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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 · 999,011 ratings · 46,540 reviews · 356 distinct works · Similar authors
Ender's Game (Ender's Saga,...
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 400,897 ratings — published 1985 — 120 editions
Speaker for the Dead (Ender...
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 78,715 ratings — published 1986 — 55 editions
Ender's Shadow (Shadow, #1)
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 58,610 ratings — published 1999 — 40 editions
Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 53,420 ratings — published 1991 — 51 editions
Children of the Mind (Ender...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 38,193 ratings — published 1996 — 37 editions
Shadow of the Hegemon (Shad...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 31,379 ratings — published 2000 — 27 editions
Shadow Puppets (Shadow, #3)
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 23,292 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
Shadow of the Giant (Shadow...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 20,988 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 16,644 ratings — published 1987 — 38 editions
Enchantment
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 15,348 ratings — published 1999 — 27 editions
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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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