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Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024 [update] , he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years , winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986).
Hamlet's Father is a 2008 novella by Orson Scott Card, which retells William Shakespeare's Hamlet in modernist prose, and which makes several changes to the characters' motivations and backstory. It has drawn substantial criticism for its portrayal of King Hamlet as a pedophile who molested Laertes , Horatio , and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ...
Empire is a 2006 dystopian novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. It tells the story of a possible Second American Civil War, this time between the Right wing and Left wing in the near future. It is the first of the two books in the Empire duet , followed by Hidden Empire with the video game Shadow Complex bridging the two.
Capitol (1979) was Orson Scott Card's second published book, and first foray into science fiction. This collection of eleven short stories set in the Worthing series is no longer in print. However six of the stories have been reprinted in The Worthing Saga (1990) and one of them in Maps in a Mirror (1990).
The Ships of Earth (1994) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. It is the third book of the Homecoming Saga , a fictionalization of the first few hundred years recorded in the Book of Mormon .
The Library of Orson Scott Card; Orson Scott Card's work at Macmillan.com; Orson Scott Card's work at Marvel.com; Complete list of sci-fi award wins and nominations by novel; Orson Scott Card papers, MSS 1756 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University. Contains Card's works, writing notes, and letters.
Wyrms (1987) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. The story examines desire, wisdom, and human will. The story examines desire, wisdom, and human will. Card describes a version of the tri-partite soul, similar to that articulated by Plato in The Republic .
The novel, set in 1983, revolves around Step Fletcher, a game programmer, who invented a fictional game for Atari 8-bit computers called Hacker Snack, and his family.Step, a devout Mormon, moves his pregnant wife DeAnne and their three children, including seven-year-old Stevie, from Indiana to Steuben, North Carolina, so he can start a new job as a technical writer.