Orson Scott Card [24 August 1951 - ] was born in Richland, Washington and is a prolific and best-selling author of numerous genres. His initial launch in the publishing industry was with
science fiction (
Enders Game &
Speaker for the Dead) and later
fantasy ([Seventh Son]
?). However, he has not limited himself to those themes. Stories of horror and suspense such as [Lost Boys]
? and [Treasure Box]
? demonstrate his versatiliity.
His writing is dominated by detailed characterization and moral issues. As Card says, "We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness -- the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction."
Some of his novels, for example [Stone Tables]?, which is a novel about the life of Biblical Moses, have explicit religious themes. In his other writings, the influence of his Mormon beliefs is not as obvious, but still there.
Incomplete bibliography of Orson Scott Card's writings:
- The Ender Series
- Tales of Alvin Maker
- [Seventh Son]? (1987)
- [Red Prophet]? (1988)
- [Prentice Alvin]? (1989)
- [Alvin Journeyman]? (1995)
- Heartfire? (1998) (France awarded Heartfire its highest science fiction award, Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2000)
- The Homecoming Saga
- [The Memory of Earth]? (1992)
- [The Call of Earth]? (1992)
- [The Ships of Earth]? (1994)
- Earthfall? (1995)
- Earthborn? (1995)
- Songmaster?
- Treason (1988)
- Lovelock? (1994) (with Kathyrn H. Kidd)
- [Hart's Hope]?
- [The Abyss]? (novelization of the movie of the same name)
- Wyrms?
- [[Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus]]
- [Stone Tables]? (1997)
- [Treasure Box]? (1996)
- [Lost Boys]? (1992)
Books on writing
- Character and Viewpoint
- How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
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