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8 unusual facts about Orson Scott Card


Earth Awakens

Earth Awakens is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, and the third book of the First Formic Wars trilogy of novels in the Ender's Game series.

Maralik

In fiction, Maralik was introduced as the home town of fictional character Petra Arkanian of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series.

Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show

Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (2008) is an anthology edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card.

Stumpy Point, North Carolina

The town is mentioned in the sci-fi novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, in which the little town is razed sometime in the future to build a spaceport in Pamlico Sound, and the spaceport is unofficially named after Stumpy Point.

The Best Family Home Evening Ever

"Best Family Home Evening Ever!!" is a short story by Orson Scott Card.

In the Question and Answer section of his website Orson Scott Card said that the first time he used the name Byron Walley was when he published the short story "Gert Fram" in Ensign magazine.

The Rise of Christianity

Not only is this book prominently featured within the storyline of Hidden Empire by Orson Scott Card, according to the book's afterword, The Rise of Christianity actually inspired the book's plot.

The Tenth Dimension

The Tenth Dimension has published some of the biggest names in science fiction and fantasy, including Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Aldiss and many others.


Codex Writers Group

Edmund R. Schubert, editor of Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (IGMS), and How To Write Magical Words: A Writer's Companion

Elaine Radford

Elaine Radford is an American author of science fiction and non-fiction, perhaps best known for her controversial 1987 essay drawing parallels between Ender Wiggin and Adolf Hitler -- an essay which drew a rebuttal from Orson Scott Card, and which has been cited by, among others, John Kessel.

Ender Wiggin

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow.

Eugie Foster

Her stories have been published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Interzone.

Foster's short stories have been published in a number of magazines and books, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, Best New Romantic Fantasy 2, and Apex Magazine.

Hainish Cycle

The ansible has been adopted by other science fiction and fantasy authors, such as Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Moon, and Vernor Vinge.

Howard Lyon

Lyon has also done illustrations for the online fantasy and science fiction magazine the InterGalactic Medicine Show (sometimes shortened to IGMS) founded by author Orson Scott Card.

Inertialess drive

Inertialessness, though not for faster-than-light travel, is discussed in Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah's Children, Isaac Asimov's short story The Billiard Ball, Larry Niven’s Known Space universe, Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey, and

Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

Such notables as songwriter Jimmy Webb and novelist Orson Scott Card have written of the tremendous effect that his early story, "The Tunesmith", had on them in their youth.

Mike Fink

In Orson Scott Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker, an alternate history version of Mike Fink appears in every novel after the first.

Red 5 Studios

In July 2011, Red 5 announced a collaboration with Orson Scott Card, author of the science fiction novel Ender's Game, as writer of the Firefall story as well as the creation of a manga novel co-written by his daughter Emily Janice Card and drawn by Joe Ng.

Rhino Times

The newspaper features editorial columns by noted science fiction and fantasy author and Mormon Orson Scott Card and local investigative reporting by New York Times best-selling author Jerry Bledsoe.

Robota

Robota (2003) is an illustrated book by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card about a mysterious fourth planet of the solar system named Orpheus.

Summit Entertainment

“Ender’s Game” is an adaptation by Gavin Hood and stars “Asa Butterfield” as the titular character, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin" of the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card, which was first published as a full-length novel in 1985.

The Mayflower Trilogy

The Mayflower Trilogy is the series of three novels begun in 1994 by Orson Scott Card & Kathryn H. Kidd.


see also

Empire series

The Empire Duet or Empire series, two novels by Orson Scott Card

InterGalactic Medicine Show

IGMS has featured original stories by such award-winning authors as Peter S. Beagle, David Farland, Tim Pratt, Eugie Foster, Bud Sparhawk, Mary Robinette Kowal, James Maxey, Mette Ivie Harrison, Sharon Shinn, Eric James Stone and Orson Scott Card.