Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American author who is one of the most acclaimed writers in science fiction. He is the only author to have won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel in consecutive years, for Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. Alvin Journeyman is part of his Alvin Maker series — an alternate history fantasy set in a frontier America where folk magic is real. Card's fiction is characterised by its inventive worldbuilding, its moral complexity, and its exploration of what it means to be human. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers imaginative, thought-provoking science fiction and fantasy — stories that explore the deepest questions about humanity with inventiveness and moral seriousness.