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  Collected Cards

  The Almost Complete Short Fiction

  Orson Scott Card

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  Title Page

  About Orson Scott Card

  Bibliography: Novels

  Bibliography: Magazine-published Novels

  Bibliography: Chapbooks

  Bibliography: Collections

  Bibliography: Omnibus

  Bibliography: Nonfiction

  Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological

  Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical

  Fiction Series

  1977

  Ender’s Game

  Bicicleta

  Malpractice

  1978

  The Best Family Home Evening Ever

  Billy’s Box

  Follower

  Kingsmeat

  Happy Head

  Mikal’s Songbird

  I Put My Blue Genes On

  Lifeloop

  Killing Children

  In the Dog House

  A Thousand Deaths

  1979

  A Sleep and a Forgetting

  Skipping Stones

  Burning

  And What Will We Do Tomorrow?

  When No One Remembers His Name, Does God Retire?

  The Stars that Blink

  Breaking the Game

  Mortal Gods

  Second Chance

  Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory

  Unaccompanied Sonata

  The Monkeys Thought ’Twas All in Fun

  Deep-Breathing Exercises

  But We Try Not to Act Like It

  Quietus

  Adagio and Benediction

  Songhouse

  Freeway Games

  The Bully and the Beast

  Closing the Timelid

  Sandmagic

  1980

  Tin Men

  Tinker

  Fat Farm

  A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon

  The Princess and the Bear

  Holy

  Hart’s Hope

  St Amy’s Tale

  1981

  The Porcelain Salamander

  A Sepulcher of Songs

  A Plague of Butterflies

  From a Spirit to the One Possessed

  1982

  Clap Hands and Sing

  The Changed Man and the King of Words

  1985

  The Fringe

  1986

  Salvage

  Hatrack River

  Prior Restraint

  1987

  America

  Eye for Eye

  Runaway

  Carthage City

  Saving Grace

  West

  1988

  Dowser

  1989

  Pageant Wagon

  Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow

  The Originist

  Damn Fine Novel

  Lost Boys

  Dogwalker

  1990

  Memories of My Head

  The Best Day

  Hitching

  I Think Mom and Dad Are Going Crazy, Jerry

  Gert Farm

  Middle Woman

  1991

  Gloriously Bright

  Feed the Baby of Love

  1992

  Atlantis

  1995

  Investment Counselor

  1998

  Gooses

  Grinning Man

  1999

  Missed

  Heal Thyself

  Vessel

  2000

  Waterbaby

  The Elephants of Poznan

  Angles

  2002

  50 WPM

  The Polish Boy

  2003

  In the Dragon’s House

  Inventing Lovers on the Phone

  Teacher’s Pest

  Robota

  The Yazoo Queen

  2004

  Keeper of Lost Dreams

  2005

  Homeless in Hell

  Mazer in Prison

  2006

  The Yazoo Queen

  Pretty Boy: The Story of Bonzo Madrid

  Space Boy

  Cheater

  2007

  A Young Man with Prospects

  Stonefather

  The Gold Bug

  Ender’s Stocking

  A War of Gifts

  Jamaica

  2008

  Ender’s Homecoming

  Geriatric Ward

  Christmas at Helaman’s House

  Neighbors

  God Plays Fair Once Too Often

  Worthy to Be One of Us

  Ender in Flight

  Hamlet’s Father

  2009

  The Man in the Tree

  WEST

  Salvage

  The Fringe

  Pageant Wagon

  2010

  America

  Eye For Eye (Part 1)

  Eye For Eye (Part 2)

  Expendables

  Eye For Eye (Part 3)

  Wise Men

  2011

  Shadows in Flight (Part 1)

  Shadows in Flight (Part 2)

  2012

  Carousel

  An excerpt from Ruins

  Flying Children (Part 1)

  Flying Children (Part 2)

  2013

  Off to See the Emperor

  2014

  A Plague of Butterflies

  Alvin and the Apple Tree

  Visitors, Chapter 1

  2015

  Breeding True

  Naysayers

  2016

  The War of Gifts

  2017

  Renegat

  2018

  A Town Divided by Christmas

  2019

  Messenger

  Orson Scott Card was born on August 24, 1951, in Richland, Washington. He is the son of Peggy Jane (née Park) and Willard Richards Card, and is the third of six children and the older brother of composer and arranger Arlen Card. Card’s family has Mormon pioneer heritage. His direct ancestors include Brigham Young, Charles Ora Card, Zina P. Young Card, Zina Young Card Brown and Hugh B. Brown.

  When Card was one month old, his family moved to San Mateo, California, so Willard Card could begin a sign-painting business. When he was three years old, the family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, so his father could finish his bachelor’s degree. The family moved to Santa Clara, California, when Card was six; they stayed there for seven years while his father completed his master’s degree and worked as a professor at San Jose State College. In school, Card took classes for gifted students but he was more interested in studying music—he played clarinet and French horn. He read widely, including historical fiction, nonfiction, and literary classics. At age ten, he wrote his first story, which was about an intelligent child who is assaulted by bullies and sustains brain damage. Ender’s confrontation with Stilson in Ender’s Game is based on this story.

  In 1964, Card and his family moved to Mesa, Arizona, where he participated in mock debates in junior high school. In 1967, the family moved to Orem, Utah, where his father worked at Brigham Young University (BYU). Card attended BYU’s laboratory school, where he took both high school and early college-level classes before graduating in one year. When beginning his college studies he intended to major in anthropology, but after becoming increasingly more interested in theater, he began script-writing, writing ten original plays and rewriting other students’ plays. Most of his plays were based on Mormon history and scriptures; one was science fiction. By watching the body language of an audience, he could tell when an audience was interested in his scripts. During his studies as a theater major, he began doctoring scripts, adapting fiction for reader’s theater production, and writing one-act and full-length plays, several of which were produced by faculty directors at BYU. Charles W. Whitman, Card’s play-writing professor, encouraged his students to write plays with LDS themes. Card studied poetry with Clinton F. Larson at BYU. He also wrote short stories, which were later published together in The Worthing Saga.

  Before graduating, Card served as a missionary for the LDS Church in Brazil starting in 1971. During his mission, he wrote a play called Stone Tables. He returned from his mission in 1973 and graduated from BYU in 1975, receiving a bachelor’s degree with distinction in theater. After graduation, he started the Utah Valley Repertory Theatre Company, which for two summers produced plays at “the Castle”, a Depression-era outdoor amphitheater. After going into debt with the community theatre’s expenses, Card took part-time employment as a proofreader at BYU Press, moving on to full-time employment as a copy editor. In 1981, Card completed his master’s degree in English at the University of Utah where he studied with François Camoin and Norman Council. He began a doctoral program at the University of Notre Dame but dropped out to pursue his more lucrative writing projects.

  In 1977, Card married Kristine Allen, who is the daughter of Mormon historian James B. Allen. The two met when Kristine was in the chorus of a roadshow Card directed before his mission. They courted after Card’s mission, and Card
was impressed with her intellectual rigor. After their marriage they had five children; their son Charles had cerebral palsy and died aged 17; their daughter Erin died the day she was born. Card’s short story, Lost Boys, is highly autobiographical, but contains the death of a fictional child. One of Card’s workshop readers, Karen Fowler, said that Card had pretended to experience the grief of a parent who has lost a child. In response, Card realized that the story expressed his grief and difficulty in accepting Charles’s disability. Card stated that he rarely discusses Charles and Erin because his grief has not faded over time. Card and his wife live in Greensboro, North Carolina; their daughter Emily, along with two other writers, adapted Card’s short stories Clap Hands and Sing, Lifeloop, and A Sepulchre of Songs for the stage in Posing as People. Card suffered a mild stroke on January 1, 2011, and made a full recovery.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  NOVELS

  A Planet Called Treason (1979)

  Hot Sleep: The Worthing Chronicle (1979)

  Songmaster (1980)

  Hart’s Hope (1983)

  The Worthing Chronicle (1983)

  A Woman of Destiny (1984)

  Ender’s Game (1985)

  Speaker for the Dead (1986)

  Seventh Son (1987)

  Wyrms (1987)

  Red Prophet (1988)

  Saints (1988)

  Treason (1988)

  The Abyss (1989)

  Prentice Alvin (1989)

  Xenocide (1991)

  Lost Boys (1992)

  The Memory of Earth (1992)

  The Call of Earth (1993)

  Lovelock (1994)

  The Ships of Earth (1994)

  Alvin Journeyman (1995)

  Earthfall (1995)

  Earthborn (1995)

  Children of the Mind (1996)

  The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

  Treasure Box (1996)

  Stone Tables (1997)

  Heartfire (1998)

  Homebody (1998)

  Enchantment (1999)

  Ender’s Shadow (1999)

  Magic Mirror (1999)

  Sarah (2000)

  Rebekah (2001)

  Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)

  Shadow Puppets (2002)

  The Crystal City (2003)

  Rachel & Leah (2004)

  Magic Street (2005)

  Shadow of the Giant (2005)

  Empire (2006)

  Invasive Procedures (2007)

  Ender in Exile (2008)

  Zanna’s Gift (2008)

  Hidden Empire (2009)

  The Lost Gate (2010)

  Pathfinder (2010)

  Shadows in Flight (2012)

  Earth Unaware (2012)

  Ruins (2012)

  Earth Afire (2013)

  The Gate Thief (2013)

  Earth Awakens (2014)

  Visitors (2014)

  Gatefather (2015)

  The Swarm (2016)

  Children of the Fleet (2017)

  The Hive (2019)

  Lost and Found (2019)

  Duplex (2021)

  The Last Shadow (2021)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  MAGAZINE-PUBLISHED NOVELS

  Gloriously Bright, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1991

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  CHAPBOOKS

  Unaccompanied Sonata (1992)

  Robota (2003)

  with Doug Chiang Eye for Eye (2006)

  Pretty Boy (2007)

  Space Boy (2007)

  A War of Gifts (2007)

  Stonefather (2008)

  Hamlet’s Father (2011)

  A Town Divided by Christmas (2018)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  COLLECTIONS

  Capitol (1979)

  Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories (1981)

  Cardography (1987)

  The Folk of the Fringe (1989)

  Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1990)

  The Changed Man (1992)

  Flux (1992)

  Cruel Miracles (1992)

  Maps in a Mirror: Volume One: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1992)

  Maps in a Mirror: Volume Two: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1992)

  Monkey Sonatas (1993)

  The Elephants of Posnan and other stories (2001)

  Doorways (2002)

  First Meetings: Three Stories from the Enderverse (2002)

  First Meetings: In the Enderverse (2003)

  First Meetings in Ender’s Universe (2004)

  Keeper of Dreams (2008)

  Ender’s Way: Tales from the World of Andrew Wiggin (2021)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  OMNIBUS

  Ender’s War (1986)

  Alvin Wandering (1998)

  Hatrack River (1989)

  The Worthing Saga (1990)

  Homecoming: Harmony (1994)

  Homecoming: Earth (1995)

  Tales of Alvin Maker [box set] (1995)

  Beyond Ender’s Game (2002)

  Ender’s Saga (2003)

  The Ender Quartet [box set] (2008)

  The Ender’s Shadow Series box set (2008)

  The Shadow Saga (2012)

  Ender’s Game/Ender’s Shadow (2013)

  Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead (2013)

  Ender’s Game/Ender’s Shadow/Shadow of the Hegemon (2013)

  Ender’s Game/Ender in Exile/Speak for the Dead (2013)

  Pathfinder & Ruins (2013)

  Pathfinder Trilogy (2014)

  The First Formic War (2016)

  The Memory of Earth and The Call of Earth (2016)

  Seventh Son and Red Prophet (2016)

  Empire/Hidden Empire (2017)

  Prentice Alvin and Alvin Journeyman (2017)

  The Tales of Alvin Maker (2018)

  The Complete Homecoming Saga (2019)

  Ender Quintet #1 (2021)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  NONFICTION

  Characters & Viewpoint (1988)

  How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (1990)

  How to Write a Million: The Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Author (1995)

  How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy (2001)

  Getting Lost: Survival, Baggage, and Starting Over in J. J. Abrams’ Lost (2006)

  Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction: How to Create Out-of-This-World Novels and Short Stories (2013)

  The Writer’s Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010)

  Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender’s Game (2013)

  SHORT FICTION BIBLIOGRAPHY

  CHRONOLOGICAL

  1977

  Ender’s Game, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1977

  Bicicleta, The Friend, October 1977

  Malpractice, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1977

  1978

  The Best Family Home Evening Ever, The Friend, January 1978

  Billy’s Box, The Friend, February 1978

  Follower, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 1978

  Kingsmeat, Analog Yearbook, March 1978

  Happy Head, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 1978

  Mikal’s Songbird, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1978

  I Put My Blue Genes On, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1978

  Lifeloop, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 1978

  Killing Children, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1978

  In the Doghouse, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, December 1978

  A Thousand Deaths, Omni, December 1978

  1979

  A Sleep and a Forgetting, Capitol: The Worthing Chronicle, January 1979

  Skipping Stones, Capitol: The Worthing Chronicle, January 1979

  Burning, Capitol: The Worthing Chronicle, January 1979

  And What Will We Do Tomorrow?, Capitol: The Worthing Chronicle, January 1979

  When No One Remembers His Name, Does God Retire?, Capitol: The Worthing Chronicle, January 1979

  The Stars that Blink, Capitol: The Worthing Chronicle, January 1979

  Breaking the Game, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1979

  Mortal Gods, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1979

  Second Chance, Destinies, January/February, January 1979

  Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory, Chrysalis 4, February 1979

  Unaccompanied Sonata, Omni, March 1979

  The Monkeys Thought ’Twas All in Fun, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1979

  Deep-Breathing Exercises, Omni, July 1979

  But We Try Not to Act Like It, Destinies, August/September, August 1979

  Quietus, Omni, August 1979

  Adagio and Benediction, Chrysalis 5, September 1979

  Songhouse, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1979

  Freeway Games, Gallery, November 1979

  The Bully and the Beast, Other Worlds 1, December 1979