Título: Orson Scott Card
Seção: Science fiction
Background: Card is the son of Willard Richards Card and Peggy Jane (nee Park), the third of six children and the older brother of composer and arranger Arlen Card. Card was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Santa Clara, California as well as Mesa, Arizona and Orem, Utah. He served as a missionary for the LDS Church in Brazil and graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) and the University of Utah; he also spent a year in a Ph.D. program at the University of Notre Dame. For part of the 1970s Card worked as an associate editor of the Ensign, an official magazine of the LDS Church.

Conteúdo: He wrote the short story "Ender's Game" while working at the BYU press, and submitted it to several publications. The idea for the later novel of the same title came from the short story about a school where boys can fight in space. It was eventually purchased by Ben Bova at Analog Science Fiction and Fact and published in the August 1977 issue. Meanwhile, he started writing half-hour audioplays on LDS Church history, the New Testament, and other subjects for Living Scriptures in Ogden, Utah; on the basis of that continuing contract, some freelance editing work, and a novel contract for Hot Sleep and A Planet Called Treason, he left Ensign and began supporting his family as a freelancer.  He completed his master's degree in English at the University of Utah in 1981 and began a doctoral program at the University of Notre Dame, but the recession of the early 1980s caused the flow of new book contracts to temporarily dry up. He returned to full-time employment as the book editor for Compute! magazine in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1983. In October of that year, a new contract for the Alvin Maker "trilogy" (now up to six books) allowed him to return to freelancing.  Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead were both awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, making Card the only author (as of 2015) to win both of science fiction's top prizes in consecutive years. Card continued the series with Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Sha

user: When did Card start writing science fiction?

assistant: was eventually purchased by Ben Bova at Analog Science Fiction and Fact and published in the August 1977 issue.

user: What was the name of the story Analog published in August 1977?

assistant: He wrote the short story "Ender's Game" while working at the BYU press,

user: So, Ender's Game was first published in Analog magazine--when did it become a book?

assistant: Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead were both awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award,

user: Who was the publisher of Ender's Game?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Was Ender's Game his first published book?

assistant: Card continued the series with Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, "

user: How was Ender's Game received by critics?

assistant: Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead were both awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award,

user: How large an advance did he receive for Ender's Game?

assistant: but the recession of the early 1980s caused the flow of new book contracts to temporarily dry up.