''Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories'' (1980) is a collection of short stories by American writer

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. Although not purely

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and definitely not

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, the book contains stories that have a futuristic angle or are purely works of

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set in current times. All the stories except “The Porcelain Salamander” were first published elsewhere before appearing in the ''Unaccompanied Sonata'' collection. All eleven of these stories were later published in ''

Maps in a Mirror ''Maps in a Mirror'' (1990) is a collection of short stories by American writer Orson Scott Card. Like Card's novels, most of the stories have a science fiction or fantasy theme. Some of the stories, such as "Ender's Game", " Lost Boys", and ...

''.

Story list

The short stories in this book are: * " Ender’s Game" * "Kingsmeat" * "Deep Breathing Exercises" * "Closing the Timelid" * " I Put My Blue Genes On" * "Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory" * "Mortal Gods" * "Quietus" * " The Monkeys Thought 'Twas All in Fun" * "The Porcelain Salamander" * "

Unaccompanied Sonata "Unaccompanied Sonata" is a short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, first published in the March, 1979 issue of '' Omni'' magazine. It appears in his short story collections '' Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories'' and '' Maps in a Mirr ...

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Publication information for ''Unaccompanied Sonata'' available from Card’s website
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Story list

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