Ender's Shadow - by Orson Scott Card (Paperback)
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<p><b>Orson Scott Card</b> is best known for his science fiction novel <i>Ender's Game</i> and it's many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. 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 <i>Ender's Shadow</i> 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. <p/>Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. 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 <i>The Ensign</i>, and the novelette version of Ender's Game in the August issue of <i>Analog</i>. <p/>The novel-length version of <i>Ender's Game</i>, 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. <p/>Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University. <p/>He is the author many sf and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with <i>Seventh Son</i>), There are also stand-alone science fiction and fantasy novels like <i>Pas******ch</i> and <i>Hart's Hope</i>. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like <i>Empire</i> and historical novels like the monumental <i>Saints</i> and the religious novels <i>Sarah</i> and <i>Rachel</i> and <i>Leah</i>. Card's recent work includes the Mithermages books (<i>Lost Gate</i>, <i>Gate Thief</i>), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old. <p/>Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren. <p/><b>Scott Brick</b> has performed on film, television and radio. He appeared on stage throughout the United States in productions of <i>Cyrano</i>, <i>Hamlet</i>, <i>Macbeth</i> and other plays. In addition to his acting work, Scott choreographs fight sequences, and was a combatant in films including Romeo and Juliet, The Fantasticks and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. He has also been hired by Morgan Freeman to write the screenplay adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's <i>Rendezvous with Rama</i>. <p/>Scott first began narrating audiobooks in 2000, and after recording almost 400 titles in five years, <i>AudioFile</i> magazine named Scott a Golden Voice and one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy. He has read a number of titles in Frank Herbert's bestselling Dune series, and he won the 2003 Science Fiction Audie Award for <i>Dune: The Butlerian Jihad</i>. He has also won over 40 <i>AudioFile</i> Earphones Awards. In 2007, Scott was named <i>Publishers Weekly</i>'s Narrator of the Year.</p>
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