The Originist Explained

The Originist
Author:Orson Scott Card
Country:United States
Language:English
Series:Foundation series
Published In:Foundation's Friends
Publisher:Tor Books
Media Type:Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pub Date:1989

"The Originist" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. First published in the short story collection Foundation's Friends (1989),[1] it also appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. This story is set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe.

Plot summary

The events in "The Originist" take place just after the first part of Foundation and deal with Hari Seldon's establishment of the Second Foundation.[2]

Reception

David Langford who commented briefly on the anthology Foundation's Friends, praised Orson Scott Card's work as the best story in the anthology and "the best Foundation/Empire story ever written".[3] Similar sentiment was expressed by the reviewer for asimovreviews.net.[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Martin Harry Greenberg. Isaac Asimov. Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov. registration. 1990. Tom Doherty Associates. 978-0-8125-0980-9.
  2. Book: Orson Scott Card. Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card. 30 November 2009. Tom Doherty Associates. 978-1-4299-6615-3.
  3. Book: Langford, David . Complete Critical Assembly: The Collected White Dwarf (And Gm, and Gmi) Sf Review Columns . 2002-10-01 . Wildside Press LLC . 978-1-58715-330-3 . 299 . en.
  4. Web site: Foundation's Friends: In Honor of Isaac Asimov . 2022-11-27 . www.asimovreviews.net.

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