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Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.

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American science fiction novelist

Born August 24, 1951

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  • Cover of: Ender's Game
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  • Cover of: Speaker for the Dead
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  • Cover of: Xenocide
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  • Cover of: Ender's shadow
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  • Cover of: Red prophet.
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  • Cover of: Legends: Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy
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  • Cover of: Shadow of the Hegemon
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  • Cover of: The call of earth
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  • Cover of: Children of the Mind
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  • Cover of: Alvin czeladnik
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  • Cover of: Hart's hope
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  • Cover of: Prentice Alvin
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  • Cover of: The Memory of Earth
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  • Cover of: The ships of Earth
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  • Cover of: Shadow of the Giant
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  • Cover of: Ender in Exile
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    First published in 2008 — 18 editions
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  • Cover of: The Folk of the Fringe
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  • Cover of: Far Horizons
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American science fiction novelist

Born August 24, 1951

Subjects

Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Science fiction, American Science fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Short stories, Fantasy fiction, American Fantasy fiction, Wiggin, ender (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Ender Wiggin (Fictitious character), Life on other planets, Fantasy, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Science fiction, american, Space warfare, United states, fiction, Comics & graphic novels, science fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, American Short stories, Maker, alvin (fictitious character), fiction, Artificial intelligence

Places

Earth, United States, America, Battle School, Louisiana, L’Abri, Mallard residence, North Carolina, Terre, Bird, Borneo, Dartmoor, Divine Wind, Eluria, Greensboro (N.C.), Harmony, Inwit, Israel, King's Pyland, La Plata, Lusitania (imaginary place), fiction, Majipoor, Mei guo, New York (State), Pacifica

People

Ender Wiggin, Alvin Maker, Ender Wiggin (Fictitious character), Peter Wiggin, Valentine Wiggin, Andrew Wiggin, Armand Aubigny, Bean, Brently Mallard, Désirée, Hyrum Graff, Jane (Ender), Josephine, Julian Delphiki, La Blanche, Louise Mallard, Madame Valmondé, Orson Scott Card, Richards, Sandrine, buggers, Aaron, Bean (Fictitious character from Card), Bobby Forney, Christopher Columbus

Time

19th century, Antebellum era, Future, The future, 1800s, 1983, 20 w., Biblical times, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, The Future, Xiandai, earth colony, extraterrestrial planet

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March 9, 2025 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
October 27, 2023 Edited by OnFrATa cleaned pseudonyms, added identifier
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October 25, 2023 Edited by Lisa merge authors
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