakespeare scripts for Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice.
Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Ut