Orson Scott Card

Sorry OSC, I tried. I really did. Ender’s Game was interesting, Ender’s Shadow was even more compelling, but this novel about what happens to the members of Ender’s Dragon Army after the bugger war was a boring, boring, read. Full disclosure: I actually gave up halfway through and tracked do...

Orson Scott Card - bestselling author of ENDER'S GAME - presents a chilling vision of the near future in his new novel EMPIRE. The book ... excerpts.contentreserve.com

 DC The newest addition to NOM's board is science-fiction novelist and devout Mormon Orson Scott Card, who is not the head of a think tank—probably the closest NOM gets to the grassroots. But Card's activism takes the form of publications such as a 2008 ...

  Canada Big break: After his first novel Golden Fleece is a sales dud, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game and a giant in the genre, calls it the best SF novel of 1990. Sawyer's career revives. What's coming up: His novel Flashforward is being adapted as ...

So wrote Orson Scott Card, a science fiction writer and a columnist for the Mormon Times who sits on the board of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the group that has mobilized against the growing legal recognition of marriage equality and ...

 NY Holland was replaced by sci-fi writer and government overthrower Orson Scott Card.) Some $1.5 million is being spent on television ads, claims NOM, but there's no record of who's funding that cash. (We suspect the media spend budget isn't that large; ...

Until a few years ago, I'd never even heard of Orson Scott Card. I'm not a science fiction reader, so I'd never read his many books, some of which my friends tell me are quite food if you like that genre. But after watching him make a complete fool of ...

 - Brian Frank, Brian Frank We'll always have Ender's Game, your novel about the brilliant child Ender who becomes drafted into the draconian Battle School and unwittingly becomes a genocidal war criminal in Earth's first interstellar war against aliens. I read Ender's Game while ...

 UT White Shell, a short story, is slated for publication in Dispensation: Millennial Mormon Fiction, an anthology that also includes well-known writers Orson Scott Card and Levi Petersen. She is the mother of three young children and chronicles her ...

The Whitney Awards also honored Kerry Blair and Orson Scott Card with lifetime achievement awards. Blair is known within the LDS writing community for her enthusiastic mentoring of fellow authors. She will take over as president of the Whitney Awards ...

 NY Then how about NOM chief Maggie Gallagher welcoming her hatred equal Orson Scott Card, who just joined the organization's board. Who's Card, you ask? He's the science fiction writer and Mormon Times columnist filled with idiot logic. ...

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Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. He recently began a long term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. Card currently lives in Greensboro, ...

 NY When Card’s iconic Ender’s Game came out in 1985, she said, “the teen market didn’t exist” to the extent it does now. Card also has a daughter who is “about the right age,” Bova said, “which may have inspired him” to go in this direction. ...

 NY Orson Scott Card By gaijin on March 5, 2009 11:58 AM More OSC, from last November: "I am so optimistic that I believe the actor who will play Ender has not only been born - he's already in school." By James McNeill on March 5, 2009 12:00 PM The ...

 Ca The legendary sci-fi epic by New York Times Bestseller Orson Scott Card continues as the children's training continues at Battle School, but Ender begins to question exactly who the enemy is. He's been isolated, his peers have been turned against him, ...

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Mormon Times  TX - Jan 11, 2009 Twenty-three years have passed since Orson Scott Card first dazzled readers with Ender's Game, a seminal work that blurred the lines between young adult and ... A Look into Orson Scott Card's Enders series Mormon Times all 4 news articles

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By Hollywood Speaking to The Los Angeles Times, sci-fi author Orson Scott Card revealed that Wolfgang Petersen is no longer attached to direct the big-screen adaptation of the author’s sci-fi novel classic Ender’s Game. Card disclosed that he did not feel comfortable with the movie’s direction and...

Geeks of Doom  MA - Jan 7, 2009 Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game was one of my favorite books in high school, and probably still remains my favorite science fiction story of all time. ... ‘Ender’s Game’ Film Adaptation Gets Scrapped Geeks of Doom all 6 news articles

The big question here is which to read first: Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie or The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker (I have read both of the predecessors, don't worry)? Other question is to recommend any books to add to my book list, or tell me any good reason why I should get rid of...

The third of Card's "Shadow" novels set in the Ender universe, this one suffers from the classic "idiot plot": all of the heroes' problems stem from making idiotic decisions. Peter Wiggin, who really has no business doing anything with his nemesis Achilles de Flandres apart from killing...

Card reboots the Ender saga yet again, without nearly the success of 1998's "Ender's Shadow". This book is the tale of Ender's trek to his first colony world with his sister Valentine. Not bad for much of its length. But the story too often favors melodrama over drama, paints Ender as a Christ f...

By Fitz A while back, Orson Scott Card was kind enough to leave a comment on one of my posts about his story "Stonefather" (released recently in novella form). We had a short e-mail conversation after that and he graciously agreed to let me interview him.Orson Scott Card is the author of such importa...

 CO - By Orson Scott Card. Tor, $25.95. Grade: A- This 11th installment in the saga that began with Ender's Game takes place between the first novel and the ...

Sure there are a few sour apples (this site makes conservatism seem sour) — Ted Nugent, Mel Gibson, Orson Scott Card (I loved Ender’s Game), Edward Teller. But there’s something about being very creative or smart that makes people ...

Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card from Tor Books If you love a thing, set it free. So it was with my copy of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game — a book I cherish so much I have been compelled to share it as often as possible. ...

Ender series Character Andrew "Ender" Wiggins Status Dead/Alive Gender Male Species Human Origin Earth Portrayed by NA First Appearance Ender's Game Profession Speaker for the Dead Relatives Valentine Wiggin (sister), Peter Wiggin (brother) Special Features Genius  

By Sam Sloan Check out this exciting text interview HERE. Our good friends from AMC’s SciFi Scanner were given the opportunity to have a sit-down with renowned author Orson Scott Card (”Enders Game”) and talk about his newest edition to the franchise — “Ender in Exile.” The Hugo-winning novelist also...

By Clayton Neuman Hugo-winning novelist Orson Scott Card discusses his latest Ender sequel as well as his big screen dreams for the first in the series. Q: The latest draft of the screenplay incorporates elements of Ender's Game as well as Ender's Shadow. Why combine them?

By Dave Rosenthal Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card (Tor, $25.95). In the wake of his victory over the alien Formics, 12-year-old military genius Ender Wiggins is hailed as a hero, but governments that trained him intend to portray him as a monster. ...

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Regular readers of this blog know that I'm a big fan of Orson Scott Card and specifically Ender's Game. He recently teamed up with Marvel to produce a comic version, and both Gene and I were really very impressed with the first issue. Now you can read it for free online, courtesy of Tor books Che...

By Mish Published in 1985, Ender’s Game is perhaps Orson Scott Card’s most acclaimed novel. It stormed the science-fiction universe, winning the Hugo and Nebula awards and making the top of bestseller lists. Taken from the cover, Gene Wolf says ...

By Sam Sloan Orson Scott Card returns to his bestselling series with a new Ender novel “The novels of Orson Scott Card’s Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games, and psychology.” –USA TODAY

 Malaysia - Oct 24, 2008 The comic adapts one of the most beloved sci-fi books of all time — Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender’s Game takes place in the future, ...

By Sherry Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game (Semicolon review here) and many other titles of science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction, is a Democrat and a newspaper columnist. However, in this column, he blasts both his party and ...

By cbaus For those of you wondering, yes, this is the same Orson Scott Card who wrote Ender’s Game and its' progeny. Even if you are not a science fiction fan, you owe it to yourself to read Ender’s Game. For many young adults, ...

By D. Aristophanes Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights? By Orson Scott Card Damn that other party! Damn them straight to Mormon hell! Card doesn’t list all the rules that were loosened by Republicans, but here’s a nice summation. Mr. Card?

But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie -- that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad -- even bad weather -- on Bush, and they are responding as you have ta...

 - Oct 17, 2008 by Brian Trent, Independent Examiner In 1985, one of the best things I had ever read was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. In 2008, one of the worst things ...

 TX - Oct 16, 2008 What: Author Orson Scott Card gives a book discussion as part of Denton Reads, a collaboration of local libraries. Ender’s Game is about a young boy, ... The hunt for a book that could be shared Denton Record Chronicle all 2 news articles

 UT - Oct 15, 2008 By Orson Scott Card Last Saturday night, I dropped our 14-year-old off at a youth fireside and dance. The event was a half-hour away from home, ...

In my last post, I showed some writing examples from Jane Austen and Ken Follett. Today, I’ll analyze a piece of a scene by Orson Scott Card. This is a fight scene done in zero-gravity. The setting is “Battle School,” a training ground for the next generation of soldiers. The protagonist is a boy...

 UT - Sep 17, 2008 By Orson Scott Card A friend, knowing that I had been writing for many years about practical ways to live the Law of Consecration while living in a ...

By Owen Thomas It's as if Orson Scott Card hasn't gotten the message of his own greatest work, Ender's Game, where the main character learns to tolerate people different from himself. The sci-fi writer's best-known work is widely read in Silicon ...

Orson Scott Card joins the Mighty Marvel Podcast crew to talk about the upcoming adaptation of his epic novel, "Ender's Game."

We like it when a publisher gives us nice little log lines at the top of their PR! This how-to imprint has done it just the way we like it. * Impact University Back for its 4th Straight Year with Peter David, David Petersen and Orson Scott Card! * Portfolio Reviews by Impact’s Editorial Directo...

By michelle@christianpost.com (Michelle Vu) The chosen defender of Mormonism in a much talked-about online debate avoided the challenges posed by one of the nation’s preeminent evangelicals Wednesday on why Mormons cannot be considered Christians. Instead, well-known science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card called for unity...

By Max F. Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game (the Hugo Award winner and Nebula Award winner), is a recovering game addict - or at least that's one interpretation you can give his interview over at Gaming Today. Ender's Game is being turned into a movie by Warner Brothers, and at the same time Ors...

By Constance Burris The first thing that stuck out about Jack Mangan’s Spherical Tomi is that is was hardcore, cyberpunk science fiction. The second thing was, for a sci-fi novel, it was incredibly easy to read. Spherical Tomi is a strong mix of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game because of the complicated war str...

By Christopher Campbell Filed under: Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Scripts & Screenwriting, Comic/Superhero/GeekI'm sure I'm in the minority in thinking that Ender's Game would make a horrible film. Maybe I don't remember the book well enough, but I see it being awfully re...