He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.

Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977-the short story 'Gert Fram' in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of 'Ender's Game' in the August issue of Analog. Those books are organized into the Ender Quintet, the five books that chronicle the life of Ender Wiggin the Shadow Series, that follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and are set on Earth and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, that tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien 'Buggers.' Card has been a working writer since the 1970s.

Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)Įarth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Formic War series (The First Formic War and The Second Formic War) are the prequels to Enders story.Įnders Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile / Children of the FleetĮnders Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Can Earths warring nations and corporations put aside their differences and mount an effective defense?Įnder's Game is one of the most popular and bestselling science fiction novels of all time.

Now its clear that theres a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.Ĭard and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Warsthe alien invasions of Earths Solar System that ultimately led to Ender Wiggins total victory in Ender's Game.Ī coalition of Earths nations barely fought off the Formics first scout ship.

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