The Originist

"The Originist"
Short story by Orson Scott Card
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publication
Published inFoundation's Friends
PublisherTor Books
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback)
Publication date1989
SeriesFoundation series
Short story collection

"The Originist" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. First published in the short story collection Foundation's Friends (1989),[1] 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.[2]

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.[3]

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".[4] Similar sentiment was expressed by the reviewer for asimovreviews.net.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Martin Harry Greenberg; Isaac Asimov (1990). Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov. Tom Doherty Associates. ISBN 978-0-8125-0980-9.
  2. ^ "Locus Awards 1990". Science Fiction Awards Database. Retrieved November 8, 2024.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Foundation's Friends: In Honor of Isaac Asimov". www.asimovreviews.net. Retrieved 2022-11-27.


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