This huge new collection of the short stories of one of Science Fiction’s most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. The volume contains 24 stories, Card’s new introductions for each story, and commentary on his life and work.

Like the earlier Maps in A Mirror, this collection is a definitive retrospective of the short fiction career of the writer that The Houston Post called “the best writer science fiction has to offer.”

"Multiple Hugo- and Nebula-winner Card offers short, revealing commentaries on these 22 compelling short stories, novelettes, and novellas, noting that short work has inspired some of his best and best-known long fiction. These short science fiction, fantasy and 'literary' stories, along with a handful of Hatrack River tales (related to the Alvin Maker series) and four stories 'written by a Mormon, about Mormon culture, for Mormon readers,' illustrate Card's fascination with complex child protagonists, touchingly portrayed in 'Inventing Lovers on the Phone'; absorption with moral dilemmas, wrapped up in family love and tensions in 'Worthy to Be One of Us'; and new views of old traditions, familiar and discomfiting in 'Homeless in Hell' and 'Christmas at Helaman's House.' Card intended several of the included stories, like the powerful 'In the Dragon's House,' to open novels not yet written, but even on their own they provide significant examples of his perennial themes: morality, salvation and redemption." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

This new collection of Card's short fiction contains 22 stories, including two from the Alvin Maker Universe, with new introductions and commentary on his life and work, all written by Card himself.

Orson Scott Card is the internationally best-selling author of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Shadow of the Giant.  He lives in Greensboro, NC.