Capitol (short story collection)

Capitol
First edition
Author	Orson Scott Card
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. 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).

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

Related Works

External links

Publication information for Capitol available from Card’s website

Works by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game

Books	Ender's Game (1985) Speaker for the Dead (1986) Xenocide (1991) Children of the Mind (1996) Ender's Shadow (1999) Shadow of the Hegemon (2001) Shadow Puppets (2002) First Meetings (2002) Shadow of the Giant (2005) A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007) Ender in Exile (2008) Shadows in Flight (2012) Earth Unaware (2012) Earth Afire (2013) Earth Awakens (2014) The Swarm (2016) Shadows Alive (TBA)

Short stories	"Ender's Game" (1977) "Gloriously Bright" (1991) "Investment Counselor" "The Polish Boy" "Teacher's Pest" "Mazer in Prison" "Pretty Boy" "Cheater" "A Young Man with Prospects" "The Gold Bug" "Ender's Stocking" "Ender's Homecoming" "Ender in Flight"

Other media	Comics Film

Characters	Ender Wiggin Formics Jane

Concepts	Organizations Planets

The Tales of Alvin Maker

Books	Seventh Son (1987) Red Prophet (1988) Prentice Alvin (1989) Alvin Journeyman (1995) Heartfire (1998) The Crystal City (2003) Master Alvin (TBA)

Short stories	"Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow" (poem, 1989) "The Grinning Man" (1998) "The Yazoo Queen" (2003) "Alvin and the Apple Tree" (2014)

Other media	Red Prophet: The Tales Of Alvin Maker (comic book, 2006)

Other works

Homecoming Saga

The Memory of Earth (1992)
The Call of Earth (1992)
The Ships of Earth (1994)
Earthfall (1995)
Earthborn (1995)

Women of Genesis

Sarah (2000)
Rebekah (2001)
Rachel and Leah (2004)
The Wives of Israel (TBA)
The Sons of Rachel (TBA)

Mithermages series

Books	The Lost Gate (2011) The Gate Thief (2013)

Short stories	"Sandmagic" (1979) "Stonefather" (2008)

Mayflower series

Lovelock (1994)
Rasputin (TBA)

The Worthing series

Books	Capitol (1979) Hot Sleep (1979) The Worthing Chronicle (1983) The Worthing Saga (1990)

Short stories	"A Sleep and a Forgetting" "A Thousand Deaths" "Skipping Stones" " Second Chance" "Lifeloop" "Breaking the Game" "Burning" "Killing Children" "And What Will We Do Tomorrow?" "When No One Remembers His Name, Does God Retire?" "The Stars That Blink" "Worthing Farm" "Worthing Inn" "The Tinker"

The Empire duet

Empire (2006)
Hidden Empire (2009)

The Pathfinder series

Pathfinder (2010)
Ruins (2012)
Visitors (2014)

Standalone novels

A Planet Called Treason (1979)
Songmaster (1980)
Hart's Hope (1983)
Saints (1983)
Wyrms (1987)
Treason (1988)
The Abyss (1989)
Lost Boys (1992)
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
Treasure Box (1996)
Stone Tables (1997)
Homebody (1998)
Enchantment (1999)
Magic Street (2005)
Invasive Procedures (2007)
Bully and the Beast (TBA)

Story collections

Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories (1980)
Cardography (1987)
The Folk of the Fringe (1989)
Maps in a Mirror (1990)
Waterbaby (2001)
Doorways (2002)
Keeper of Dreams (2008)