query: genre dragons of darkness
supports: Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and an indirect sequel to the novel "Ender's Game". The book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in "Ender's Game". However, because of relativistic space travel, Ender himself is only about 35 years old. Science fiction (often shortened to SF, sci-fi or scifi) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas." It usually avoids the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have a grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created, but this connection is now limited to hard science fiction. Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled mankind after two conflicts with the "buggers", an insectoid alien species. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are trained from a very young age through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed. Cardography (1987) is a short story collection by Orson Scott Card. It contains five stories and an introduction by David Hartwell. All five of these stories were later published in "Maps in a Mirror "Middle Woman" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collections "Cardography" and "Maps in a Mirror". Card originally published this in an anthology he was editing called "Dragons of Darkness" under the name Byron Walley. Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel "Ender's Game" (1985) and its sequel "Speaker for the Dead" (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of "Ender's Game", which Card co-produced, was released in late October 2013 in Europe and on November 1, 2013, in North America. The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards by the science fiction and fantasy magazine "Locus", a monthly based in Oakland, California, United States. The award winners are selected by poll of magazine readers. "A Plague of Butterflies" is a short story by American writer Orson Scott Card. It was originally published in an anthology, edited by Card, entitled "Dragons of Darkness". His short story "Middle Woman" appeared in the same book under the pseudonym Byron Walley. "A Plague of Butterflies" was later reprinted in his short story collection "Maps in a Mirror". Dragons of Darkness ( 1981 ) is an anthology edited by Orson Scott Card . It contains fifteen stories , two of which were written by Card himself . The two stories by Card are `` Middle Woman '' and `` A Plague of Butterflies '' . Both of them were later published in Card 's collection Maps in a Mirror . The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States during the previous year. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. They were first given in 1966 at a ceremony created for the awards, and are given in four categories for different lengths of literary works. A fifth category for film and television episode scripts was given 197478 and 200009. The rules governing the Nebula Awards have changed several times during the awards' history, most recently in 2010. Maps in a Mirror (1990) is a collection of short stories by American writer Orson Scott Card. Like Card's novels, most of the stories have a science fiction or fantasy theme. Some of the stories, such as "Ender's Game", "Lost Boys", and "Mikal's Songbird" were later expanded into novels. Each of the smaller volumes that make up the larger collection as a whole are centered on a theme or genre. For instance, Volume 1, "The Changed Man", reprints several of Card's horror stories. The collection won the Locus Award in 1991.
candidates: anthology book essayist fantasy fiction game genre hard science fiction history horror literature magazine military military science fiction novel science short story speculative fiction travel
answer: fantasy