Capitol (short story collection)

Capitol

First edition
Author	Orson Scott Card
Cover artist	Vicente Segrelles
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Worthing series
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Ace Books
Publication date	1979
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	278 pp
ISBN	0-441-09136-9
OCLC	11730353

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"

Related works[]

• Hot Sleep
• The Worthing Chronicle
• The Worthing Saga

See also[]

• List of works by Orson Scott Card
• Orson Scott Card

External links[]

• Publication information for Capitol available from Card’s website

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