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  I also enjoy the fact that criticisms of my story for violating expectations have all come from the more literary, “experimental” wing of the science fiction community. It seems that they love experimentation and literary flamboyance—but only if it follows the correct line. If somebody dares to do something that is surprisingly shocking instead of predictably shocking, well, fie on them. Thus do the radicals reveal their orthodoxy.

  The fact remains that “Lost Boys” is the most autobiographical, personal, and painful story I’ve ever written. I wrote it in the absolutely only way I could have written it. So even if the manner of its writing is a literary crime, as these critics say, I can only answer, “So shoot me.” I’m in the business of telling true stories as well as I possibly can. I’ve never yet found any of their rules that helped me tell a story better; and if I had followed their rules on this story, I never could have told it at all.

  This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.

  THE CHANGED MAN

  Copyright © 1992 by Orson Scott Card

  Previously published as book one of Maps In Mirror by Orson Scott Card (Tor, 1990)

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  eISBN 978-1-4299-2219-7

  First eBook Edition : May 2011

  First edition: April 1992

  Tor Books by Orson Scott Card

  Note: Within series, books are best read in listed order.

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  ENDER UNIVERSE

  Ender Series

  Ender Wiggin: The finest general the world could hope to find or breed.

  Ender's Game

  Ender in Exile

  Speaker for the Dead

  Xenocide

  Children of the Mind

  Ender's Shadow Series

  Parallel storylines to Ender's Game from Bean: Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend.

  Ender's Shadow

  Shadow of the Hegemon

  Shadow Puppets

  Shadow of the Giant

  Shadows in Flight

  The First Formic War Series

  One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death.

  These are the stories of the First Formic War.

  Earth Unaware

  Earth Afire

  Ender novellas

  A War of Gifts

  First Meetings

  The Authorized Ender Companion by Jake Black

  A complete and in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things, and events in Orson Scott Card's Ender Universe.

  THE MITHER MAGES SERIES

  Danny North is different from his magical family. And when he discovers his gift, it is greater than he ever imagined—which could earn him a death sentence.

  The Lost Gate

  The Gate Thief

  THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER SERIES

  Visit the magical America that might have been, marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds.

  Seventh Son

  Red Prophet

  Prentice Alvin

  Alvin Journeyman

  Heartfire

  The Crystal City

  HOMECOMING SERIES

  Earth has been rendered uninhabitable. But it is still vital.

  The Memory of Earth

  The Call of Earth

  The Ships of Earth

  Earthfall

  Earthborn

  WOMEN OF GENESIS SERIES

  Fiction exploring the human side of Biblical women.

  Sarah

  Rebekah

  Rachel & Leah

  THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD

  Experience Card's full versatility, from science fiction to fantasy, from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction.

  Keeper of Dreams

  The Changed Man

  Cruel Miracles

  Flux

  Monkey Sonatas

  STAND-ALONE FICTION

  Hart's Hope: Dark and powerful fantasy.

  Lovelock (with Kathryn Kidd): A startling look at the ethics of bioengineering.

  Pastwatch: In this novel of time travel, can the past be changed?

  Saints: A novel of the early days of the Mormon Church.

  Songmaster: An SF classic and a haunting story of power and love.

  The Worthing Saga: The tale of a seed ship sent out to save the human race.

  Wyrms: The story of a young woman's journey to confront her destiny, and her world's.

  The Folk of the Fringe: When America is destroyed, it's up to those on the fringes to rebuild.

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