There's one plot thread about the religious fundamentalist preacher with feet of clay, whose obedient son is trying to get himself turfed out of Battle School, where the military is training kids and teens to fight the alien Formics (the main setting in Ender's Game). It seems pretty evident that that's what he did here. I once read a quote from Orson Scott Card in which he said that he likes to find two unrelated ideas that grab him, and then combine them into one story. So this raises some interesting questions: Was I thinking about a different Ender story when I originally rated it? Was it so unmemorable that I read it a few years ago, rated it and then completely forgot it? Am I an unknowing time traveler? (I really want that last answer to be the right one.)Īnyway. I get on Goodreads, pull up "A War of Gifts," and there it is: I've already given this book a 3-star rating. I read it in about an hour, thought, not great, not bad, maybe a 3-star read. I picked up this novella in the library one day, thinking, hey, here's a story in the Enderverse that I haven't read yet. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.Ĭard currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.įor further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.įor an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. 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.īesides 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.Ĭard was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah.
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