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CAPITOL
by Orson Scott Card

(c) 1979 by Orson Scott Card

v1.0(Apr-06-1999)

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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.