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Latest revision as of 07:47, 29 November 2022
(August 24, 1951 –)
Orson Scott Card is an American pro writer living in North Carolina, probably best known for Ender's Game and its sequels and his rightwing mundane political views. He founded a prozine, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, in 2005.
The great-great-grandson of Latter Day Saints icon Brigham Young, Card has been outspoken with opinions that follow the Mormon political agenda.
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
- Website.
- “Orson Scott Card's long history of homophobia” by Aja Romano, Salon, May 7, 2013.
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1978 -- 1978 Campbell Award
- 1979 -- Bubonicon 11
- 1980 -- Toastmaster at Intervention Beta
- 1981 -- Hamilton-Brackett Award for "Songmaster", Toastmaster at Noncon 4
- 1983 -- MystiCon 2.5, NonCon 6, Life, the Universe, & Everything 1
- 1986 -- Con*Stellation V, AggieCon XVII, InConJunction VI, Life, the Universe, & Everything 4, Hamilton-Brackett Award, 1986 Best Novel Hugo for "Ender's Game"
- 1987 -- Alternacon, Necronomicon '87, Phoenix Award, Life, the Universe, & Everything 5, 1987 Best Novel Hugo for Speaker for the Dead
- 1988 -- Philcon 88, Windycon XV, Mythopoeic Society Award for Seventh Son, 1988 Best Novella Hugo for "Eye for Eye"
- 1989 -- Baycon '89, DeepSouthCon 27 / MidSouthCon 8
- 1991 -- Hillcon 2, 1991 Best Non-Fiction Book Hugo for How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
- 1992 -- Octocon 1992, Marcon 27, Skylark Award
- 1993 -- Lunacon 36, Life, the Universe, & Everything 11
- 1997 -- Mythcon XXVIII, Life, the Universe, & Everything 15, Hispacon XV
- 2000 -- Loscon 27
- 2001 -- Necronomicon 2001
- 2003 -- Life, the Universe, & Everything 21
- 2005 -- Boskone 42, Swancon 24
- 2008 -- Life, the Universe, & Everything 26, Vericon VIII, ALAs Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Contribution to Young Adult Literature; Whitney Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2010 -- Polcon 2010
- 2013 -- MystiCon 2013
- 2014 -- Life, the Universe, & Everything 32
- 2015 -- Con*Stellation XXXIV
- multiple other Hugo nominations
- multiple Nebula Awards and nominations
- multiple Locus Awards
- multiple SF Chronicle Reader's Poll Awards
- multiple World Fantasy Awards
| Person | 1951— |
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