Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card
Born	August 24, 1951(1951-08-24) Richland, Washington
Occupation	Novelist, English Professor
Genres	Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, LDS fiction
Notable work(s)	Ender's Game series
Official website

Awards

1978-1980

1978 Campbell Award winner

1981-1990

Awards for Ender's Game:

• 1985 Nebula Award
• 1986 Hugo Award

Awards for Speaker for the Dead:

• 1986 Nebula Award
• 1987 Hugo Award
• 1987 Locus Award

Awards for Seventh Son:

• 1988 Locus Award
• 1988 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
• 1989 Ditmar Award
• 2000 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire

1989 Locus Award for Red Prophet

1991-2000

1992 AML Award for Novel for Lost Boys

Awards for Xenocide:

• 1991 AML Award for Novel
• 1992 Hugo Award nominee

1996 Locus Award for Alvin Journeyman

2000 Alex Award winner for Ender's Shadow

2001-2010

2005 AML Award for Novel honorable mention for Magic Street

2006 AML Award for Novel honorable mention for Empire

2008 Lifetime Achievement Whitney Award

2008 Whitney Award for Best Speculative Fiction finalist for Ender in Exile

2010 Whitney Award for Best Speculative Fiction finalist for Pathfinder

2011-

2010 Whitney Award for Speculative Fiction finalist for The Lost Gate

Fiction

Standalone Novels

1970-1979

Treason (1979)

1980-1989

Songmaster (1980)
Hart's Hope (1983)
Saints (1983)
Wyrms (1987)
Treason (1998)
The Abyss from the screenplay by James Cameron (1989)

1990-1999

The Folk of the Fringe (1990)
Eye for Eye published as a double novel with Tunesmith by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1990)
Lost Boys (1992)
Maps in a Mirror Volume 1 (1992)
Maps in a Mirror Volume 2 (1992)
The Changed Man (1992)
Flux (1992)
Monkey Sonatas (1992)
Cruel Miracles (1992)
Lovelock with Katherine H. Kidd (1994)
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
Treasure Box (1996)
Stone Tables (1997)
Homebody (1998)
Enchantment (1999)
Magic Mirror (1999)

2000-2009

Robota (2003)
An Open Book (2004)
Magic Street (2005)
Invasive Procedures with Aaron Johnston (2007)
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)
The Space Boy (2007)

2010-2011

Pathfinder (2010)
The Lost Gate (2011)

Fiction Series

The Worthing Series:

• Capitol (1979)
• Hot Sleep (1979)
• The Worthing Chronicle (1983)
• The Worthing Saga (1990)

Ender's Game Series:

• Ender's Game (1985)
• Speaker for the Dead (1986)
• Xenocide (1991)
• Children of the Mind (1996)
• Ender's Shadow (1999)
• Shadow of the Hegemon (2000)
• Shadow Puppets (2002)
• First Meetings: In the Enderverse (2003)
• Shadow of the Giant (2005)
• Ender in Exile (2008)

Tales of Alvin Maker:

• Seventh Son (1987)
• Red Prophet (1988)
• Prentice Alvin (1989)
• Alvin Journeyman (1995)
• Heartfire (1998)
• The Crystal City (2003)

Homecoming Saga:

• The Memory of Earth (1992)
• The Call of Earth (1993)
• The Ships of Earth (1994)
• Earthfall (1995)
• Earthborn (1995)

The Women of Genesis:

• Sarah (2000)
• Rebekah (2001)
• Rachel and Leah (2004)

Empire Duet:

• Empire (2006)
• Hidden Empire (2009)

Short Stories

"Gert Fram," published in the Ensign, July 1977

"The Fringe," published in The Folk of the Fringe (1989)

"Worthy to be One of Us," published in Turning Hearts: Short Stories on Family Life (1994)

"The Elephants of Poznan," published in Fantastyka

Short Story Collections

Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories (1980)
Cardography (1987)
Folk of the Fringe (1989)
Maps in a Mirror (1990)

Keeper of Dreams (2008)

Non-fiction

Books

Listen, Mom and Dad (1977)
Saintspeak (1981)
Ainge (1981)
Characters and Viewpoint (1988)
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (1990)

Essays and Articles

"Families in Fiction," published in Turning Hearts: Short Stories on Family Life (1994)

Essay Collections

A Storyteller in Zion (1993)

Plays

1969-1979

The Morning After (premiered in 1969)
The Apostate (1970)
Across Five Summers (workshopped in 1971)
Of Gideon (1971)
Stone Tables (1973)
Father, Mother, Mother, and Mom (1974)
A Christmas Carol (1974)
Liberty Jail (play) (1975)
Rag Mission (as Brian Green), published in the Ensign, July 1977
Liberty Jail (musical) (1978)
Fresh Courage Take (1978)
Elders and Sisters (1979)

1980-1997

A Dixie Christmas Carol (1989)
Barefoot to Zion (1997)

Theatrical Adaptations of Works by Card

Quietus and Other Stories, premiered February 26, 1997

Plays published in Posing as People: Three Stories, Three Plays (2004):

• Clap Hands and Sing: A One-Act Play (original short story)
  
• Lifeloop: A One-Act Play (original short story)
  
• A Sepulchre of Songs: A One-Act Play (original short story)
  

Poetry

1976-1979

"In a Crowded Sunday School Class," published in Sunstone, issue 2 (Spring 1976)

"Is Prophecy a Gift?," published in Sunstone, issue 2 (Spring 1976)

"Looking West," published in the Ensign, (July 1977)

1980-1989

"Openings," published in BYU Studies, vol. 21, no. 2 (Spring 1981)

"From a Spirit to the One Possessed," published in Amazing Stories, (November 1981)

"Abel, Cain," published in BYU Studies, vol. 21, no. 1 (Winter 1981)

"Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow," published in Sunstone (August 1989)

Poetry Collections

An Open Book: Poems (2004)

See Also

• Hatrack River Publications
• Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
• 75 Significant Mormon Poets

External Links

• Hatrack River (official web site of Orson Scott Card)
• Orson Scott Card at Mormon Literature Database
• Orson Scott Card on LibraryThing
• Orson Scott Card on Wikipedia