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CAPITOL
by
Orson Scott Card

(c) 1979 by Orson Scott Card


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CONTENTS

Preface
A Sleep and a Forgetting
A Thousand Deaths
Skipping Stones
Second Chance
Breaking the Game
Lifeloop
Burning
And What Will We Do Tomorrow?
Killing Children
When No One Remembers His Name, Does God Retire?
The Stars That Blink

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To Jay A. Perry,
Who has read everything and made it better

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Preface

Fiction usually does a better job standing on its own, but occasionally a word of explanation can help a reader receive a work as the author means to give it.

Capitol is not a novel; however, it is also not a short story collection. While all the stories in Capitol are completely self-contained, they are placed in the book in chronological order, to gradually unfold the biography of a world and a way of life that is born in "A Steep and a Forgetting" and dies in "The Stars That Blink. " I urge you to read them in order.

Also, Capitol overlaps in time and some characters with Hot Sleep, which is a novel, and which is soon to appear, like Capitol, as an Analog Book. Together, they comprise what is now extant of The Worthing Chronicle.

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A SLEEP AND A FORGETTING

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

-- Ecclesiastes 1:11