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Orson Scott Card

USA  (1951 - )
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Dinah Kirkham, Byron Walley
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About Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is the multi-award winning and bestselling author of a number of ground-breaking SFF novels. Ender's Game is his first Young Adult cross-over novel in the UK.

Nobody had ever won the Hugo and Nebula awards for a novel and its sequel, two years in a row, until Orson Scott Card received them for Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, in 1986 and 1987. But Orson Scott Card's experience is not limited to one genre or form of storytelling.

His contemporary novels Lost Boys, Treasure Box, and Homebody brought a powerful emphasis on character and moral dilemmas to the old-fashioned ghost story. And his newest contemporary novel, Enchantment (April 1999 from Del Rey), is a romantic fantasy that has Sleeping Beauty being awakened by an American graduate student in Ukraine in 1991. The characters pass back and forth between Sleeping Beauty's world of ninth-century Russia and today's America, with the famous anti-hero of Russian folklore, the witch Baba Yaga, following close behind. Card has broken new ground with each of his major works. "The Homecoming Saga" (the novels The Memory of Earth, The Call of Earth, The Ships of Earth, Earthfall, and Earthborn) was a retelling of ancient scripture as science fiction. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus is the sine qua non of alternate history novels, in which time travellers return to keep Columbus from discovering America - or at least from returning to Europe after having discovered it. It will be followed by books that reinvision Noah's flood and the Garden of Eden - in historically, culturally, and scientifically plausible ways.

His works have been translated into many languages, including Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, and Swedish.

A dozen of Card's plays have been produced in regional theatre, including the musical Barefoot to Zion (written in collaboration with his composer brother, Arlen L. Card), which played to sold-out houses in Utah as part of the Mormon Church's celebration of the sesquicentennial of the entry of the pioneers into Salt Lake Valley. His historical novel, Saints, has been an underground hit for several years, and Card has written hundreds of audio plays and a dozen scripts for animated video plays for the family market. Meanwhile, Ender's Game is being developed for film by Robert Chartoff, co-producer of The Right Stuff, Raging Bull, and the Rocky series, with Card writing the screenplay.

Born in Richland, Washington, Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church. He received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). He currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. He and his wife, Kristine, are the parents of five children: Geoffrey, Emily, Charles, Zina Margaret, and Erin Louisa (named for Chaucer, Bronte and Dickinson, Dickens, Mitchell, and Alcott, respectively).
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Keeper of Dreams
Keeper of Dreams

Ultimate Iron Man
Ultimate Iron Man

Stonefather
Stonefather


Ender in Exile
Ender in Exile
(Ender Wiggin)

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Pastwatch: The Flood
Pastwatch: The Flood

Invasive Procedures
Invasive Procedures

Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show


Zanna's Gift: A Life in Christmases
Zanna's Gift
A Life in Christmases

How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Bestselling Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer Shares
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
A Bestselling Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer Shares

Anthologies edited
Dragons of Light (1980)
Dragons of Darkness (1981)
The Best Science Fiction of 1987 (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg)
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1988 (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
The Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: 1988 (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
The Best Science Fiction Value Collection 1 (1990) (with Martin H Greenberg)
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989 (1990)
The Best Horror Stories of the Year, 1989 (1990) (with Martin H Greenberg)
The Best Mystery Stories of the Year Mystery 1989 (1990) (with Martin H Greenberg)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, 1989 (1990)
Future on Fire (1991)
Best Science Fiction Value Collection 2 (1991) (with Martin H Greenberg)
Third Annual Best Fantasy Stories of the Year (1992) (with Martin H Greenberg)
Third Annual Best Horror Stories of the Year (1993) (with Martin H Greenberg)
Third Annual Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (1993) (with Martin H Greenberg)
Black Mist (1997) (with Keith Ferrell)
Future on Ice (1998)
The Best of Sci-Fi and Fantasy (1999) (with Arthur C Clarke)
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001)
Best Fantasy Value Collection 3 (2001) (with Martin H Greenberg)
Best Horror Value Collection 2 (2001)
Best Horror Value Collection 3 (2001) (with Martin H Greenberg)
Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology (2002) (with Keith Olexa)
Hitting the Skids in Pixeltown: Phobos Science Fiction Anthology, Volume 2 (2003)
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show (2008) (with Edmund R Schubert)
Dragons of LightDragons of DarknessBlack MistFuture on Ice
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the CenturyEmpire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction AnthologyHitting the Skids in Pixeltown: Phobos Science Fiction Anthology, Volume 2Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
 
Non fiction
Saintspeak: The Mormon DictionaryHow to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Bestselling Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer SharesCharacters and ViewpointA Storyteller in Zion: Essays and Speeches
How to Write a MillionThe Great Snape Debate
 
Anthologies containing stories by Orson Scott Card
The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year 2New Dimensions 10The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 6Dragons of Darkness
Dragons of DarknessFantasy Annual IIINebula Winners 15The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book
The Second Omni Book of Science FictionThe First Omni Book of Science FictionThe Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual CollectionA Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade
Nebula Awards 22Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16A Century of Fantasy 1980-1989Future Earths : Under South American Skies
The Norton Book of Science FictionStrange DreamsVisions of WonderDragons: The Greatest Stories
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the FantasticFuture on IceLegendsChildren of the Night
Far Horizons
 
Short stories
Ender's Game (1977)Hugo (nominee)
I Put My Blue Genes On (1978)
Mikal's Songbird (1978)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
The Bully and the Beast (1979)
Closing the Timelid (1979)
Deep Breathing Exercises (1979)
Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory (1979)
Kingsmeat (1979)
The Monkey's Thought 'Twas All in Fun' (1979)
Mortal Gods (1979)
Quietus (1979)
Sandmagic (1979)
Songhouse (1979)Hugo (nominee)
Unaccompanied Sonata (1979)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon (1980)
Fat Farm (1980)
Holy (1980)
The Princess and the Bear (1980)
St. Amy's Tale (1980)
Middle Woman (1981) (writing as Byron Walley)
A Plague of Butterflies (1981)
The Porcelain Salamander (1981)
A Sepulcher of Songs (1981)
The Best Day (1984) (writing as Dinah Kirkham)
The Fringe (1985)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
Hatrack River (1986)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
World Fantasy
Salvage (1986)
America (1987)
Eye for Eye (1987)Hugo
Dogwalker (1989)Hugo (nominee)
Lost Boys (1989)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo (nominee)
Grinning Man (1998)


Awards
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1978) : Ender's Game
John W. Campbell Best New Author winner (1978)
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1979) : Mikal's Songbird
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1979) : Mikal's Songbird
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1980) : Unaccompanied Sonata
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1980) : Unaccompanied Sonata
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1980) : Songhouse
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1986) : The Fringe
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1986) : The Fringe
Nebula Best Novel winner (1986) : Ender's Game
Hugo Best Novel winner (1986) : Ender's Game
World Fantasy Best Novella winner (1987) : Hatrack River
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1987) : Hatrack River
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1987) : Hatrack River
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1987) : Speaker for the Dead
Nebula Best Novel winner (1987) : Speaker for the Dead
Hugo Best Novel winner (1987) : Speaker for the Dead
Hugo Best Novella winner (1988) : Eye for Eye
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1988) : Seventh Son
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1988) : Seventh Son
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1988) : Seventh Son
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (