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Capitol (short story collection)

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

ISBN
  
0-441-09136-9

Originally published
  
January 1979

Series
  
The Worthing series

Publisher
  
Ace Books

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Publication date
  
1979

Pages
  
278 pp

OCLC
  
11730353

Author
  
Orson Scott Card

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Orson Scott Card books, The Worthing series books, Science Fiction books

Capitol (1979) was Orson Scott Card's second published book. 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

Story list

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"

    • Editions

  • ISBN 0-441-09136-9 Ace Books, paperback, Jan 1979
  • ISBN 0-89437-072-3 Baronet Pub., paperback, Nov 1979
  • ISBN 0-7088-8064-9 Orbit Books, paperback, Apr 1980
  • Hot Sleep
  • The Worthing Chronicle
  • The Worthing Saga

    • References

    Capitol (short story collection) Wikipedia
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