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1979 book by Orson Scott Card
Capitol
First edition
AuthorOrson Scott Card
Cover artistVicente Segrelles
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Worthing series
GenreScience fiction
PublisherAce Books
Publication date1979
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages278 pp
ISBN0-441-09136-9
OCLC11730353

Capitol (1979) was Orson Scott Card's second published book, and first foray into science fiction. This collection of eleven short stories set in the Worthing series is no longer in print. However six of the stories have been reprinted in The Worthing Saga (1990) and one of them in Maps in a Mirror (1990).

Contents

The short stories in this book are:

  • "A Sleep and a Forgetting"
  • "A Thousand Deaths" - Reprinted in Maps in a Mirror
  • "Skipping Stones" - Reprinted in The Worthing Saga
  • "Second Chance" - Reprinted in The Worthing Saga
  • "Breaking the Game" - Reprinted in The Worthing Saga
  • "Lifeloop" - Reprinted in The Worthing Saga
  • "Burning"
  • "And What Will We Do Tomorrow?" - Reprinted in The Worthing Saga
  • "Killing Children" - Reprinted in The Worthing Saga
  • "When No One Remembers His Name, Does God Retire?"
  • "The Stars That Blink"

See also

External links

Works by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game series
Books
Ender Series
Shadow Saga
Formic Wars
Short stories
Other media
Characters
The Tales of Alvin Maker
Books
Other media
The Worthing series
Books
Other works
Homecoming Saga
Women of Genesis
Mithermages series
Mayflower series
The Empire duet
The Pathfinder series
Standalone novels
Story collections
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