He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.Ĭard currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.įor further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.įor an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s.
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.īesides 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.Ĭard was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways.
The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. He will grow up fast.īut Ender is not the only result of the experiment. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate.
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