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.
好像每个孩子儿时都有成为英雄啊救世主啊的梦想,我也不例外。这本小说恐怕就是最好的实现梦想的地方了。虽然情节是老套的人虫大战,但卡特把太空军事学院那段写的如此传神,不愧是星云奖作品。虽然卡特自己说想写的是《死者代言人》,但从后面来看,又出了《安德的影子》来说...
评分《安德的游戏》看得让人心痛,不过是一个小孩,却被安排担负起所谓的人类兴亡使命,而事实上,那场战争,更多是出于假想。在结尾,安德在虫族星球上,与虫族女王的意识对话,让我想起了《三体》中的黑暗森林法则。文明之间,是对抗还是和谐共存?前者是现实,后者是理想。 ...
评分一部很精彩的小说,讲述了在人虫战争背景之下的几个少年天才的成长过程,其中以安德为小说的主人公,安德以他超乎完美的天才能力——我个人认为他已经差不多接近上帝了——克服了诸多几乎无法克服的困难,艰难之极,最终成长为一个天才的军事指挥官,指挥地球的舰队以弱胜强击...
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...
没有传说中的那么神拉。。
评分不敢相信这是1985年的小说,两天一口气读完。结尾处Ender发现Hive queen为他建造的巨人遗迹和end of the world那段,真是让人无法不为之动容。心理游戏的设定很赞,超鸡爱wolf children的那段。很奇怪居然木有人给我推荐过!!
评分比电影精彩很多 故事也讲得通...觉得到最后才精彩了起来 然后就结束了 太快了啊啊啊啊>< 与其说是一部很棒的科幻小说 我觉得这更是一部战争/战士心理学书籍 军事领导培养手册啥的...
评分Don't you ever forget how young and how old children can be.
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。
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