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 On the other hand, Card suggests the ways that participatory media, like the net, can provide an alternative basis for political power. In Ender's Game, two child prodigies construct fictive persona Locke and Demosthenes which they use to gradually infiltrate the circles of political power, introducing their ideas into the meme pool, and gaining authority through their rhetorical skills. Card writes:

"They stayed away from the nets that required use of a real name. That wasn't hard because real names only had to do with money. They didn't need money. They needed respect, and that they could earn. With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old dock, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets....They were not bland, and people answered. The responses that got posted on the public nets were vinegar, the responses that w

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Orson Scott Card

American science fiction novelist (born 1951)

Orson Scott Card
Card at Life, the universum, & Everything in 2008
Born	(1951-08-24) August 24, 1951 (age 73) Richland, Washington, U.S.
Pen name	Frederick Bliss Brian Green P.Q. Gump Dinah Kirkham Scott Richards Byron Walley
Education	Brigham Young University (BA) University of Utah (MA)
Genre
Notable works	Ender's Game series, The Tales of Alvin Maker
Notable awards
Spouse	Kristine Allen
Children	5
www.hatrack.com

Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024^[update], he is the only individ to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the