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Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well. For the many who are newly come to Card, here is chance to experience the wonder of a writer so versatile that he can handle everything from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction with equal ease and grace. The brilliant story-telling of the Alvin Maker books is no accident; the breathless excitement evoked by the Ender books is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience. In this enormous volume are forty-six stories, plus ten long, intensely personal essays, unique to this volume. In them the author reveals some of his reasons and motivations for writing, with a good deal of autobiography into the bargain.

Contents:

Introduction (Book 1: The Hanged Man, Tales of Dread) • essay by Orson Scott Card

Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory (1979) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

Quietus (1979) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Deep Breathing Exercises (1979) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Fat Farm (1980) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Closing the Timelid (1979) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Freeway Games (1979) / short story by Orson Scott Card

A Sepulchre of Songs (1981) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

Prior Restraint (1986) / short story by Orson Scott Card

The Changed Man and the King of Words (1982) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

Memories of My Head (1990) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Lost Boys (1989) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Afterword (Book 1: The Hanged Man, Tales of Dread) • essay by Orson Scott Card

Introduction (Book 2: Flux, Tales of Human Futures) • essay by Orson Scott Card

A Thousand Deaths [Tales of Capitol] (1978) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

Clap Hands and Sing (1982) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Dogwalker (1989) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

But We Try Not to Act Like It (1979) / short story by Orson Scott Card

I Put My Blue Genes On (1978) / short story by Orson Scott Card

In the Doghouse (1978) / short story by Orson Scott Card and Jay A. Parry

The Originist [Foundation] (1989) / novella by Orson Scott Card

Afterword (Book 2: Flux, Tales of Human Futures) • essay by Orson Scott Card

Introduction (Book 3: Maps in a Mirror, Fables and Fantasies) • essay by Orson Scott Card

Unaccompanied Sonata (1979) / short story by Orson Scott Card

A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon (1980) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

The Porcelain Salamander (1981) • short story by Orson Scott Card

Middle Woman (1981) / short story by Orson Scott Card

The Bully and the Beast (1979) / novella by Orson Scott Card

The Princess and the Bear (1980) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

Sandmagic [Mither Mages] (1979) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

The Best Day (1984) / short story by Orson Scott Card

A Plague of Butterflies (1981) / short story by Orson Scott Card

The Monkeys Thought 'Twas All in Fun (1979) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

Afterword (Book 3: Maps in a Mirror, Fables and Fantasies) • essay by Orson Scott Card

Introduction (Book 4: Cruel Miracles, Tales of Death, Hope, and Holiness) • essay by Orson Scott Card

Mortal Gods (1979) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Saving Grace (1987) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Eye for Eye (1987) / novella by Orson Scott Card

St. Amy's Tale (1980) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

Kingsmeat (1978) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Holy (1980) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

Afterword (Book 4: Cruel Miracles, Tales of Death, Hope, and Holiness) • essay by Orson Scott Card

Introduction (Book 5: Lost Songs, The Hidden Stories) • essay by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game [Ender Wiggin] (1977) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

Mikal's Songbird (1978) / novelette by Orson Scott Card

Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow [The Alvin Maker Saga] (1989) • poem by Orson Scott Card

Malpractice (1977) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Follower (1978) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Hitching (1978) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Damn Fine Novel (1989) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Billy's Box (1978) / short story by Orson Scott Card

The Best Family Home Evening Ever (1978) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Bicicleta (1977) / short story by Orson Scott Card

I Think Mom and Dad Are Going Crazy, Jerry (1979) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Gert Fram (1977) / short story by Orson Scott Card

Afterword (Book 5: Lost Songs, The Hidden Stories) • essay by Orson Scott Card

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 675
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780765308405
  • Genres
  • fantasy, fiction, anthologies, horror, mystery, collections
  • Release date
  • 2004