Capitol (collection)

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 0-894-37072-3 Baronet Pub., paperback, 1979
• ISBN 0-708-88064-9 Ace Books, paperback, 1980

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