The Originist
# The Originist

"The Originist" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. First published in the short story collection Foundation's Friends (1989), it also appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. This story is set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe.

## Plot summary

The events in "The Originist" take place just after the first part of Foundation and deal with Hari Seldon's establishment of the Second Foundation.

## Reception

David Langford who commented briefly on the anthology Foundation's Friends, praised Orson Scott Card's work as the best story in the anthology and "the best Foundation/Empire story ever written". Similar sentiment was expressed by the reviewer for asimovreviews.net.

