He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.Ĭard was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977-the short story 'Gert Fram' in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of 'Ender's Game' in the August issue of Analog. Those books are organized into the Ender Saga, which chronicles the life of Ender Wiggin the Shadow Series, which follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and is set on Earth and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, which tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien 'Buggers.' Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)Įarth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery.and the truth.Įnder’s Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the MindĮnder’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening.again, humans die.

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

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