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Highlights
- Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990.
- About the Author: Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead.
- 675 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Science Fiction
- Series Name: Maps in a Mirror
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About the Book
Enhanced with essays and memoirs, this extraordinary collection brings together all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written prior to 1990--46 stories in all.Book Synopsis
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 hundreds of thousands 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. Twelve of these stories, which have been superceded by later versions, rarely appear elsewhere. Included here are the story "Mikal's Songbird", which grew into the novel Songmaster; the novella-length "Ender's Game", which became the award-winning novel of the same name; and the epic poem "Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow", which was the seed for Card's acclaimed Tales of Alvin Maker series. "One of the genre's most convincing storytellers. An important volume."--Library JournalAbout the Author
Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x 2.1 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.65 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 675
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Science Fiction
Series Title: Maps in a Mirror
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Theme: Collections & Anthologies
Format: Paperback
Author: Orson Scott Card
Language: English
Street Date: January 1, 2004
TCIN: 90812499
UPC: 9780765308405
Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-8981
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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