Series
The Mormon Sea
Orson Scott Card · 2 novellas · 3 novelettes · 1 collection · 1985–1989
Orson Scott Card's Folk of the Fringe stories follow small communities of Mormon survivors rebuilding after a devastating nuclear war has reduced America to scattered, struggling settlements. Linked by recurring characters rather than a single continuous plot, stories like 'West' and 'Pageant Wagon' trace refugees making the long journey toward a resettled Utah, a region reimagined as the state of Deseret. The stories combine hard survivalist detail with Card's interest in faith and community under pressure.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
The Mormon Sea at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s6
Shape
2 novellas · 3 novelettes · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:science fictionsurvivalnorth americanear futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Pageant Wagondarkest · most intense
- The Folk of the Fringebrightest
- Salvagecalmest