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Short story by Orson Scott Card

"The Originist"
Short story by Orson Scott Card
Country	United States
Language	English
Publication
Published in	Foundation's Friends
Publisher	Tor Books
Media type	Print (hardcover & paperback)
Publication date	1989
Series	Foundation series

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"The Originist" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. First published in the short story collection Foundation's Friends (1989), it also appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. This story is set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe. It was voted 8th in the category Best Novella at the 1990 Locus Awards.

Plot summary

The events in "The Originist" take place just after the first part of Foundation and deal with Hari Seldon's establishment of the Second Foundation.

Reception

David Langford who commented briefly on the anthology Foundation's Friends, praised Orson Scott Card's work as the best story in the anthology and "the best Foundation/Empire story ever written". Similar sentiment was expressed by the reviewer for asimovreviews.net.

References

Martin Harry Greenberg; Isaac Asimov (1990). Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov. Tom Doherty Associates. ISBN 978-0-8125-0980-9.
"Locus Awards 1990". Science Fiction Awards Database. Retrieved November 8, 2024.
Orson Scott Card (30 November 2009). Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card. Tom Doherty Associates. ISBN 978-1-4299-6615-3.
Langford, David (2002-10-01). Complete Critical Assembly: The Collected White Dwarf (And Gm, and Gmi) Sf Review Columns. Wildside Press LLC. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-58715-330-3.
"Foundation's Friends: In Honor of Isaac Asimov". www.asimovreviews.net. Retrieved 2022-11-27.

v t e Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
Asimov writings	Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation Foundation's Edge Foundation and Earth Prelude to Foundation Forward the Foundation
Others' writings	Foundation's Fear Foundation and Chaos Foundation's Triumph Foundation's Friends Psychohistorical Crisis The Originist
Other media	Radio programme TV series
Foundation universe	Characters Cleon Demerzel Gaal Dornick Salvor Hardin Hober Mallow The Mule R. Daneel Olivaw Bel Riose Hari Seldon Encyclopedia Galactica Psychohistory
Preceded by: The Robot series and The Empire series

v t e Maps in a Mirror by Orson Scott Card
Book 1:	Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory Quietus Deep Breathing Exercises Fat Farm Closing the Timelid Freeway Games A Sepulchre of Songs Prior Restraint The Changed Man and the King of Words Memories of My Head Lost Boys
Book 2:	A Thousand Deaths Clap Hands and Sing Dogwalker But We Try Not to Act Like It I Put My Blue Genes On In the Doghouse (short story) The Originist
Book 3:	Unaccompanied Sonata A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon The Porcelain Salamander Middle Woman The Bully and the Beast The Princess and the Bear Sandmagic The Best Day A Plague of Butterflies The Monkeys Thought 'Twas All in Fun
Book 4:	Mortal Gods Saving Grace Eye for Eye St. Amy's Tale Kingsmeat Holy
Book 5:	Ender's Game Mikal's Songbird Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow Malpractice Follower Hitching Damn Fine Novel Billy's Box The Best Family Home Evening Ever Bicicleta I Think Mom and Dad Are Going Crazy, Jerry Gert Fram

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