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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
. It appears in his short story collections Cardography
Cardography
Cardography is a short story collection by Orson Scott Card. It contains five stories and an introduction by David Hartwell. All five of these stories were later published in Maps in a Mirror- Story list :The short stories in this book are:...
and Maps in a Mirror
Maps in a Mirror
Maps in a Mirror is a collection of short stories by Orson Scott Card. Like Card's novels, most of the stories have a science fiction or fantasy theme...
. Card originally published this in the anthology Swords Against Darkness IV edited by Andrew J. Offutt
Andrew J. Offutt
Andrew Jefferson Offutt is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written as Andrew J. Offutt, A. J. Offutt, and Andy Offutt. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, has all his name in lower-case letters.-Life and family:Offutt has been married for over 50 years to Jodie McCabe...
. This story was the basis for the novel The Lost Gate
The Lost Gate
The Lost Gate is a fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. It is the first novel in the Mither Mages trilogy.-Backcover Teaser:In the ancient world, pantheons of gods ruled over every society of man, until the trickster, Loki, sealed off the source of their power...
which was released in 2011.