Things Affecting Orson Scott Card's Life

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There are many things in Orson Scott Card’s life that has affected Ender’s Game. Those things affected our lives in the process, by changing the story. Orson Scott Card thought of Ender’s Game as a concept when he was 16, and it stuck to the back of his mind until he wrote it. He first wrote it as a short story. The short story won the 1977 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer. One of the biggest things that affected Card was Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. The trilogy affected Card in a positive way, by showing you can overcome anything by working together, and improving yourself. That trilogy made Card want to write stories that would affect other people’s lives in a positive way. Another thing that affected his writing was that