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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 recently began a...more


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Average rating: 4.01 · 1,002,116 ratings · 46,694 reviews · 351 distinct works · Similar authors
Ender's Game (Ender's Saga,...
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 402,330 ratings — published 1985 — 123 editions
Speaker for the Dead (Ender...
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 78,929 ratings — published 1986 — 55 editions
Ender's Shadow (Shadow, #1)
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 58,775 ratings — published 1999 — 40 editions
Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 53,566 ratings — published 1991 — 51 editions
Children of the Mind (Ender...
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 38,282 ratings — published 1996 — 37 editions
Shadow of the Hegemon (Shad...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 31,450 ratings — published 2000 — 27 editions
Shadow Puppets (Shadow, #3)
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 23,350 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
Shadow of the Giant (Shadow...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 21,035 ratings — published 2005
Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 16,685 ratings — published 1987 — 38 editions
Enchantment
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 15,374 ratings — published 1999 — 27 editions
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"Mercurial gods are trapped on Earth in The Lost Gate, a new fantasy from a science fiction master." ...More

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

“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

“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

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