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This third volume of Orson Scott Card's five-volume anthology of short stories features ten fantasies and fables full of princesses and giants, bears and monkeys, magic and revelation. Discover the pitfalls of paradise, how to handle a dragon, the true secret of happiness, and much more. Card offers background commentaries for each story in a series of afterwords and introductions. Stories included are: Unaccompanied Sonata, A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon, The Porcelain Salamander, Middle Woman, The Bully and the Beast, The Princess and the Bear, Sandmagic, The Best Day, A Plague of Butterflies, and The Monkeys Thought ‘Twas All in Fun.
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"The award-winning author of Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, and the Alvin Maker series demonstrates his talent for shorter fiction in this collection of 46 stories that range from fantasy and sf to horror and theological speculation….Detailed introductions and afterwords reveal insights into the thought processes of one of the genres most convincing storytellers. An important volume; for most
Library Journal on the Maps in a Mirror anthology collection
"Definitive…A series of introductions and afterwords offering Cards thoughts on his life and his writing are as absorbing as the stories."
Publishers Weekly
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- SeriesMaps in a Mirror