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Orson Scott Card ( born ___MASK49___ 24 , 1951 ) is an American novelist , critic , public ___MASK97___ , essayist and columnist . He writes in several genres but is known best for science ___MASK51___ . His novel " Ender ' s Game " ( 1985 ) and its sequel " Speaker for the Dead " ( 1986 ) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards , making Card the only author to win both science ___MASK51___ ' s top U . S . prizes in consecutive years . A feature film adaptation of " Ender ' s Game ", which Card co - produced , was released in late October 2013 in Europe and on November 1 , 2013 , in North America . Ender ' s ___MASK84___ is a 1985 ___MASK99___ science ___MASK51___ novel by American author Orson Scott Card . Set in Earth ' s future , the novel presents an imperiled mankind after two conflicts with the " buggers ", an insectoid alien ___MASK78___ . In preparation for an anticipated third invasion , children , including the novel ' s protagonist , Ender Wiggin , are trained from a very young ___MASK25___ through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity , where Ender ' s tactical genius is revealed . The ___MASK2___ Awards annually recognize the best works of science ___MASK51___ or fantasy published in the United States during the previous year . The awards are organized and awarded by the Science ___MASK51___ and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ), a nonprofit association of professional science ___MASK51___ and fantasy writers . They were first given in 1966 at a ___MASK9___ created for the awards , and are given in four categories for different lengths of literary works . A fifth category for film and television episode scripts was given 1974  78 and 2000  09 . The rules governing the ___MASK2___ Awards have changed several times during the awards ' history , most recently in 2010 . Invasive Procedures ( 2007 ) is a medical thriller by Orson Scott Card and screenwriter Aaron Johnston . This ___MASK10___ was based on the short story `` Malpractice '' by Card , which first appeared in Analog in 1977 . ___MASK97___ for the Dead is a 1986 science ___MASK51___ novel by Orson Scott Card and an indirect sequel to the novel " Ender ' s Game ". The ___MASK85___ takes place around the year 5270 , some 3 , 000 years after the events in " Ender ' s Game ". However , because of relativistic space travel , Ender himself is only about 35 years old . ___MASK47___ ___MASK51___ ( often shortened to SF , sci - fi or scifi ) is a genre of speculative ___MASK51___ , typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology , space travel , time travel , faster than light travel , parallel universes , and extraterrestrial life . ___MASK47___ ___MASK51___ often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations , and has been called a " literature of ideas ." It usually avoids the supernatural , and unlike the related genre of fantasy , historically science ___MASK51___ stories were intended to have a grounding in science - based fact or theory at the time the story was created , but this connection is now limited to hard science ___MASK51___ .