The Originist

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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. 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]

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