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

Orson Scott Card

Nov 2009 · Maps in a Mirror Book 2 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

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.

"One of the genre's most convincing storytellers. An important volume."--Library Journal


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Ratings and reviews

Okay, so the Mormon stories at the end were very weird... But this is a fantastic read for any aspiring writer. Card has some wonderful little blurbs about writing and fiction and world building and story-telling that are incredibly enlightening - not to mention most of the short stories are incredibly interesting in and of themselves! It's especially neat to see Ender's Game as an original short story before it became the novel. All in all, a great read for any fans of Card.

Pretty good collection of stories here. More good then dull. Particular standouts being Fat Farm, Memories of my Head, and A Thousand Deaths.

About 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.