Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.
Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts.
Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.
Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.
For further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.
For an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card.
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. "Ender's Game" is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
自从亚当夏娃因为毒蛇的谎言而偷吃了智慧果之后,人类很快就学会了撒谎,并且将谎言活学活用,开启了滔滔不绝的说谎历程。谎言几乎就是人类文明的一部分,甚至有时候它本身就是文明的象征:历史上,大部分的统治都是建立在一个弥天大谎的基础之上。 《安德的游戏》,也是...
评分从科幻硬核、思想性、可读性等等诸多方面,安德系列都达到了一个前所未有的高度 非常精彩的(天才儿童的出现、游戏的结果和屠异的前提,霸主的重生),引发思考的(豆子的命运,安德的来历,安塞波的主人,猪族星球上的生态悖论和人类暴动的简单模型,虫族女王和树的意识交流...
评分我也喜欢刘慈欣的小说,尤其是《球状闪电》,因为两者都有政治特色。因为是美国作家,他会有冷战思维,而且美国人参政意识很强,所以洛克可以协同她的妹妹在这件事上大做文章,其实这也是科幻的一部分,过程很有创意。还有在训练营里那个要荣誉到极端暴力的西班牙人,被讽刺...
评分《安德的游戏》呼唤起一些理性的热情,那曾经是我们一直想要的自己么?——一个冷静面对所有挑战、按部就班、稳步上升、兵来将挡、将一步步胜利统统囊括于怀中的人类么? 以前认为要描写一个天才是很难很难的事。现在发觉完全不是这样可怕的。每个人都有成为天才的潜质,只要...
评分从科幻硬核、思想性、可读性等等诸多方面,安德系列都达到了一个前所未有的高度 非常精彩的(天才儿童的出现、游戏的结果和屠异的前提,霸主的重生),引发思考的(豆子的命运,安德的来历,安塞波的主人,猪族星球上的生态悖论和人类暴动的简单模型,虫族女王和树的意识交流...
许久没读好科幻,简单、直接,干净利落的正如安德胜利的那场战争。如Mazer所强令的, 停止抱怨。If you are in pain, it means you are learning and progressing. Maybe should feel lucky to be gifted and not waste it for sth unworthy or simply worrying about future.
评分于是他们上了一艘飞船,从一个世界到另一个世界。无论来到哪个世界,他总是安德鲁•维京,巡游宇宙的死者代言人,而她总是华伦蒂•维京,流浪的历史学家。安德讲述死者的故事,她则写下生者的故事。
评分许久没读好科幻,简单、直接,干净利落的正如安德胜利的那场战争。如Mazer所强令的, 停止抱怨。If you are in pain, it means you are learning and progressing. Maybe should feel lucky to be gifted and not waste it for sth unworthy or simply worrying about future.
评分前大半很像精彩的少年冒险小说,但结尾的出乎意料和哲学深意让故事上了一个台阶。
评分读完了Kindle版,是第二遍读这部作品了。这部作品有时会被称作青少年读物的原因是因为你应该在青少年时期读完它
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