The Originist Explained

"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. It was voted 8th in the category Best Novella at the 1990 Locus Awards.^[2]

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.^[3]

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".^[4] Similar sentiment was expressed by the reviewer for asimovreviews.net.^[5]

See also

• List of works by Orson Scott Card

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. Web site: Locus Awards 1990. Science Fiction Awards Database . November 8, 2024.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Web site: Foundation's Friends: In Honor of Isaac Asimov . 2022-11-27 . www.asimovreviews.net.