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NOM, Your Roots Are(n't) Showing
Original at Campus Progress
• Tue, Jun 9
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 ...
Miss Cali's New Friend Says Jail the Gays
Original at Gay City News
• Thu, May 7
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 ...
Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture
Original at ScienceBlogs
• Mon, May 4
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 ...
Nat'l Organization for Marriage Just Keeps Adding the Crazies
Original at Queerty
• Wed, Apr 22
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. ...
Book Marks: David Gill fills in the whole ‘Soul Enchilada’
Original at Wilmington Morning Star
• Sat, Apr 4
NC A big fan of Douglas Adams (“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”), Gill had attended the “Boot Camp for Writers” run by Greensboro science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card (“Ender’s Game”). That was back in 1993, but he and his classmates kept in ...
News from Seaton
Original at Aledo Times Record
• Wed, Mar 25
IL WATCHMEN, the comic book format of the new movie; ENDER'S GAME by youth science fiction author Orson Scott Card. Also there is the latest in Kresley Cole's "Immortal Series" WICKED DEEDS ON A WINTER'S NIGHT; and NY TIMES bestseller THE SHACK Check out ...
Orson Scott Card, Internationally Bestselling Author, to Publish ... - PR Newswire
Original at sev.prnewswire.com
• Thu, Mar 5
Orson Scott Card is the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers. Besides these and other science fiction novels, ...
Orson Scott Card, Internationally Bestselling Author, to Publish ... - PR Newswire
Original at prnewswire.com
• Thu, Mar 5
Orson Scott Card is the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers. Besides these and other science fiction novels, ...
Science Fiction for the Family Man
Original at Dartmouth Review
• Mon, Jan 26
NH By William D. Aubin | Monday, January 26, 2009 For the countless fans of Orson Scott Card who have been stuck in the Battle School universe since Ender’s Game was originally published in 1984, the new year brings an early blessing: Ender in Exile has ...
Ender’s Game Movie Reaches Endgame
Original at /FILM
• Wed, Jan 7
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
Marvel.com interviews Orson Scott Card
Original at facebook.com
• Fri, Dec 12
Marvel.com had a chance to chat with reknowned science fiction author Orson Scott Card on his up and coming comic adaptation of "Ender's Game" and ... www.facebook.com
Sean Twist: New Scientist Readers Are Science Fiction Fans,Too? Weird.
Original at Sean Twist
• Tue, Nov 25
By Kid Dork 4. Ender's Game Just read this a couple of years ago. Recommended reading for any gamer. Great book, but I have no desire to read anything else by Orson Scott Card, let alone his 'reimaginings' of this book. 5. Hyperion series ...
Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sam Christopher's Quick Hits
Original at Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Mon, Nov 24
By webmaster First, the team of Christopher Yost (Secret Invasion: Young Avengers/Runaways, X-Men: Evolution teleseries) and Pasqual Ferry (Heroes for Hire, Adam Strange) continue their adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game with a second ish ...
42 Challenge: Shelley's 42
Original at 42 Challenge
• Fri, Nov 21
By Becky graphic novels, comic books, audio books, essays about science fiction, biographies about sci-fi authors, etc. Adapted or abridged works are okay as well. Friday, November 21, 2008. Shelley's 42. 1. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card ...
Specialty bookshelf: reviews of science fiction, mystery and ...
Original at Rocky Mountain News
• Thu, Nov 20
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 ...
Fantasy and science fiction: ‘The Devil's Eye' and ‘All the ...
Original at Bradenton Herald
• Wed, Nov 5
• 4 related articles
United States - Ender in Exile" (Tor, $25.95) by Orson Scott Card. The "direct sequel" to Ender's Game takes place before the events in "Speaker for the Dead. ...
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Review: Ender’s Game
Original at Stage and Canvas
• Sun, Nov 2
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 ...
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Devil’s Eye and All the ...
Original at Kansas City Star
• Sat, Nov 1
• 4 related articles
MO - •Ender in Exile(384 pages; Tor; $25.95) by Orson Scott Card. The “direct sequel” to Ender’s Game takes place before the events in Speaker for the Dead. ...
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SF&F's All-Time Sales List
Original at The Wertzone
• Sat, Oct 25
By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) If there's one thing this list has proven, if you want to be a massive-selling author you're far better writing Fantasy than Science Fiction, unless your SF novel features a ton of Fantasy elements. Frank Herbert's Dune is SF's biggest-selling single novel, with more than 12 million copi...
Orson Scott Card, Truth-Teller
Original at Semicolon
• Thu, Oct 23
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 ...
Ender’s Shadow Looms Over US Media
Original at Buckeye Firearms Association
• Wed, Oct 22
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, ...
Confederate Yankee: Orson Scott Card <em>Rips</em> the MSM
Original at Confederate Yankee
• Mon, Oct 20
Card is a nut by the way....have you read Ender's Game?, one of the greatest Science Fiction Novel's ever, and I mean ever, but you'd have to be a little crazy and a lot brilliant to write it. As far as Obama and his supporters, ...
Comic Break: Ender's Game Battle School #1
Original at Blood of the Muse
• Fri, Oct 10
• 4 related articles
By Paul The novel "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card is easily one of my favorite science fiction novels of all time. It's really one of those incredible stories which sticks with you years after reading it. It's also something that I don't ...
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Orson Scott Card reads from Ender in Exile (Music from Jamendo.com)
Original at Idea Jugglers
• Sun, Jul 20
By Tarun Durga Exclusive podcast of an excerpt from Orson Scott Card’s forthcoming novel ‘Ender in Exile’, read by the man himself. This is as good as it gets for Science Fiction buffs. Orson Scott Card is best known as the author of one of science ...
Mormon Defender Skirts Christian Question; Instead Calls for Unity
Original at Christian Post
• Thu, Jul 12
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...
Top 5 Novels That Should Be Games
Original at bspcn (Feedburner)
• Wed, Jun 13
While not only being a classic of modern science-fiction, Ender’s Game itself is suited perfectly for the world of video games. Video games show up all over the book, from the game the cadets play, to all aspects of battle school life. The world crafted in Ender’s game is the most obvious choi...
Book Review: Spherical Tomi by Jack Mangan
Original at Blogcritics
• Tue, May 22
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...
Coheed and Cambria’s Fourth Album to Be as Nonsensical as First Three
Original at Rolling Stone
• Thu, Apr 26
By Mordechai Shinefield From the group that brought you the tongue-twisting album titles In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 and Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness: Coheed and Cambria, those prog-emo masters of overblown science fiction imagery, re-enter the studio...
We Need a Word for De Alba, Annan, Nifong, Sharpton
Original at IsraPundit
• Wed, Apr 11
By Bill Levinson The only word of which we know is “varelse,” from an Orson Scott Card science fiction story. It means an entity that is so alien and hostile that one cannot possibly communicate or negotiate with it. This includes threats of violence because, like a rabid dog, a varelse is so irrational (or in...