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Aim: AnnaLynn Palmer

Aim: AnnaLynn Palmer  Cover of Book

Orson Scott Card’s aim was to write novels about science fiction. He has written multiple novels, including //Ender’s Game,// //Children of the Mind, Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Giant, Shadows in Fligh//t, and many more. Literary critics say that,“I would recommend this book to readers because of its excitement, meaning and unpredictability ”(//The Guardian//). His largest hit was the book Ender’s Game. At the time that he was writing, Science fiction was very big. Many people wanted to read books about the future, and see what authors believe the future will look like. The picture above is an image of the book cover. It shows what he imagined the main setting of the book to look like. I’m sure he encouraged many kids to act how they want to.

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Orson Scott Card

Historical: Matt Martin



Orson Scott Card is a very acclaimed science fiction writer. He has had a huge historical impact on the world. In addition to science fiction writing, he is a public speaker and a columnist. His novel Ender’s Game won the Hugo award and the Nebula award, and have heavily influenced science fiction writing today. “Card's ideas concerning society- as well as themes within his fiction are very heavily influential.” (Hatrack River). This quote shows that Card is highly regarded within the writing community, and will continue to impact how science fiction is written to this day.

Audience: Jeremiah Reyes

 The type of people that would read Orson Scott Card’s books were people who were into a scientific-fiction. I know that these type of people would be into this type of book because after you look up the book __Ender’s Game__ it says in the description about the book,“ Ender’s Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card”(Feedback). This is therefore showing that the people that would be interested in this are people that who would be interested in war like novels, that involve Scientific Fiction. He has made people want to read more and more of his books just because of how good they were.

Term: Orson Scott Card Adam Crum <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cultural

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Orson Scott Card has a cultural impact that involve his views and beliefs. One is his cultural views is a communitarian outlook on politics as shown when wikipedia states, “Card's ideals concerning society—as well as foundational themes within his fiction—are described communitarian” (Orson Scott Card). With this political view his books brought attention to some of his beliefs. Some examples are the Soviet Union’s government and the U.S. war on terrorism. Another one of his cultural impacts is his opposition to same sex marriage. One way this is proven is when he writes, “...Hamlet's Father, which re-imagines the backstory of Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Card was accused of directly trying to link the king's pedophilia with homosexuality” (Orson Scott Card). Card’s books that are similar to this bring debates about homosexuality with regional, personal, and cultural views from the community bring out a huge impact. A final cultural impact is when Card has his characters go through cultural changes. He said this in a discussion when he stated, “As a sci-fi/fantasy writer, I could draw on that experience to show my characters undergoing similar cultural shifts, and it helped me greatly in creating other cultures” (Live Chat Orson Scott Card). With his characters going through cultural changes he is able to let societies everywhere know that there are many different cultures other than their own. All these views and beliefs that Card has have a cultural impact through his writing to have us understand more.