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Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. He is also known as an advocate for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he has been a lifelong practicing member, and as a political commentator on many issues, including opposition to homosexual behavior and the legalization of same-sex marriage.
A film adaptation of Ender's Game is currently in development, and is set for release on 1 November 2013. Card is co-producing the film.
Card is the son of Willard and Peggy Card, third of six children and the older brother of composer and arranger Arlen Card. Card was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Santa Clara, California as well as Mesa, Arizona and Orem, Utah. He served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Brazil and graduated from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah; he also spent a year in a Ph.D. program at the University of Notre Dame. Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, an environment that has played a significant role in Ender's Game and many of his other works.
Card began his writing career primarily as a poet, studying with Clinton F. Larson at Brigham Young University. During his studies as a theater major, he began "doctoring" scripts, adapting fiction for readers theater production, and finally writing his own one-act and full-length plays, several of which were produced by faculty directors at BYU. He also explored fiction writing, beginning with stories that eventually evolved into The Worthing Saga.
After returning to Provo, Utah from his LDS mission in Brazil, Card started the Utah Valley Repertory Theatre Company, which for two summers produced plays at "the Castle", a Depression-era outdoor amphitheater behind the state mental hospital in Provo; his company's were the first plays ever produced there. Meanwhile, he took part-time employment as a proofreader at BYU Press, then made the jump to full-time employment as a copy editor. In 1976, in the midst of a paid acting gig in the Church's musical celebrating America's Bicentennial, he secured employment as an assistant editor at the Church's official magazine, Ensign, and moved to Salt Lake City. It was while working at Ensign that Card published his first piece of fiction. His short story "Gert Fram" appeared in the July 1977 fine arts issue of that magazine under the pseudonym Byron Walley.
He first wrote the short story "Ender's Game" while working at the BYU press, and submitted it to several publications. The idea for the later novel of the same title came from the short story about a school where boys can fight in space. It was eventually purchased by Ben Bova at Analog Science Fiction and Fact and published in the August 1977 issue. Meanwhile, he started writing half-hour audioplays on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the New Testament, and other subjects for Living Scriptures in Ogden, Utah; on the basis of that continuing contract, some freelance editing work, and a novel contract for Hot Sleep and A Planet Called Treason, he left Ensign and began supporting his family as a freelancer.
He completed his master's degree in English at the University of Utah in 1981 and began a doctoral program at the University of Notre Dame, but the recession of the early 1980s caused the flow of new book contracts to temporarily dry up. He returned to full-time employment as the book editor for Compute! magazine in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1983. In October of that year, a new contract for the Alvin Maker "trilogy" (now up to six books) allowed him to return to freelancing.
Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead were both awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, making Card the only author (as of 2011) to win both of science fiction's top prizes in consecutive years. Card continued the series with Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, "First Meetings in the Enderverse", Shadow of the Giant, Shadows in Flight, the 2007 release of A War of Gifts, and the 2008 release of Ender in Exile, a book that takes place after Ender's Game and before Speaker for the Dead. Card has also announced his plan to write Shadows Alive, a book that connects the "Shadow" series and "Speaker" series together. In 2008 Card announced that Ender's Game would be made into a movie, but that he did not have a director lined up. (Wolfgang Petersen had previously been scheduled to direct the movie but has since moved on to other projects.) It was to be produced by Chartoff Productions, and Card was writing the screenplay himself. Other works include the alternate histories The Tales of Alvin Maker, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, The Homecoming Saga, and Hidden Empire, a story about a near-future civil war in the United States, based on the Xbox Live Arcade video game Shadow Complex. He collaborated with Star Wars artist Doug Chiang on Robota and with Kathryn H. Kidd on Lovelock.
Card has written two books on the subject of creative writing. The first of these books was Characters and Viewpoint published in 1988. The second was How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy published in 1990. Both of the books were published by Writer's Digest Books and remain in print. He was also a co-writer for How to Write a Million (though his contribution is actually a reprint of an earlier work).
Card also gives advice about writing in an interview in Leading Edge #23 in 1991.
Card and his wife Kristine have had five children, each named after one or more authors he and his wife admire. Their children's names are Michael Geoffrey (Geoffrey Chaucer), Emily Janice (Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson), Charles Benjamin (Charles Dickens), Zina Margaret (Margaret Mitchell) and Erin Louisa (Louisa May Alcott). Charles, who had cerebral palsy, died shortly after his 17th birthday and their daughter, Erin, died the day she was born. Card and his wife live with their youngest living child, Zina, in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The life of their son Charles influenced some of Card's fiction, most notably the Homecoming series, Lost Boys and Folk of the Fringe. Their daughter, Emily, along with two other writers, adapted Card's short stories "Clap Hands and Sing", "Lifeloop" and "A Sepulchre of Songs" for the stage in Posing as People.
In 2008, he appeared in the short film The Delivery, which starred his daughter Emily. He plays an author reading an audiobook in this film, which won First Place in Fantasy at Dragon*Con Film Festival. He wrote an original story, "The Emperor of the Air," specifically for the short film by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki.
Card is an avid fan of the science fiction television series Firefly and makes an appearance in the documentary Done the Impossible about Firefly fandom.
Card suffered a "mild stroke" on January 1, 2011, and was briefly hospitalized. He reports expecting to make a full recovery, although his use of his left hand was impaired, requiring "retraining his brain".
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The Enderverse series
Orson Scott Card - Earth Unaware (read by Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adams, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir and Roxanne Hernandez)
Orson Scott Card - Earth Afire (read by Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Earth Awakens (read by Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Roxanne Hernandez and Emily Rankin)
Orson Scott Card - First Meetings (read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - A War Of Gifts (read by Scott Brick and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Shadow (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Shadow Of The Hegemon (read by David Birney)
Orson Scott Card - Shadow Puppets (read by David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Shadow Of The Giant (read by David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye, Carrington Macduffie, Moira Quirk and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Ender In Exile (read by David Birney, Cassandra Campbell, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kirby Heyborne, Don Leslie, Stefan Rudnicki, Mirron Willis and Orson Scott Card)
Orson Scott Card - Speaker For The Dead (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Xenocide (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Children Of The Mind (read by Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, David Birney, Scott Brick, Amanda Karr and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Shadows In Flight (read by Scott Brick, Emily Janice Card, Kirby Heyborne and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Ender’s World (read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Janis Ian, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki and Orson Scott Card)
Tales of Alvin Maker series
Orson Scott Card - Seventh Son (read by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye, Stefan Rudnicki and Orson Scott Card)
Orson Scott Card - Red Prophet (read by Stephen Hoye, Stefan Rudnicki and Scott Brick)
Orson Scott Card - Prentice Alvin (read by Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Alvin Journeyman (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Heartfire (read by Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kirby Heyborne, Stephen Hoye, Stefan Rudnicki and Mirron Willis)
Orson Scott Card - The Crystal City (read by Stefan Rudnicki, M.E. Willis, David Birney, Scott Brick and Gabrielle de Cuir)
Homecoming Saga series
Orson Scott Card - The Memory Of Earth (read by Carol Jordan Stewart)
Orson Scott Card - The Call Of Earth (read by Carol Jordan Stewart)
Orson Scott Card - The Ships Of Earth (read by Carol Jordan Stewart)
Orson Scott Card - Earthfall (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Earthborn (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Mither Mages series
Orson Scott Card - Stonefather (read by Emily Janice Card)
Orson Scott Card - The Lost Gate (read by Emily Janice Card and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - The Gate Thief (read by Emily Rankin and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Gatefather (read by Emily Rankin and Stefan Rudnicki)
Pathfinder series
Orson Scott Card - Pathfinder (read by Stefan Rudnicki, Kirby Heyborne, Don Leslie, Kristoffer Tabori, Scott Brick and Orson Scott Card)
Orson Scott Card - Ruins (read by Emily Janice Card, Kirby Heyborne and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Visitors (read by Kirby Heyborne, Emily Rankin and Stefan Rudnicki)
Women of Genesis series
Orson Scott Card - Sarah (read by Gabrielle De Cuir)
Orson Scott Card - Rebekah (read by Katherine Bayers)
Orson Scott Card - Rachel And Leah (read by Emily Janice Card)
Pastwatch series
Orson Scott Card - Pastwatch (read by Scott Brick, Christopher Cazenove, Gabrielle de Cuir, Arte Johnson, Moira Quirk, Stefan Rudnicki and Orson Scott Card)
Orson Scott Card - Keeper Of Dreams (read by Scott Brick, Harlan Ellison, Stefan Rudnicki, Orson Scott Card, J. Paul Boehmer, Emily Janice Card, Mark Deacons, Kirby Heyborne and Mirron Willis)
Empire series
Orson Scott Card - Empire (read by Stefan Rudnicki and Orson Scott Card)
Orson Scott Card - Hidden Empire (read by Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki and Rusty Humphries)
Worthing series
Orson Scott Card - The Worthing Saga (read by Scott Brick, Emily Janice Card, Parlin Alison, Erin Johnston, Eric Luke, Corinne Mallinson and Stefan Rudnicki)
Maps in a Mirror series
Orson Scott Card - Maps In A Mirror (Scott Brick, Orson Scott Card, Robert Forster, Michael Gross, Roddy McDowall, Stefan Rudnicki, William Windom, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.)
Orson Scott Card - Null (read by Paul Boehmer, Scott Brick, Arte Johnson, Don Leslie and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - The Hanged Man (read by David Birney, Richard Brewer, Scott Brick, Arte Johnson, Rosalyn Landor, Don Leslie, Stefan Rudnicki and Mirron Willis)
Mayflower Trilogy book 1
Orson Scott Card - Lovelock (read by Emily Rankin)
Laddertop series book 1
Orson Scott Card - Laddertop (read by Emily Janice Card and Stefan Rudnicki)
Other
Orson Scott Card - Enchantment (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Lost Boys (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Songmaster (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Treason (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Magic Street (read by M.E. Willis)
Orson Scott Card - Wyrms (read by Bob Askey)
Orson Scott Card - The Folk Of The Fringe (read by Richard Brewer, Scott Brick, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye, Stefan Rudnicki, Mirron Willis and Orson Scott Card)
Orson Scott Card - Treasure Box (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Hart's Hope (read by Stefan Rudnicki and Carrington Macduffie)
Orson Scott Card - Invasive Procedures (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Homebody (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Stone Tables (read by Richard Howenstine)
Orson Scott Card - A Planet Called Treason (read by Phil Regensdorf)
Orson Scott Card - Cruel Miracles (read by Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki, Tai Sammons, Tom Weiner and Judy Young)
Orson Scott Card - Eye For Eye (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - An Open Book (read by Orson Scott Card)
Orson Scott Card - Intergalactic Medicine Show (read by Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Roxanne Hernandez, Arthur Morey, Emily Rankin and Stefan Rudnicki)
Orson Scott Card - Zanna's Gift (read by Emily Janice Card and Stefan Rudnicki)
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The Enderverse series
http://rapidgator.net/file/7a533abb2fd488023b6e53238c7d7f29/Earth_Unaware.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/20e46aea972cfd2883b2f41e44777893/Earth_Afire.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ff249c7e4686dc0c537d3bf90c38eb92/Earth_Awakens.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c9a2a8a28b4c7400fc610e7ac1cb8413/First_Meetings.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9b3510addf86aaa754b7adc749512f75/Enders_Game.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e3db7f7a55a6704846cc68dba19e8007/A_War_Of_Gifts.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b2246d2f281839335cb6c5085c746ad1/Enders_Shadow.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b922d4975d4fefb4d6185524ebb6a17c/Shadow_Of_The_Hegemon.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/93d7dbbd93f6001717eac44607327091/Shadow_Puppets.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/657ad6e0965a9bc78a634417c2f4c8c8/Shadow_Of_The_Giant.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d0031db166fbcde2ae5ed980aab7334a/Ender_In_Exile.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e9149cd5d44fc0c07adfb107ccfb94c0/Speaker_For_The_Dead.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/011a7c778d22d4d6346f726e0db67669/Xenocide.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a3efc72ccb2bc9ebb4737fd9d1776409/Children_Of_The_Mind.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ec9014de4f17da460154d3a62d1a59f4/Shadows_In_Flight.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0c1826d1f3279073d5b2accaeb021102/Enders_World.rar.html
Tales of Alvin Maker series
http://rapidgator.net/file/8dc4aa25622b299a324df17cb4018b71/Seventh_Son.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/19cc563962c400054be2267cc6742c50/Red_Prophet.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/88d9afbd79978f943b13192954dbb870/Prentice_Alvin.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7561fff0992542b92a617a87757228be/Alvin_Journeyman.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/75ae1aee6fd166b345d07588f6c6b4b9/Heartfire.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e228894903c65212c690204920efdd42/The_Crystal_City.rar.html
Homecoming Saga series
http://rapidgator.net/file/d88c7f19f1266ad45b7e186958b5e1dc/The_Memory_Of_Earth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c762564bcf284ff42263ac18af801710/The_Call_Of_Earth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/41dbf81baee88a5d97c71b388209120d/The_Ships_Of_Earth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a660a8ea3cb64a5db8555dd4b5426520/Earthfall.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d6c3ab3603e1d8f9639c44c410cec9c3/Earthborn.rar.html
Mither Mages series
http://rapidgator.net/file/5bc517992166a706c3b43bbb787cf275/Stonefather.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2bfd741804c557f7f5e1db92ca66a821/The_Lost_Gate.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bb088c311ce69956eb86871776f86090/The_Gate_Thief.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1461a4f8ff6f82c42b6e507883839ed8/Gatefather.rar.html
Pathfinder series
http://rapidgator.net/file/273650815644b866db1c7f1013497950/Pathfinder.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/006a05457b766d2d45c61b09771893c4/Ruins.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/aac7a79f01e50f95d43eface40faa378/Visitors.rar.html
Women of Genesis series
http://rapidgator.net/file/d37d375f7db4ce43f137641bdaa3d528/Sarah.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5510541adb98b1b367914c9db5af7e93/Rebekah.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/17bf7d99573ecb8deb4ed75012a90aae/Rachel_And_Leah.rar.html
Pastwatch series
http://rapidgator.net/file/aece8bdf2ef6b2a3e5592536df9b1317/Pastwatch.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c76f00ecdca4ebd6215b121a8493aedf/Keeper_Of_Dreams.rar.html
Empire series
http://rapidgator.net/file/6a09def19f8a3086faf66493bcaf1167/Empire.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9c2cf8717d4e4f0899389c01610924c0/Hidden_Empire.rar.html
Worthing series
http://rapidgator.net/file/b23051c12de0b5ad18ef566f45f935f5/The_Worthing_Saga.rar.html
Maps in a Mirror series
http://rapidgator.net/file/fb6ae46a20c52513634e80c2a665e4fe/Maps_In_A_Mirror.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/119550a3c1e6323dda011a8f64060c13/Null.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1ec3382104d6c6f5aae18591dae8920e/The_Hanged_Man.rar.html
Mayflower Trilogy
http://rapidgator.net/file/10e3e1e823b87c8f270c18e5ce8d9915/Lovelock.rar.html
Laddertop series
http://rapidgator.net/file/f925a9d66a2b5bab9ec6f8ae3527d7b6/Laddertop.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/6a66b2c690630b0479823d822d41fcad/Enchantment.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cbb5c1d6a96424523ed20d1df0188a86/Lost_Boys.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/632a8f982702e5366ff90f983fca6fa6/Songmaster.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b285b6c1d01909f3a2dd8e18876291e9/Treason.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fbb1c1635da591a0cde35fa2b8511b02/Magic_Street.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2b42ed59c8df0ab1b140eed6cebac175/Wyrms.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a0e1346e3c9e2e7755da60f7c40c899c/The_Folk_Of_The_Fringe.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/eeadd039d076ce95966d4a5d5249c56d/Treasure_Box.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4679a494496413f3cddcaa26b56c9c1a/Harts_Hope.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f8b7da81caa114ed79432aaadb5b02b4/Invasive_Procedures.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/48926e12c3a6aeab56611f595880d7ec/Homebody.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3a66158c6b54166c7b255b5d2acd3bcc/Stone_Tables.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/65968bd1e94b4be6f556f1b69d8be709/A_Planet_Called_Treason.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7a844150d15ef96d9c0b5bd4442175da/Cruel_Miracles.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2961eb6db102c632cba5feda4b81719d/Eye_For_Eye.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/428f28bcaf51e945ff889edb514573c1/An_Open_Book.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/548ab8535c35438d5dced91c78ca39e3/Intergalactic_Medicine_Show.rar.html
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