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|published_in = [[InterGalactic Medicine Show]]<br>''[[Ender's Way]]'' |
|published_in = [[InterGalactic Medicine Show]]<br>''[[Ender's Way]]'' |
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|publisher = Hatrack River Enterprises<br>Centipede Press |
|publisher = Hatrack River Enterprises<br>Centipede Press |
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| − | '''"The Gold Bug"''' is a short story written by [[Orson Scott Card]]. It tells the story of [[Sel Menach]] discovering a [[Formics|Formicoid]] lifeform on a colony world. It |
+ | }}'''"The Gold Bug"''' is a short story written by [[Orson Scott Card]]. It tells the story of [[Sel Menach]] discovering a [[Formics|Formicoid]] lifeform on a colony world. It was first published in Card's webzine, the [[InterGalactic Medicine Show]]<ref name=":0">[http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=issue&vol=i5&article=_card "The Gold Bug" on the Intergalactic Medicine Show]</ref> in July 2007, and was republished in the illustrated anthology [[Ender's Way|''Ender's Way'']] in April 2021. |
== Story Details == |
== Story Details == |
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Revision as of 03:20, 23 August 2021
- This article is about the short story. You may be looking for other uses of Gold Bug.
"The Gold Bug" is a short story written by Orson Scott Card. It tells the story of Sel Menach discovering a Formicoid lifeform on a colony world. It was first published in Card's webzine, the InterGalactic Medicine Show[1] in July 2007, and was republished in the illustrated anthology Ender's Way in April 2021.
Story Details
"The Gold Bug" is the story of Sel Menach, a fighter pilot in the Third Formic War, xenobiologist, and eventually the governor of one of the former Formic worlds. When a colony ship from Earth arrived, carrying Ender Wiggin, the new soon-to-be governor, Sel decided to go on an expedition into unexplored lands so that it would be easier for Ender to take over as governor.[1]
On the expedition, Sel discovered some caves with large golden bugs, which he believed to be a cross between the Formics and a parasite native to the planet. He established some limited contact with the hybrid creature and discovered they were hungry and wanted to be fed. While he brought the food, Ender showed up and arranged for the bugs to be fed, and took Sel back to the colony and his work as a xenobiologist.[1]