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BOOK: Shadow of the Hedgemon ~ Orson Scott Card

10 Oct 2009 14:12:07 PDT

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...

Original story at Syndicate Consumption .

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Lee County Library System - Expanded Books Interview: Empire

08 Sep 2009 03:59:23 PDT

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

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Ctrl+Alt+Del humanity?

10 May 2009 01:34:25 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Toronto Star .

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Miss Cali's New Friend Says Jail the Gays

07 May 2009 13:25:38 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Gay City News .

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Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture

04 May 2009 07:01:14 PDT

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 ...

Original story at ScienceBlogs .

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How Orson Scott Card Made Me a Gay Father, Broke My Heart, and ...

01 May 2009 18:05:44 PDT

- 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 ...

Original story at Proud Parenting .

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Orson Scott Card news and blogs - November 10, 2009

10 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Orson Scott Card news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• JK Rowling Accused Of Plagiarizing Harry Potter... Yet Again -- from Techdirt
• Church dances not like they used to be -- from Mormon Times
• NOM, Your Roots Are(n't) Showing -- from Campus Progress
• Tiffany Gee Lewis on MormonTimes.com: What Tolstoy really meant by ... -- from Deseret News
• Marvel Comics 05.27.09 and Beyond | Wars of Kings, Rifts, and More -- from Play by Play
• Honoring the young 'heroes' -- from Mormon Times
• 'Lost' Has You Lost? Just Hang in There -- from California Chronicle
• 'Lost' time warp have you lost? Just hang in there -- from USA Today
• Meet Land O'Lakes High School's valedictorians, salutatorians -- from Tampabay.com
• Why Won't NOM Release Its Financials? -- from Queerty

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Nat'l Organization for Marriage Just Keeps Adding the Crazies

22 Apr 2009 08:48:33 PDT

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. ...

Original story at Queerty .

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Opinion: Best Book Ever

20 Apr 2009 14:38:16 PDT

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Author: pubfun Keywords: Ender's Game Great Book Worm Highschool Reading Reader Writing Orson Scott Card Best Ever T2Darlantan Pubfun Review Added: April 20, 2009

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Orson Scott Card goes YA steampunk

06 Mar 2009 11:28:08 PST

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, ...

Original story at Crows Nest .

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Orson Scott Card Signs with Simon Pulse

05 Mar 2009 14:19:15 PST

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. ...

Original story at Publishers Weekly .

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'Ender' sci-fi book fills in 'the lost years'

11 Jan 2009 00:34:04 PST

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

Original story at Dallas Morning News . Related stories include: BOOK REVIEW: Ender -- The saga continues - grandforksherald.com , Reading Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card - lyngperry (Livejournal) and ... Blood of the Muse

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Petersen No Longer Involved in Ender’s Game

07 Jan 2009 10:01:46 PST

Written 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...

Original story at Screenhead .

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An Interview with Author Orson Scott Card

25 Nov 2008 19:44:49 PST

Written 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...

Original story at Blogcritics .

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Specialty bookshelf: reviews of science fiction, mystery and ...

20 Nov 2008 18:02:06 PST

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 ...

Original story at Rocky Mountain News .

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Ender Wiggins

19 Nov 2008 13:24:41 PST

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

Original story at SCIFIPEDIA .

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Ender's Game's Orson Scott Card Still Hoping for a Movie Adaptation

17 Nov 2008 15:05:06 PST

Written 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?

Original story at blogs.amctv.com .

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Opinion: “Ender in Exile”

29 Oct 2008 10:22:34 PDT

Written 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

Original story at Slice of SciFi .

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Dork Calling Orson

22 Oct 2008 08:00:55 PDT

Written 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?

Original story at Sadly, No! .

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The End of Journalism As We Knew It

21 Oct 2008 17:50:21 PDT

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...

Original story at Power Line .

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Should We Kill People Over Gay Marriage?

16 Oct 2008 17:02:21 PDT

- 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 ...

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MRUs Lesson 6

06 Oct 2008 19:25:31 PDT

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...

Original story at Advanced Fiction Writing .

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Ender's Game Podcast

08 Jul 2008 21:00:00 PDT

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

Original story at Marvel News Saved Searches .

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SD07: Impact Books (#1415)

21 Jul 2007 17:02:48 PDT

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...

Original story at PW: THE BEAT .

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Orson Scott Card interview: Ender's Game as many games

17 Jun 2007 14:53:43 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at MMORPG blog .

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Orson Scott Card Talks 'Ender's Game'

19 Apr 2007 13:31:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Cinematical .

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