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Orson Scott Card è uno scrittore statunitense di fantascienza e fantasy.

Sposato e padre di cinque figli. Di fede mormone, chiesa per la quale è stato anche missionario in Brasile. Ha vissuto in California, in Arizona, e nello Utah. Vive ora a Greensboro nello stato della Carolina del Nord.

Ha scritto opere di numerosi generi, ma è conosciuto principalmente per i romanzi del ciclo di Ender ed in particolare per i primi due Il gioco di Ender e Il riscatto di Ender . Vincendo con entrambi questi romanzi sia il Premio Nebula sia il Premio Hugo, lo scrittore ha stabilito un primato ancora imbattuto.

È autore anche di alcune sceneggiature per fumetti pubblicati dalla Marvel Comics.. Nel 2013 scriverà alcune storie dell'antologia Adventures of Superman per la DC Comics. Causa il suo noto attivismo anti-gay quest'annuncio ha scatenato le proteste dei fan del supereroe e del mondo del fumetto. Ha collaborato alla realizzazione del videogioco The Secret of Monkey Island scrivendo gli insulti per i duelli e di The Dig scrivendo i dialoghi insieme a Sean Clark.

✵ 24. Agosto 1951
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“Zymas li lasciò scegliere liberamente, ma tutti e cinquecento lo seguirono verso Traffing, lasciandosi alle spalle gli attoniti abitanti del villaggio. Non disse loro chi intendeva mettere al posto del Re. Il sogno aveva detto Palicrovol, ma Zymas intendeva vedere personalmente l'uomo, prima di aiutarlo a ribellarsi. I sogni vengono quando uno ha gli occhi chiusi, ma Zymas agiva solo con gli occhi aperti”

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Origine: I giorni del cervo, p. 8

“Ah, Palicrovol, quando imparerai che la misericordia è buona quanto la persona a cui essa viene fatta? Hai risparmiato Asineth, che avrebbe dovuto morire; ora non risparmierai Orem Fianchi-Magri, chiamato Banningside, il cui buon cuore dovrebbe nascere centomila volte sulla terra. Sei come Asineth? Imparerai tutte le tue lezioni al contrario?”

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Origine: I giorni del cervo, p. 24

“Il suo amore per la teatralità lo indusse quasi a rispondere con qualche eroico epigramma; ma aveva appreso fin da giovane che la teatralità non sostituiva una sicura vittoria. Perciò le morse il cuore con i denti della sua mano sinistra, per abbatterla subito con un colpo magico. Anche se avesse resistito, sarebbe stata troppo scossa per combatterlo, dopo.”

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Origine: I giorni del cervo, pp. 30-31

“Donnola — disse la Regina Bella — tu sai ora come sono stata servita. Dimmi… è giusta la mia vendetta?
— Ti è stato fatto un torto — disse la Principessa dei Fiori.
— È giusta la mia vendetta?
— Sei giusta a vendicarti.
— Ma la mia vendetta è giusta? — Bella sorrise, come la benedizione di un santo.
— Solo se ti vendichi di coloro che ti hanno fatto del male, e solo se la tua vendetta è uguale al torto subito.
— Suvvia, ho sentito dire che posso contare su Donnola Bocca-di-Verità per sentire il vero. Te lo chiedo per la quarta volta… sono giusta?
— No — disse la Principessa dei Fiori.
— Bene — disse Bella.”

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Sono stata trattata ingiustamente, e a meno che la mia vendetta non sia mostruosamente ingiusta, non sarò soddisfatta. (p. 36-37)
I giorni del cervo

“Allora scappò dal droghiere, stringendo in mano le sue poche monete di rame. Ma paura o non paura, voleva essere sicuro; così si fermò poco lontano, a guardare: e proprio come aveva pensato, Glasin riuscì a far stare tutta la sua mercanzia nel carretto, a parte la roba marcia. E per proteggere del cibo marcio, Orem avrebbe dovuto aspettare tutto il giorno, senza essere pagato. Non c'era onore a Inwit, neanche un briciolo, e questo lo rese più timoroso che mai della punta del pugnale che gli era stata puntata contro la pancia. Un pugnale aveva solo una punta, ma un traditore colpisce da qualsiasi parte, dicevano, e solo adesso Orem capiva quanto fosse vero”

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Origine: I giorni del cervo, p. 69

Orson Scott Card: Frasi in inglese

“By the time Verily was sixteen, a sturdy and rather good-looking young man of some education and impeccable manners, he had become a thoroughgoing skeptic. If the dogmas about witchery could be so hopelessly wrong, how could any of the teachings of the ministers be relied upon? It left Verily Cooper at loose ends, intellectually speaking, for all his teachers spoke as if religion were the cornerstone of all other learning, and yet all of Verily’s actual studies led him to the conclusion that sciences founded upon religion were uncertain at best, utterly bogus at worst.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 9.

“As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 9.

“I interpreted all you did as weakness — but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“And he wanted a wife. He wanted to raise children. He wanted to prove that goodness wasn’t beaten into children, that fear was not the fount from which virtue flowed. He wanted to be able to gather his family in his arms and know that not one of them dreaded the sight of him, or felt the need to lie to him in order to have his love.”

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(Chapter reference needed).
The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995)

““I see Alvin with a son. That what he want most.”
“I see him with a woman,” said Rien. “That is what he miss the most.”
“I see him kneeling by a child’s grave,” said Dead Mary. “That is what he fears the most.””

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 16 “Labor” (p. 307).

“Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 13.

“Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“Slavery, that was a kind of alchemy for such White folk, or so they reckoned. They calculated a way of turning each bead of a Black man’s sweat into gold and each moan of despair from a Black woman’s throat into the sweet clear sound of a silver coin ringing on the money-changer’s table. There was buying and selling of souls in that place. Yet there was nary a one of them who understood the whole price they paid for owning other folk.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 1.

“You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 19.

“What is the White man? What does he do?
The White man is like a human being, but he crushes all other living things under his feet.
Then why, O Ta-Kumsaw, when I look into your heart, why is it that you do not wish to hurt the White man, that you do not wish to kill the White man?
The White man doesn’t know the evil that he does. The White man doesn’t feel the peace of the land, so how can he tell the little deaths he makes? I can’t blame the White man. But I can’t let him stay. So when I make him leave this land, I won’t hate him.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 2.

“A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

““Black with hate,” said Becca. “You are gathering your people with hate.”
“Can you imagine conducting a war with love?” asked Ta-Kumsaw.
“That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,” she said gently.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.

“This is Alvin Smith,” said Cooper. “He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 5.

“Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.

“Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

“It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“She don’t set no store to see a king. Her pa a king back in Africa, and they shoot him dead. Them Portuguese slavers show her what it mean to be a king—it mean you die quick like everybody, and spill blood red like everybody, and cry out loud in pain and scared—oh, fine to be a king, and fine to see one. Do them White folk believe this lie?”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 2.

“In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.”

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Quoted by Mary Robinette Kowal in " Precogs and Ray Guns Have No Place In True SciFi http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/09/science-fantasy.php".
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“Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

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