He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He is the author many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series 'The Tales of Alvin Maker' (beginning with Seventh Son), and stand-alone novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s.

The novel-length version of Ender's Game, 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.Ĭard was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah.

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 The Ensign, and the novelette version of 'Ender's Game' in the August issue of Analog. Those books are organized into the Ender Saga, which chronicles the life of Ender Wiggin the Shadow Series, which follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and is set on Earth and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, which tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien 'Buggers.' Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. The adventure, suspense, and time travel continue in this second installment in the critically acclaimed New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling Pathfinder series. If Rigg, Umbo, and Param can’t work together to alter the past, there will be no future.

Because although Rigg can decipher the paths of the past, he can’t yet see the horror that lies ahead: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling toward Garden. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh-a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive-but they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. From Orson Scott Card, the internationally bestselling author of Ender’s Game, comes the second novel in the Pathfinder trilogy, the riveting story of Rigg, a teenager who possesses a special power that allows him to see the paths of people’s pasts.

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