He also penned down the The Women of Genesis series centered on principle women in the Bible. Moreover, he adapted the film version of James Cameron’s The Abyss and Marvel’s comic book Ultimate Iron Man into novel form.
The horror novels include titles Lost Boys and Treasure Box. Card continued the series with Xenocide, Ender’s Shadow, Children of the Mind and so on.īesides science fiction, Card has also produced works in other genres, such as horror, mystery etc. Both his books were awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award in consecutive years, rendering him the first sci-fi author to win both prestigious accolades. Following his post-graduation and doctorate, he resumed as a freelance writer and produced the sequel to Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead.
He also worked shortly for the LDS Church magazine, The Ensign. The copyrights for the novel were bought by Ben Bova at Analog Science Fiction and Fact and published in 1977. He later adapted the short story into a novel of the same title. Subsequently, he pursued his passion for science fiction writing and soon the short story “Ender’s Game” appeared while he worked at BYU press. Upon his return to Orem, he started a theater company but as it fell into debt he shut it down. During his time in Brazil he grew deeply enamored of their culture and the several cities he served at became model for the setting of his novels. However, before earning his graduation degree he volunteered his services as a Mormon missionary in Brazil. He was then enrolled at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he opted for archaeology but later switched his major to theatre for which he began to write. It is through his learning of the philosophies that inspired his writings throughout his professional career.Ĭard attended Brigham Young High School, when his family moved to Orem, Utah. During his high school years, he discovered the philosophical works by great Greek and Roman philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Euclid and so on. As he grew, his scope of reading widened and he devoured books on all kind of subjects, including Mormon prophets, archaeology, the Holocaust and histories of medicine. The American history appealed him as he began to read novels and soon he started reading non-fiction works, such as Bruce Catton’s The Army of the Potomac.
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