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Orson Scott Card

First published January 1987
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series The Mormon Sea

Synopsis

A teenage American boy in the Amazon jungle with his father volunteers to assist an older Indian woman who provides medical care to impoverished villages; but both have prophetic dreams.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1988 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (24)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1987 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1987 Davis Publications MAGAZINE 22
May 1988 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 580
May 1988 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 580
June 1988 The 1988 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 71
June 1988 The 1988 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 71
August 1988 The 1988 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / SFBC Anthology 50
September 1988 Best New SF 2 Robinson Anthology 580
September 1988 Best New SF 2 Robinson Anthology 580
April 1989 The Folk of the Fringe Phantasia Press Collection 191
April 1989 The Folk of the Fringe Phantasia Press Collection 191
April 1989 The Folk of the Fringe Phantasia Press Collection 191
August 1989 Transcendental Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Starblaze / The Donning Company Anthology 90
March 1990 The Folk of the Fringe Legend Collection 191
March 1990 The Folk of the Fringe Legend Collection 191
August 1990 The Folk of the Fringe Tor Collection 240
January 1991 The Folk of the Fringe Tor / SFBC Collection 182
May 1991 The Folk of the Fringe Legend Collection
August 1993 Under South American Skies DAW Books Anthology 158
October 1993 The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 W. W. Norton & Company Anthology 665
June 1994 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 580
January 1998 The Folk of the Fringe Tor Collection 240
June 1999 The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 W. W. Norton & Company Anthology 665
January 2007 The Folk of the Fringe Audible Studios Collection
January 2010 Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #16, January 2010 Hatrack River Enterprises MAGAZINE