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Orson Scott Card


America

America

The Mormon Sea

Orson Scott Card

This novelette orginally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1987. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988), edited by Gardner Dozois, The 1988 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, Future Earths: Under South American Skies (1993), edited by Gardner Dozois and Mike Resnick, and The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993), edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery. The story is included in the collection The Folk of the Fringe (1989).

The Folk of the Fringe

The Folk of the Fringe

The Mormon Sea

Orson Scott Card

Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there exited a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret, formed from the vestiges of Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. The climate has changed. The Great Salt Lake has filled up to prehistoric levels. But there, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.

A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful organizations, or even by great men alone. It must be renewed by individual men and women, one by one, working together to make a community, a nation, a new America.

Table of Contents:

  • West - (1987) - novella
  • Salvage - (1986) - novelette
  • The Fringe - (1985) - novelette
  • Pageant Wagon - (1989) - novella
  • America - (1987) - novelette
  • Author's Note: On Sycamore Hill - (1985) - essay
  • Afterword - essay by Michael R. Collings
The Fringe

The Fringe

The Mormon Sea

Orson Scott Card

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1985 and was reprinted in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #14, September 2009. The story can aslo be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986), edited by Gardner Dozois, Nebula Awards 21 (1986), edited by George Zebrowski and Future on Ice (1998), edited by Orson Scott Card. It is included in the collection The Folk of the Fringe (1989).

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