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Category Archives: Card
Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
While I was home over winter break, I found myself in the mood to read something new. A few years ago my family moved houses, and since I was leaving for college soon after I only kept books that I really loved—but thus had already read. So, the pickings on my bookshelf were pretty slim. […] Continue reading
Posted in Archetypes, Authors, Card, children, Ender's Game, Fiction, Films, Intelligence, interstellar, Lois Lowry, Nancy Kress, On Writing, Orson Scott Card, Science Fiction, SF, SF love, Stephen King, The Giver, The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart, Under the Dome, Writer's craft, writing, writing sci-fi
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I’m sorry, what was your name again?
In my ten-something years as an avid reader and token bookworm, I had never had this experience before. On the first day of class, I came prepared with an annotated copy of “Nightfall” by Isaac Asimov and the seemingly impossible goal of not making a fool of myself in front of other College Scholars. Everything seemed […]
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Posted in Asimov, Card, Fiction, names, Science Fiction, stock characters, Writer's craft, writing
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