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Language English Pages 675 pp Dewey Decimal 813/.54 20 Country United States of America Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date 1990 ISBN 0-312-85047-6 Originally published 1990 OCLC 21759561 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Similar Orson Scott Card books, Ender Wiggin books, Science Fiction books |
Maps in a Mirror (1990) is a collection of short stories by American writer Orson Scott Card. Like Card's novels, most of the stories have a science fiction or fantasy theme. Some of the stories, such as "Ender's Game", "Lost Boys", and "Mikal's Songbird" were later expanded into novels. Each of the smaller volumes that make up the larger collection as a whole are centered on a theme or genre. For instance, Volume 1, The Changed Man, reprints several of Card's horror stories. The collection won the Locus Award in 1991.
Contents
Publication history
Most of the stories appearing in the book are reprints of stories which were first published in science fiction and fantasy periodicals.
The book has been published as a single large volume, as a two volume set and as a four volume set. However, only the single volume editions contain: “Book 5: Lost Songs, The Hidden Stories”.
Single volume
Two volume set
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Story list
The short stories in this book are:
Book 1 - The Changed Man: Tales of Dread
Book 2 - Flux: Tales of Human Futures
Book 3 - Monkey Sonatas: Fables and Fantasies
In the one-volume editions, this section is titled "Maps in a Mirror: Fables and Fantasies".