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Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is the American author of Ender's Game (1985), Speaker for the Dead (1986), and the long-running Ender, Shadow, and Alvin Maker series. He also edits anthologies (Wizards Inc., Maps in a Mirror), teaches writing workshops, and writes opinionated cultural criticism.

Reviews

5

Books on file

6

Avg rating

3.8

Years active

1999-2007

Reviewed

Our reviews of Orson Scott Card's work

The takes

What we have said about Orson Scott Card

  • Orson Scott Card editing an SF retrospective anthology. His introductions are worth the book on their own.

  • Orson Scott Card writing Black urban fantasy in suburban LA. Risky for him, mostly successful, genuinely strange in the best way.

  • Orson Scott Card's Russian fairy tale novel. A graduate student in Kiev finds an enchanted princess in a glade. Card outside Ender, and at his most enjoyable.

  • Magic Mirror by Orson Scott Card 1999 review. An illustrated fairy-tale meditation about Hattie, a child who looks into a magic mirror and is asked who she wants to be.

  • Wizards, Inc. edited by Orson Scott Card 2007 review. A 13-story anthology of urban-fantasy and corporate-wizardry stories featuring Esther Friesner, Karen Joy Fowler, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Mark Wandrey.

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