Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology [Paperback]

Phobos Books launches its first title, Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology, edited by Orson Scott Card and former Starlog managing editor Keith Olexa. Lawrence Kraus (The Physics of Star Trek, etc.) supplies a foreword. While the contributors are all unknowns, selected in the First Annual Phobos Fiction Contest, the big names associated with this project should ensure plenty of attention within the SF world.
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A collection of 12 short stories edited by world-famous best-selling author Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), and Keith Olexa, former managing editor of Starlog, the preeminent Science Fiction news magazine.

"Science Fiction, of all genres of storytelling, is the one that hungers most for new writers. These stories stood out from an array of many, and are offered to you now because they meant something to the judges, and we think they'll feel important, entertaining, truthful to you." Orson Scott Card

"Those readers fortunate enough to get their hands on this collection of stories will not be disappointed…These stories will immerse you in the infinite possibilities of existence" Lawrence Krauss

Nobody had ever won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel two years in a row, until Orson Scott Card received them both for Ender’s Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead. Card continued the evolving saga of Ender Wiggin in Xenocide and Children of the Mind, and returned to the events of Ender’s Game through the perspective of one of Ender’s fellow battle school cadets, Bean, in a novel published by TOR in 1999 entitled Ender’s Shadow.

The Ender series has reached over 20 million readers worldwide, and the original novel is currently being developed as a movie by Lynn Hendee and Robert Chartoff, co-producer of The Right Stuff, Raging Bull and the Rocky series, with Card writing the screenplay. These books comprise only the beginning of this prolific author’s bibliography.

Card has broken new ground with each of his major works. "The Homecoming Saga" (the novels The Memory of Earth , The Call of Earth, The Ships of Earth, Earthfall and Earthborn) was a retelling of ancient scripture as science fiction. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus is the sine qua non of alternative history novels, in which time travelers return from the future to keep Columbus from discovering America. Card’s innovative "American Fantasy" series (The Tales of Alvin Maker) reexamines American history in a magical version of the Western frontier.

Card has written two books on writing, Character and Viewpoint and How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, the latter of which won a Hugo Award in 1991. He has taught writing courses at several universities, including a novel-writing course at Pepperdine, and workshops at Antioch, Clarion, Clarion West, and the Cape Cod Writers Workshop. Card says he enjoys teaching dedicated writers because he believes they will contribute to the overall quality of literature available to avid readers like him. "The writers I like to help," he explains, "are the ones who have the initiative to write and the confidence to mail things off to publishers. At that point, the reason I like to help them is simple: I love to read good stories, and there aren’t enough of them. If I can help increase the quantity of good storytellers in the world then my odds of finding more good stories to read, and of living in a community where good stories are widely read, vastly improves."

Card received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). He currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with his wife Kristine, and their five children: Geoffrey, Emily, Charles, Zina Margaret, and Erin Louisa.