Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card\'s Short Fiction written between 1977 and 1990.
He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret..
Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.
He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s.
Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah.
Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science Fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card\'s Intergalactic Medicine Show .
Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America
The Lost Gate , is a contemporary magical fantasy.
There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series.
Ender\'s Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years.
An important volume."-- Library Journal About the Author Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender\'s Game , Ender\'s Shadow , and Speaker for the Dead . "One of the genre\'s most convincing storytellers.
In them the author reveals some of his reasons and motivations for writing, with a good deal of autobiography into the bargain.
In this enormous volume are forty-six stories, plus ten long, intensely personal essays, unique to this volume.
The brilliant story-telling of the Alvin Maker books is no accident; the breathless excitement evoked by the Ender books is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
For the hundreds of thousands who are newly come to Card, here is chance to experience the wonder of a writer so versatile that he can handle everything from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental Fiction with equal ease and grace.
For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well.
Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card\'s Short Fiction written between 1977 and 1990
