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K
EEPER
OF
D
REAMS

 

ALSO BY ORSON SCOTT CARD
FROM TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES

 

Empire

The Folk of the Fringe

Future on Fire
(editor)

Future on Ice
(editor)

Hidden Empire

Invasive Procedures
(with Aaron Johnston)

Lovelock
(with Kathryn Kidd)

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Saints

Songmaster

Treason

The Worthing Saga

Wyrms

THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER

Seventh Son

Red Prophet

Prentice Alvin

Alvin Journeyman

Heartfire

The Crystal City

ENDER

Ender’s Game

Ender’s Shadow

Shadow of the Hegemon

Shadow Puppets

Shadow of the Giant

Speaker for the Dead

Xenocide

Children of the Mind

First Meetings

A War of Gifts

Ender in Exile

The Authorized Ender Companion

HOMECOMING

The Memory of Earth

The Call of Earth

The Ships of Earth

Earthfall

Earthborn

WOMEN OF GENESIS

Sarah

Rebekah

Rachel & Leah

FROM OTHER PUBLISHERS

 

Enchantment

Homebody

Lost Boys

Magic Street

Stone Tables

Space Boy

Treasure Box

How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy

Characters and Viewpoint

Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show at
oscigms.com

K
EEPER
OF
D
REAMS
 

ORSON SCOTT CARD

 

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This is a work of fiction and nonfiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these stories are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

KEEPER OF DREAMS

Copyright © 2008 by Orson Scott Card

All rights reserved.

A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010

www.tor-forge.com

Tor
®
is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Card, Orson Scott.

Keeper of dreams / Orson Scott Card.—1st ed.

       p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 978-0-7653-0497-1

1. Science fiction, American. 2. Fantasy fiction, American. I. Title.
PS3553.A655K44 2008
813’.54—dc22

2007046720

ISBN 978-0-7653-2414-6

First Hardcover Edition: April 2008
First Trade Paperback Edition: April 2010

Printed in the United States of America

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F
IRST
P
UBLICATION
 
SCIENCE FICTION
 

“The Elephants of Poznan”—
Fantastyka
(Poland)

“Atlantis”—
Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences
, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer

“Geriatric Ward”—Written for
Last Dangerous Visions
, ed. Harlan Ellison, but never published

“Heal Thyself”—
Amazing Stories
, Summer 1999

“Space Boy”—
Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space
, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann

“Angles”—
Destination 3001
, ed. Robert Silverberg and Jacques Chambon (France)

FANTASY
 

“Vessel”—
BEM Magazine
(Spanish);
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
, December 1999 (English)

“Dust”—
Doorways

“Homeless in Hell”—
http://www.hatrack.com/osc/stories/homeless-in-hell.shtml

“In the Dragon’s House”—
The Dragon Quintet
, ed. Marvin Kaye

“Inventing Lovers on the Phone”—
Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian
, ed. Janis Ian and Mike Resnick

“Waterbaby”—
Galaxy Online

“Keeper of Lost Dreams”—
Flights: Visions of Extreme Fantasy
, ed. Al Sarrantonio

“Missed”—
Greensboro News & Record

LITERARY
 

“50 WPM”—
In the Shadow of the Wall: An Anthology of Vietnam Stories That Might Have Been
, ed. Byron R. Tetrick

“Feed the Baby of Love”—
The Bradbury Chronicles
, ed. William F. Nolan and Martin H. Greenberg

HATRACK RIVER
 

“Grinning Man”—
Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
, ed. Robert Silverberg

“The
Yazoo Queen
”—
Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
, ed. Robert Silverberg

MORMON STORIES
 

“Christmas at Helaman’s House”—
Christmas for the World: A Gift to the Children
, ed. Curtis Taylor and Stan Zenk

“Neighbors”—
Vigor

“God Plays Fair Once Too Often”—
Hillcon II Souvenir Booklet
(Rotterdam)

“Worthy to Be One of Us”—
Turning Hearts: Short Stories on Family Life
, ed. Orson Scott Card and David Dollahite

To Andy and Debbie Lindsay.
The play’s the thing . . .

C
ONTENTS
 

Preface

I
SCIENCE FICTION

 

The Elephants of Poznan

Atlantis

Geriatric Ward

Heal Thyself

Space Boy

Angles

II
FANTASY

 

Vessel

Dust

Homeless in Hell

In the Dragon’s House

Inventing Lovers on the Phone

Waterbaby

Keeper of Lost Dreams

Missed

III
LITERARY

 

50 WPM

Feed the Baby of Love

IV
HATRACK RIVER

 

Grinning Man

The
Yazoo Queen

V
MORMON STORIES

 

Christmas at Helaman’s House

Neighbors

God Plays Fair Once Too Often

Worthy to Be One of Us

P
REFACE
 

When I was just starting out as a writer, one of the reasons I chose to work in the science-fiction genre was because there was a viable short-story market—one that paid, but not enough to live on.

This was and remains vitally important to science fiction’s success as a genre of literature. Short stories give writers a place to try out their ideas and find their voices, with an audience to goad them on, through either their jeers or their applause. A new writer’s short story is published in the company of other people’s work, rubbing shoulders with fiction that appeals to different people and uses different techniques.

It’s like being invited to a crowded party, where you don’t know anybody but you’re pressed by the crowd right into the middle and rather forced to be part of the conversation whether you like it or not.

But because short stories don’t pay well, anyone trying to make a career in science fiction has to move to novels as quickly as possible. Novels are a different form from the short story and not everyone learns how to make the transition. However, most do.

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