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Reading festival cracks the books
... teens can participate in a Read-a-thon at the Oakley Library beginning at 3:30 p.m. Participants will read Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game," then play games, eat tacos and create a movie trailer, poster or script based on the book. The Brentwood ...
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Geek Lit Throwdown: Orson Scott Card Takes On J.K. Rowling
... of the vocal fan community , has recently received a vote of support from a seemingly unlikely ally. Author Orson Scott Card blasted Rowling in Greensboro's news and opinion weekly The Rhinoceros Times saying: Can you believe that J.K. Rowling is ...
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... I'm sure he probably did have lots of great qualities, he was almost certainly human. Even before I read Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead , I think I agreed with its basic idea: the idea of trying to neither praise nor blame the dead, but to ...
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Author says Potter lawsuit is "a crock"
... website of the same name -- is in fact copyright infringement. Veteran science fiction/fantasy author Orson Scott Card, however, has made no secret of how he thinks the court should rule in this particular case: In a recent column for an online ...
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... debating that complex question since January 14, when this year's Margaret A. Edwards Award was handed to Orson Scott Card. The award, established in 1988, honors an author and a specific portion of his or her work, and is administered by the Young ...
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... of graphic novels and the two standout literary works, American Gods and The Anansi Boys. The other is Orson Scott Card, whose work Ender's Game won Hugo and Nebula awards in 2006. Both of these authors would know something about infringement. Both ...
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Nebula Award Best Novel winners
... 1989 Falling Free / Lois McMaster Bujold 1988 The Falling Woman / Pat Murphy 1987 Speaker for the Dead / Orson Scott Card 1986 Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card 1985 Neuromancer / William Gibson 1984 Startide Rising David Brin 1983 No Enemy But Time / ...
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... actually outsold Scott Westerfeld 's Uglies by twice as many copies, which in turn outsold the classic Orson Scott Card novel Ender's Game by, as Scalzi says, 3-to-2. (And that raises an interesting question: Why are the bestselling science fiction ...
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In J.K. Rowling, Lexicon and Oz , Orson Scott Card excoriates Rowling for her hypocrisy: Can you believe that J.K. Rowling is suing a small publisher because she claims their 10,000-copy edition of The Harry ...
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Orson Scott Card takes a few minutes to drill J.K. Rowling a new hole
Can you believe that J.K. Rowling is suing a small publisher because she claims their 10,000-copy edition of The Harry Potter Lexicon, a book about Rowling's hugely successful novel series, is just a ...
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Grand Theft Auto IV as a test of Christian conscience
... thing there's been to an actual "Giant's Drink". In the classic science-fiction novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, the child Ender Wiggin is given a computer simulation called "the Giant's Drink" as part of his battle training. Nobody is ...
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a lawsuit by J.K. Rowling against the author of a Harry Potter encyclopedia
... Rowling against the author of a Harry Potter encyclopedia , the Greensboro Rhino Times has an article by Orson Scott Card blasting J.K. Rowling for 'letting herself be talked into being outraged over a perfectly normal publishing activity .' Orson ...
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It was entirely undeserved, as science-fiction writer Orson Scott Card demonstrates in his evisceration of Rowling's argument .
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Orson Scott Card blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit
Wanker writes "In the wake of a lawsuit by J.K. Rowling against the author of a Harry Potter encyclopedia , the Greensboro Rhino Times has an article by Orson Scott Card blasting J.K. Rowling for 'letting ...
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Book Reviews: New space opera trilogy might be worth the trek
... in this anthology by authors M. John Harrison, Michael Moorcock, Mieville and more. "Keeper of Dreams," by Orson Scott Card (Tor; $27.95): The author of "Ender's Game" fame enjoys writing short stories, and it shows in this 22-tale collection, with ...
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... club meeting at 7 p.m. May 22 at the Highland Park Public Library, 31 N. Fifth Ave. The next selection is Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game.' Copies of the book can be picked up at the library front desk. In this fast-paced science-fiction classic, ...
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... himself to paperbacks from my bedside table in the middle of the night. A few nights ago, he shredded Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead . Before that, he shredded a paperback my wife was reading, and I couldn't even make out the title from the ...
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Orson Scott Card's Ender Comics
By Laura Hudson -- Publishers Weekly, 4/22/2008 10:25:00 AM Marvel Comics and renowned science fiction writer Orson Scott Card announced at last weekend's New York Comics Convention that the comic book ...
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Petersen walks off 'Ender's Game'
... looking for someone else to helm the production, which starts shooting next year. The movie is based on the Orson Scott Card novel about a child prodigy recruited to help fight an insectoid alien race known as 'buggers'. More More on this story from ...
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Petersen Out of "Ender's Game"
Wolfgang Petersen is no longer attached to direct "Ender's Game", according to io9.com . An adaptation of Orson Scott Card's acclaimed sci-fi novel about a child super soldier who plays a long simulation of ...
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