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Was Hot Sleep literally his first novel or the first one published? See, I've read various places that one has to write about ten novels before producing a good one.
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I don't know the answer, but it doesn't have to be the first one published to be his first novel.
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Hot Sleep wasn't a novel as such, was it? It was a collection of short stories involving somec and memory taping.
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It was my first novel, and my first published novel. I've never written a novel that was not already under contract to be published.
Hot Sleep was written as a novel, though a badly structured one. Capitol was the collection of stories about somec.
My first published short story was, technically, Gert Fram, which was published in the July 1977 Enslgn Magazine. My first short story to be sold (and my first sci-fi sale) was Ender's Game, which appeared in the August 1977 Analog - which came out within a few days of the July Ensign that year.
The stories "Tinker" and "Worthing Farm" and "Worthing Inn" were the first sci-fi short stories I wrote with intent of publication, but they did not sell until much later - they felt too much like fantasy. These stories "from the Forest of Waters" were not published until after both Hot Sleep and Capitol.
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I've read Hot Sleep, Capitol, and both Worthing books. I can't keep them straight in my head for the life of me.
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Yes, your "first book" is different from your "first novel".
Card's first publication, period, was a poem he wrote as a young teenager for a Church magazine, I believe ...
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Actually, it was written for my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Schroeder, at her request; she submitted it to a California state teachers newslater, which published it. I'm sure it was in the "how cute" category. It was actually a seasonal duplicate of a Christmas poem I had written for class - at least it began the same. I remember it was published on the same page as a cute saying by another kid, who was writing in response to the question, "How can you take care of your teeth?" His answer was what you'd expect: Brush your teeth after every meal, don't eat candy, and "Watch out for pushers at the drinking fountain." I think his comment was better than my poem <grin>.
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