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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Pan, Dell Pub. Co., Denoël
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440168973
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Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. 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 fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
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