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.
Besides 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.
Card was born in Washington 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 teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He recently began a longterm position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.
Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.
For further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.
For an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card.
发表于2024-05-17
Speaker for the Dead 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
必须先看《安德的游戏》再看此书,因为只有两相对比才能显出此书的厚重。 初中时看《安德的游戏》,做梦都想成为安德一样的军事天才,带领人类打败虫族!那是多么激情澎湃的感觉!就像人的年少轻狂!《安德的游戏》给年少的我留下了不可磨灭的英雄梦。 可惜后来忙于应试教育,...
评分其实我不应该一看完就写评论的,等过几年,再读一遍的时候会更好.不过我想,几年后我当然可以写得更冷静,更深入,但是此刻初次阅读的情绪恐怕也就没有了,带点情绪也未必没有价值. 杰出的作品,让每个人都可以用自己的方式来读,《死者代言人》就是这样的一面镜子,我们从中照见自...
评分总觉得比《安德的游戏》要差一口气。 从深度和广度来看,《死者代言人》明显比《安德的游戏》更有野心。后者的对立在于虫族和人族,而前者则建构了一个复杂的多的世界:人类、“猪仔”、虫族、简...卡德试图在那个星球上建立一个乌托邦,各种各样的智慧都能够和谐完美的共同生...
评分图书标签: 科幻 小说 英文原版 安德系列 OrsonScott Ender 美国 Sci-Fi
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth. "Speaker for the Dead" is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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评分Orson Card这个人的文笔,简直是证明了小学生也能写名著
评分英文版done.
评分经过一个多礼拜的努力,俺终于读完这本长篇小说,不得不说,这本书,还是非常有趣,故事本身让人想要一只读下去,想要了解整个事情的经过,而有声读物也很不错,听起来很舒服。期待下一本
评分it's just okay. not that great. Ender's Game just did not rise my interest that much. Sorry.
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