History Creator / OrsonScottCard

* ''{{Enchantment}}'', a re-telling of "Literature/SleepingBeauty". (Not to be confused with the Disney film ''{{Enchanted}}''.)

* Card co-wrote the ''DragonAge'' six-issue comic book miniseries with Aaron Johnstone.

While genuinely famous for his novels, Card's place in recent science-fiction news can be traced in part to his political views, particularly his [[HeteronormativeCrusader negative views towards homosexuality]]. Although for the most part his politics are separate from his fiction, there are exceptions, most notably with the book ''[[OrsonScottCardsEmpire Empire]]''. As such, many fans of Card have formed a love-hate relationship with the man; some encouraging others to read his stuff, but only if they do so in a way that won't give him any money.

* Ultimate {{Iron Man}}. Seriously. It's generally hated by fans, but not for its actual quality (which is decent) but rather because its Tony Stark barely resembles the other writer's Tony Stark.

He teaches creative writing at Southern Virginia University, where he works with colleages to change the paradigm for English and Writing education methods. He also runs an invitation-only annual "boot camp" for writers, of which some participants have gone on to successful writing careers. He has dedicated large amounts of his time to assisting aspiring writers, and those who have been lucky enough to be taught by him often cite him as a contributor to their success. He is also a [[{{Firefly}} Brown]][[FanCommunityNicknames coat]]. According to his blog, he is also a fan of animated films, as well as ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' after being convinced to watch it by his daughter. More recently, Card wrote an article for a newspaper in which he said ''CowboyBebop'' was better than "all but a handful" of sci-fi films.

While genuinely famous for his novels, Card's place in recent science-fiction news can be traced in part to his political views, particularly his [[HeteronormativeCrusader negative views towards homosexuality]]. Although for the most part his politics are separate from his fiction, there are exceptions, most notably with the book ''[[OrsonScottCardsEmpire Empire]]''.As such, many fans of Card have formed a love-hate relationship with the man; some encouraging others to read his stuff, but only if they do so in a way that won't give him any money.

* APlanetCalledTreason: A group of people are banished to the planet Treason after attempting to create a meritocracy within TheRepublic. Being a metal-poor planet, the people of Treason have to barter with "Ambassadors", teleporters connected to TheRepublic, in an attempt to gain the precious iron with which they hope to build a starship with and escape their banishment.

* CompleteMonster: [[invoked]] Jason's father is remembered as such--he destroyed an entire planet.

!!![[EndersGame Ender]][[TheVerse verse]]

While genuinely famous for his novels, Card's place in recent science-fiction news can be traced in part to his political views, particularly his [[HeteronormativeCrusader negative views towards homosexuality]]. As such, many fans of Card have formed a love-hate relationship with the man; encouraging others to read his stuff, but only if they do so in a way that won't give him any money.

Although for the most part his politics are seperate from his fiction, there are exceptions. Most notably with the book ''[[OrsonScottCardsEmpire Empire]]''.

!!!TheTalesOfAlvinMaker

While genuinely famous for his novels, Card's place in recent science-fiction news can be traced in part to his political views, particularly his [[HeteronormativeCrusader negative views towards homosexuality]]. As such, many fans of his fans have formed a love-hate relationship with the man; encouraging others to read his stuff, but only if they do so in a way that won't give him any money.bout homos

While genuinely famous for his novels, Card's place in recent science-fiction news can be traced in part to his political views, and particularly [[HeteronormativeCrusader his beliefs aexuality]]. As such, many fans of his fans have formed a love-hate relationship with the man; encouraging others to read his stuff, but only if they do so in a way that won't give him any money.bout homos

While genuinely famous for his novels, Card's place in recent science-fiction news can be traced in part to his political views, and particularly [[HeteronormativeCrusader his beliefs about homosexuality]]. Politics have begun to creep into his published fiction, most notably in ''[[OrsonScottCardsEmpire Orson Scott Card's Empire]]''.

* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Jason gives a long list of all the bad things he's never done, but remembers anyway because others did them.

** CryonicsFailure: not only are some of the colonists killed, but the remainder all have their personalities, which have to be stored on hard disk prior to cryo, wiped—leaving Jason the task of singlehandedly raising 99 adult-sized kids. (Oh, and the one guy whose personality ''did'' survive? Jason's ArchEnemy.)

* [[MortonsFork Morton's Fork]] When Jason is suspected of having the Swipe, he's tested on three extremely hard astronomy problems, two of which his examiner knows the answers to and the third of which nobody has solved yet. He's really, really smart, so he solves the first two and gets partway through the third without using the Swipe at all. They try to kill him anyway, figuring he must have done ''something'' inhuman to achieve as much as he did. (One assumes that, given his previously established intelligence, if he'd done badly they would have assumed he was doing so deliberately and something was up, so there really was no way out here.)

* IfItsYouItsOkay: The token homosexual character decides that he really doesn't mind sleeping with his wife, once they realize that [[PairTheSpares they really don't have much choice about getting married]].

* Scott Card also worked a brief writer's tenure at ''LucasArts'', writing dialogue for some of their games, including ''TheDig'' and the swordfighting insults in {{Monkey Island}}. (Technically, this makes him the TropeNamer for "YouFightLikeACow".)

* ''Saints'', An AuthorTract about Mormanism set in Victorian England and America.

* ''{{Enchantment}}'', a re-telling of SleepingBeauty. (Not to be confused with the Disney film ''{{Enchanted}}''.)

Card's most well-known series, mostly due the the first book ''[=~Ender's Game~=]''. The series branches off from there:

----

** Not just a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, but a retelling of Sleeping Beauty set in medieval Russia, on a backdrop of war, [[AWizarddidIt witchcraft]], and TimeTravel. BetterThanItSounds and ShownTheirWork.

While genuinely famous for his novels, Card's place in recent science-fiction news can be traced in part to his political views, and particularly [[HeteronormativeCrusader his beliefs about homosexuality]]. Politics have begun to creep into his published fiction, most notably in ''[[OrsonScottCardsEmpire Orson Scott Card's Empire]]''. Now, also infamously known for his [[HeteronormativeCrusader controversial]] novella, [[http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2011summer/card.shtml Hamlet's Father]].

* ''Hamlet's Father'', Card's [[CanonDefilement reimagining]] of {{Theatre/Hamlet}}. Infamously known as one of the more extreme examples of Scott Card's [[FilibusterFreefall private beliefs seeping into his work]].

* ''Hamlet's Father'', Card's [[TheRemake reimagining]] of {{Theatre/Hamlet}}. Infamously known as one of the more extreme examples of Scott Card's [[FilibusterFreefall private beliefs seeping into his work]].

* ''Hamlet's Father'', Card's [[TheRemake reimagining]] of [[Hamlet Shakesphere's Hamlet]]. Infamously known as one of the more extreme examples of Scott Card's [[FilibusterFreefall private beliefs seeping into his work]].

While genuinely famous for his novels, Card's place in recent science-fiction news can be traced in large part to his political views, and particularly [[HeteronormativeCrusader his beliefs about homosexuality]]. Politics have begun to creep into his published fiction, most obviously in ''[[OrsonScottCardsEmpire Orson Scott Card's Empire]]''.

Orson Scott Card is a science fiction author, best known for the book ''[=~Ender's Game~=]'' and its spinoffs. Card is the only author to have won both a HugoAward and a NebulaAward in consecutive years; the books that achieved this are ''Ender's Game'' and ''Speaker for the Dead'', respectively. ''Ender's Game'' is slated for a movie adaptation, [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell with a release date of November 1st, 2013]].

Orson Scott Card is a science fiction author, best known for the book ''[=~Ender's Game~=]'' and its spinoffs. Card is the only author to have won both a HugoAward and a NebulaAward in consecutive years; the books that achieved this are ''Ender's Game'' and ''Speaker for the Dead'', respectively. ''Ender's Game'' is slated for a movie adaptation, [[DevelopmentHell release date to be announced]].