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Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.
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.

Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He...more


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Average rating: 3.94 · 552,460 ratings · 30,982 reviews · 256 distinct works
Ender's Game
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 216,086 ratings — published 1985 — 90 editions
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Speaker for the Dead (Ender's...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 44,355 ratings — published 1986 — 42 editions
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Ender's Shadow (Shadow, #1)
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 33,420 ratings — published 1999 — 32 editions
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Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 30,290 ratings — published 1991 — 40 editions
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Children of the Mind (Ender's...
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 21,745 ratings31 editions
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Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow,...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 18,038 ratings — published 2000 — 23 editions
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Shadow Puppets (Shadow, #3)
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 13,126 ratings — published 2002 — 24 editions
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Shadow of the Giant (Shadow, #...
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 11,528 ratings21 editions
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Enchantment
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 10,271 ratings — published 1999 — 21 editions
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Seventh Son
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 10,472 ratings — published 1987 — 32 editions
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Ender's Game Ender in Exile Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind
Ender's Saga (5 books)
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4.0507227711235 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 326,106 ratings
Ender's Shadow Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of the Giant Shadows in Flight
Shadow (6 books)
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3.97393519728247 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 76,540 ratings
Speaker for the Dead
Ender's Saga, #2 (1 book)
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3.92902001536168 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 44,266 ratings
Seventh Son Red Prophet Prentice Alvin Alvin Journeyman Heartfire The Crystal City
Tales of Alvin Maker (6 books)
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3.72138922888617 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 39,216 ratings
Xenocide
Ender's Saga, #3 (1 book)
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3.66596075576586 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 30,221 ratings
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“It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”
Orson Scott Card, The Folk of the Fringe

“Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.”
Orson Scott Card

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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