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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is the bestselling author best known for the classic Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and other novels in the Ender universe. Most recently, he was awarded the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in Young Adult literature, from the American Library Association.... show more
Orson Scott Card is the bestselling author best known for the classic Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and other novels in the Ender universe. Most recently, he was awarded the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in Young Adult literature, from the American Library Association. Card has written sixty-one books, assorted plays, comics, and essays and newspaper columns. His work has won multiple awards, including back-to-back wins of the Hugo and the Nebula Awards-the only author to have done so in consecutive years. His titles have also landed on 'best of' lists and been adopted by cities, universities and libraries for reading programs. The Ender novels have inspired a Marvel Comics series, a forthcoming video game from Chair Entertainment, and pre-production on a film version. A highly anticipated The Authorized Ender Companion, written by Jake Black, is also forthcoming.Card offers writing workshops from time to time and occasionally teaches writing and literature at universities.Orson Scott Card currently lives with his family in Greensboro, NC.
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Birth date: 1951-08-24
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Mimia Reads & Talks
Mimia Reads & Talks rated it 6 years ago
This was good. I wish I was able to write more about it but it seems impossible
My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it 6 years ago
I will tell you right up front that I don’t usually read Sci-fi. When I got this book for book club, I was eyeing the movie thinking that I might be better off with the movie but I took a chance and grabbed the book. I am so glad I took the book; this book was amazing! I loved this book! I still can...
Midu Reads
Midu Reads rated it 7 years ago
Originally published at midureads.wordpress.com on August 4, 2018. I started reading this book at a weird time in my life. A loss that I’m still grieving and new changes make for bad companions. Those reasons could be why I enjoyed reading this book much more than I should have. You’ll see what I...
Sci-Fi & Scary
Sci-Fi & Scary rated it 8 years ago
Re-Reading this as it's our Coolthulu Reads Book of the Month for dicussion on July 19th!And, as usual, I take away something new from it. Love this book. ---------------------------Okay, to start with, I read this book ages ago, and absolutely loved it. But I just recently re-read it so that I coul...
Selan
Selan rated it 8 years ago
So I finally got round to reading this. I think it's been around for a while (1985?) and some of the concepts aren't really the kind of thing you'd get for Young Adult. I found this incredible. Training a child from a very young age to fight against these aliens who wiped out billions of people from...
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