Damn Fine Novel

"Damn Fine Novel"
Author Orson Scott Card
Country United States
Language English
Published in Maps in a Mirror
Publisher Tor Books
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Publication date 1990

"Damn Fine Novel" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. Card originally published this story in the October 1989 issue of The Green Pages under the pseudonym Noam D. Pellume.

Plot summary

The story is about the narrator's plan to write a book that will launch him into the pantheons of celebrity. Initially he plans to call his book F—— Good Read, but later settles on Damn Fine Novel. Though no one will ever read the book, critics and literary students will hail it as "holy writ".

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