It has been announced that Orson Scott Card, the writer of legendary sci-fi novels Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead, will be working with developer Red 5 Studios on their upcoming MMO shooter Firefall. "I think the game is a great one," Card said. "I was delighted to be a part of it."

Featured in the latest Firefall developer diary, Card continues to explain "when they started talking to me about the story line of Firefall, when I looked at the material they had already developed, is that it is really fascinating to be dealing with essentially a post apocalyptic, in fact post double-apocalyptic world, in which it's not a bunch of people obsessing over water or gasoline or whatever.

"It's not Mad Max, it's not 'the world ended', well the world did end, but we're maintaining our high technology - we're moving forward with it. We're still civilised human beings, we just happen to have a whole bunch of extremely dangerous monsters coming at us that need shooting."

Card will be working with Red 5 developing the entire back story of Firefall, while he will also be working with his daughter, Emily Card, on creating a free Firefall Manga. UDON Entertainment have been charged with taking the Manga they write and bringing it to life with their brilliant art.