The Originist

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"The Originist"
Author Orson Scott Card
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Foundation series
Published in Foundation's Friends
Publisher Tor Books
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback)
Publication date 1989
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Short story collection

"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.

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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]

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References

  1. Martin Harry Greenberg; Isaac Asimov (1990). Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov. Tom Doherty Associates. ISBN   978-0-8125-0980-9.
  2. Orson Scott Card (30 November 2009). Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card. Tom Doherty Associates. ISBN   978-1-4299-6615-3.