Card's launch in the publication industry was by using science fiction (Hot Sleep and Capitol) and later fantasy (Songmaster). He remains better known for the originative ''Ender's Game, which has been among the most popular sci-fi novels ever since its publication in 1985. Ender's Game & its sequel Speaker for the Dead'' were awarded both a Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, making Card the sole creator (as of 2004) ever to win both of sci-fi's top prizes inside sequentially years. Card continued a series by using Xenocide, Youngsters of the Mind, ''Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, & a 2005 release of Shadow of the Giant''. Card has as well announced the 'Christmas inside Battle School' book, a book that connects the "Shadow" series & "Speaker" series together, & the book that will require place when Shadow of the Giant & prior to Card's short story A Investment Counselor. Moreover, Card recently announced that ''Ender's Game will soon be made into a movie (see Ender's Game (movie)).

He has since branched retired into contemporary fiction, like Lost Boys, Treasure Box and Enchantment. More works demonstrating his versatility include a novelisation of the James Cameron film The Abyss, the surrogate histories The Tales of Alvin Maker and Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, the comic book Ultimate Iron Man'' for Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel Universe series, and Robota, a collaboration using Star Wars artist Doug Chiang.

His writing is dominated by elaborate characterization and moral issues. When Card says, "We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction."

Occasionally of his novels, for instance Stone Tables, about a life of the Biblical prophet Moses; his Women of Genesis series; The Folk Of The Fringe stories; and Saints, about Latter-day Saint pioneers, have expressed religious themes. Inside his more writings, a influence of his Mormon beliefs is less obvious; Card's Homecoming & Alvin Maker sagas come part retellings of the Book of Mormon and the life of LDS founder Joseph Smith, Jr.

Additionally to his novels & short stories, Card has got an active career as a nonfiction writer. When you took a 1980s he wrote many technical indicator articles & columns, primarily for ''Compute!'s Gazette and Ahoy!, two magazines covering Commodore home computers.

Early life, family, and career
Card was innate inside Richland, Washington; raised in California, Arizona, and Utah; served an LDS mission in Brazil; graduated from either Brigham Young University and the University of Utah; and today sleep in Greensboro, North Carolina. He & his married woman Kristine come the parents of 5 kids: Geoffrey (a promulgated creator around his have perfect), Emily (who adapted his short story "A Sepulchre of Songs" to the stage in Posing as People''), Charlie Ben, Zina Margaret, and Erin Louisa. Them come known as for the authors Chaucer, Brontë and Dickinson, Dickens, Mitchell, and Alcott.

Inside 2005, Card accepted a lasting appointment when prof at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, Virginia. Card has justified this action by citing his frustration by owning permeant & blue teaching methodology for originative writing. Card has worked closely by using colleagues to respond with fresh & effectual ways to educate wishful writers & has published deuce books on the subject. He was zealous for the chance to use these techniques within the university environment—his assorted workshops did non allow a watch-across he desired. Card splits his instance evenly between writing & teaching.

Personal views
Card is besides active as a critic, political writer & speaker. Shortly when a September 11, 2001 attacks Card began to write a hebdomadally "War Watch" (late renamed "World Watch") column for the Greensboro Rhino Times as well as "Uncle Orson Reviews everything" which are then each archived in Card's site. The self-described Moynihan Democrat, Card is a vocal supporter of George W. Bush, the war on terror, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the USA PATRIOT Act, and U.S. trend lines of Israel. Card is too publicly opposed to equivalent-sex marriage & precipitous actiin on global warming, although he supports government-funded research into alternative energy sources and a phasing away from fossil fuel use. Card is likewise publicly opposed to blocking them of illegal immigrants from receiving inside-state college tuition rates, tax cuts which favor the rich, & unchained deregulation.

Other
Card presaged a construct of the hyperlink in his short story "The Originist", written swell prior to a birth of the World Wide Web. In the equivalent story, he describes the locate technique that has the total of parallels by using Wikipedia.

Card's description inside ''Ender's Game (1985) of ii precocious tykes achieving political prominence across anon. postings on the "Nets" is an early & uncannily exact prediction of the Internet and the popularity of Blogs.

Selected bibliography

Pre-Ender's Game works
Capitol (1978) Hot Sleep (1978) A Planet Called Treason (1978) Songmaster (1979) Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories (1980) Hart's Hope (1983) The Worthing Chronicle (revised edition of Hot Sleep and Capitol) (1983) Saints (1983)

The Ender saga
Ender's Game (1985) Speaker for the Dead (1986) Xenocide (1991) Children of the Mind (1996) First Meetings (collection of short stories) (2002)

The Shadow series
Ender's Shadow ("parallel" novel to Ender's Game) (1999) Shadow of the Hegemon (2001) Shadow Puppets (2002) Shadow of the Giant (2005)

The Tales of Alvin Maker
Seventh Son (1987) Red Prophet (1988) Prentice Alvin (1989) Alvin Journeyman (1995) Heartfire (1998) The Grinning Man (short story, published in Legends) (1998) The Yazoo Queen (short story, published in Legends II) (2003) The Crystal City (2003) Master Alvin (forthcoming)

The Homecoming Saga
The Memory of Earth (1992) The Call of Earth (1992) The Ships of Earth (1994) Earthfall (1995) Earthborn (1995)

The "Women of Genesis" series
Sarah (2000) Rebekah (2001) Rachel and Leah (2004) The Wives of Israel (forthcoming)

Other post-Ender's Game works
Cardography (short story collection) (1987) Wyrms (1987) Treason (revised edition of A Planet Known as Treason) (1988) The Folk Of The Fringe (1989) The Abyss (1989) (with James Cameron) Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1990) Eye For Eye / Tunesmith (Tor double novel) (1990) (Eye For Eye is by Card, Tunesmith is by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.) The Worthing Saga (1990) (revision of The Worthing Chronicle) Lost Boys (1992) Lovelock (1994) (with Kathryn H. Kidd) Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996) Treasure Box (1996) Stone Tables (1997) Homebody (1998) Enchantment (1999) Magic Mirror'' (1999) (children's book, art by Nathan Pinnock) Robota (2003) (art by Doug Chiang) Magic Street (2005) Pastwatch: The Flood (forthcoming) Rasputin (forthcoming) (with Kathryn H. Kidd) Ultimate Iron Man [http://www.hatrack.com/misc/ultimateironman/index.shtml] (graphic novel) (2005)

Plays
Posing as People (2004) (three of these-work plays according to short stories by Card, number one production directed by Card) Non-fiction works
Listen, Mom and Dad (1978) Ainge (1982) Saintspeak (1982) A Storyteller in Zion (1993)

Books on writing
Characters & Viewpoint (1988) Training Write Science Fiction & Fantasy (1990)

Columns
Globe View (at one time called War Watch over) for the Rhino Days (an independent Greensboro, NC newspaper) Uncle Orson Reviews All about for the Rhino Days (an independent Greensboro, NC newspaper) Anthem of the Heart for Meridian Magazine [http://www.meridianmagazine.com] (an LDS online magazine)

Other projects
''Ender's Game (movie) (forthcoming) Advent Rising (June, 2005) a third-person shooter being developed for Windows and Xbox by GlyphX Advent Shadow (forthcoming, July 12 2005) a video game, being developed for the Sony PSP by Majesco Alvin's World (forthcoming) an MMORPG, being developed for Windows by eGenesis The Secret of Monkey Island wrote the insults for the insult swordfighting section The Dig (wrote dialogues) Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Indicate'' (low magazine)