title: Characters & Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing)
author:  Orson Scott Card 
description: About the Author<br /><br />Orson Scott Card is an award-winning science fiction novelist whose credits include the Hugo Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. His novels include Ender's Game, Shadow of Hegemon, and Speaker for the Dead, among others.
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  ## THE FINEST SHORT FICTION OF A REMARKABLE DECADE AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF
  A BRILLIANTLY GIFTED WRITER
  
  
  
  
  
  The 1980s was one of the most remarkable decades for short stories in the
  entire history of science fiction. A talented new generation of writers
  transformed the field by combining high literary quality with highly
  entertaining storytelling.
  
  
  In Future on Fire, award-winning author and critic Orson Scott Card presents a
  selection of incandescent visions from fifteen of the decade’s most gifted
  writers:
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Pat Cadigan
  
  
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  
  
  Lucius Shepard
  
  
  
  
  
  Felix C. Gotschalk
  
  
  Pat Murphy
  
  
  Bruce Sterling
  
  
  
  
  
  William Gibson
  
  
  Susan Palwick
  
  
  Michael Swanwick
  
  
  
  
  
  Gregg Keizer
  
  
  Rachel Pollack
  
  
  Wayne Wightman
  
  
  
  
  
  James Patrick Kelly
  
  
  Kim Stanley Robinson
  
  
  Connie Willis
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  
  
  These are not “safe” stories. Card has deliberately chosen stories that
  provoke and infuriate; that challenge our most che