essential for O.S. Card lovers / BOMC edition almost same as TOR (same tall size, lacks price & ISBN)

Orson Scott Card: MAPS IN A MIRROR - a major collection of 46 stories (1990.) Hardcover and trade-paperback edtions of this are complete. The final section (Book 5) has not appeared in any mass-market paperback edtion. In the U.S.A., the first 4 sections each appeared as a mass-market paperback, and in Britain there were 2 paperbacks - containing (Books 1+2) and (Books 3+4). This is the first appearance in a Card collection for about half of these. Includes all of the stories from: UNACCOMPANIED SONATA,1981 and CARDOGRAPHY,1987. Designed to "play nice" (by avoiding duplication) with his other collections THE WORTHING SAGA (1990 - which replaced/updated Capitol), and THE FOLK OF THE FRINGE (1989.)

This collects most of his fiction to 1990, but deliberately omits "Happy Head" - which was a cover novelette for Analog, and happens to be a Card story I liked a lot. Card's introductions total almost 20 pages, and his afterwords total about 45 pages. This is huge: a large format hardcover - 675 pages. Several stories were nominated for Hugo and/or Nebula awards: "Ender's Game," " Mikhail's Songbird," "Unaccompanied Sonata." "Eye for Eye" won the best-novella Hugo in 1988.

Contents:
Book 1, THE HANGED MAN: Tales of Dread
(Introduction by Orson Scott Card)
Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory
Quietus
Deep Breathing Exercises
Fat Farm
Closing the Timelid
Freeway Games - (original title: "Hard Driver")
A Sepulchre of Songs
Prior Restraint
The Changed Man and the King of Words
Memories of My Head
Lost Boys
(Afterword by Orson Scott Card)

Book 2, FLUX: Tales of Human Futures
(Introduction by Orson Scott Card)
A Thousand Deaths
Clap Hands and Sing
Dogwalker
But We Try Not to Act Like It
I Put My Blue Genes On
In the Doghouse (w/ Jay A. Parry)
The Originist
(Afterword by Orson Scott Card)

Book 3, MAPS IN A MIRROR: Fables and Fantasies
(Introduction by Orson Scott Card)
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
The Monkeys Thought 'Twas All in Fun
(Afterword by Orson Scott Card)

Book 4, CRUEL MIRACLES: Tales of Death, Hope, and Holiness
(Introduction by Orson Scott Card)
Mortal Gods
Saving Grace
Eye for Eye
St. Amy's Tale
Kingsmeat
Holy
(Afterword by Orson Scott Card)

Book 5, LOST SONGS: The Hidden Stories
(Introduction by Orson Scott Card)
Ender's Game
Mikhail's Songbird
(Poem): Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow
Malpractice
Follower
Hitching
Damn Fine Novel
Billy's Box
The Best Family Home Evening Ever
Bicicleta
I Think Mom and Dad Are Going Crazy, Jerry
Gert Fram
(Afterword by Orson Scott Card)

Sources include CHYRSALIS 4, 7, OMNI, Magazine of F&SF, Gallery, Aboriginal SF, Night Cry, ISAAC ASIMOV'S, Analog, UNACCOMPANIED SONATA, FOUNDATION'S FRIENDS, DRAGONS OF DARKNESS, OTHER WORLDS 1, BERKLEY SHOWCASE 1, SWORDS AGAINST DARKNESS 4, ANALOG YEARBOOK, NEW DIMENSIONS 10, Mountainwest, The Green Pages, The Friend, The New Era, The Ensign.