Ender’s Game starts whispering to his friends Christine, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Dispossessed. Then I walk back to one of my reading places. I love you too.“ Then Ender’s Game catches my eye. They look back at me and I start mumbling something like „Yeah, I know. Which makes for some awkward moments.įrom time to time I walk by, seeing one of those books. It is standing there near loved ones like The Martian, Ready Player One or 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Never heard of Enders’s Game, or what?Īctually, Ender’s Game is sitting on my shelf since forever. But I felt like the motivations of the characters and the aliens were explained much better in the book than in the movie. I finally did see the 'director's cut' in a special edition DVD and it paralleled the book better. I've never felt like James Cameron got the credit he deserved for this movie, though the ending for the theatrical version was pretty lame.

The Abyss was yet another science fiction story that inspired me into my field of study. I really admired her and saw a lot of myself in her character (though not her history with her family). The protagonist in 'The Abyss' is a female aeronautical engineer. Once again, you can understand my bias on things. Then my mom brought home this book by Orson Scott Card, and I knew it would be great. A friend and I were big fans of James Cameron's 'The Terminator' and 'Aliens,' so when we heard he had a new movie coming out, we were pretty excited. I read it as a teenager the same summer that the movie came out. This book was an incredible work of science fiction. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.Ĭard currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.įor further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.įor an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.īesides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy ( Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels ( Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry ( An Open Book), and many plays and scripts.Ĭard was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah.

The Abyss by Orson Scott Card