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.
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...
評分这真是一个残忍的故事。一群大人为了所谓的“爱国爱乡爱地球“的拯救人类的英雄情结,把一个几岁大的小孩心中残暴的一面引诱出来,继而培养他成为”人虫“大战的总司令。可是这场战争真的有意义吗?虫族已经不再挑起战争,而人类或是为了安心,或是为了安抚地球动荡不安的情绪...
評分论起喜欢的人物,仍然是安德,偏重于前两部里的他。其实维京家的三个孩子我都喜欢。各种性格才华的极端造造成了不真实,但心理的斗争,精神的纠缠又是真实的。 还有那个对安德说“安拉”的孩子。 而行文的精彩,记忆最深的有以下几处:《安德的游戏》彼德和华伦蒂的控制与反控...
評分每个人都有自己yy的方向,而安德这个孩子,恰好和我的很接近。 按照上帝的意愿-应该每个人都是得上帝宠爱的,都是上帝的子民。存在即合理这种说法是积极的人生必备良药。我一直都指望不被重视和重视得到一个很好的平衡,可是,事实是,一旦重视,就一定会趋向于过度。 不被重...
評分从科幻硬核、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...
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评分略顯冗長
评分Don't you ever forget how young and how old children can be.
评分少年版拿破侖。
评分The details of this "game" lack intelligence and imagination that it was almost childish, naturally... Maybe I was expecting too much.
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