Grinning Man

"Grinning Man"
Cover of the Legends anthology
Author	Orson Scott Card
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Tales of Alvin Maker
Genre(s)	Fantasy
Published in	Legends
Publisher	Tor Books
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Publication date	1998

"Grinning Man" (1998) is a fantasy short story by Orson Scott Card set in his The Tales of Alvin Maker series. It was published in the anthology Legends.

Plot summary

Alvin and Arthur are traveling through Kentucky country and come across a man who is grinning at a bear. Further on, they find a town where a prosperous miller takes Alvin and Arthur in to work, but Alvin soon discovers why the miller is so prosperous.

Related works

"The Yazoo Queen"

External links

The official Orson Scott Card website

Works by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game

Books	Ender's Game (1985) Speaker for the Dead (1986) Xenocide (1991) Children of the Mind (1996) Ender's Shadow (1999) Shadow of the Hegemon (2001) Shadow Puppets (2002) First Meetings (2002) Shadow of the Giant (2005) A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007) Ender in Exile (2008) Shadows in Flight (2012) Earth Unaware (2012) Earth Afire (2013) Earth Awakens (2014) The Swarm (2016) Shadows Alive (TBA)

Short stories	"Ender's Game" (1977) "Gloriously Bright" (1991) "Investment Counselor" "The Polish Boy" "Teacher's Pest" "Mazer in Prison" "Pretty Boy" "Cheater" "A Young Man with Prospects" "The Gold Bug" "Ender's Stocking" "Ender's Homecoming" "Ender in Flight"

Other media	Comics Film

Characters	Ender Wiggin Formics Jane

Concepts	Organizations Planets

The Tales of Alvin Maker

Books	Seventh Son (1987) Red Prophet (1988) Prentice Alvin (1989) Alvin Journeyman (1995) Heartfire (1998) The Crystal City (2003) Master Alvin (TBA)

Short stories	"Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow" (poem, 1989) "The Grinning Man" (1998) "The Yazoo Queen" (2003) "Alvin and the Apple Tree" (2014)

Other media	Red Prophet: The Tales Of Alvin Maker (comic book, 2006)

Other works

Homecoming Saga

The Memory of Earth (1992)
The Call of Earth (1992)
The Ships of Earth (1994)
Earthfall (1995)
Earthborn (1995)

Women of Genesis

Sarah (2000)
Rebekah (2001)
Rachel and Leah (2004)
The Wives of Israel (TBA)
The Sons of Rachel (TBA)

Mithermages series

Books	The Lost Gate (2011) The Gate Thief (2013)

Short stories	"Sandmagic" (1979) "Stonefather" (2008)

Mayflower series

Lovelock (1994)
Rasputin (TBA)

The Worthing series

Books	Capitol (1979) Hot Sleep (1979) The Worthing Chronicle (1983) The Worthing Saga (1990)

Short stories	"A Sleep and a Forgetting" "A Thousand Deaths" "Skipping Stones" " Second Chance" "Lifeloop" "Breaking the Game" "Burning" "Killing Children" "And What Will We Do Tomorrow?" "When No One Remembers His Name, Does God Retire?" "The Stars That Blink" "Worthing Farm" "Worthing Inn" "The Tinker"

The Empire duet

Empire (2006)
Hidden Empire (2009)

The Pathfinder series

Pathfinder (2010)
Ruins (2012)
Visitors (2014)

Standalone novels

A Planet Called Treason (1979)
Songmaster (1980)
Hart's Hope (1983)
Saints (1983)
Wyrms (1987)
Treason (1988)
The Abyss (1989)
Lost Boys (1992)
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
Treasure Box (1996)
Stone Tables (1997)
Homebody (1998)
Enchantment (1999)
Magic Street (2005)
Invasive Procedures (2007)
Bully and the Beast (TBA)

Story collections

Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories (1980)
Cardography (1987)
The Folk of the Fringe (1989)
Maps in a Mirror (1990)
Waterbaby (2001)
Doorways (2002)
Keeper of Dreams (2008)

Other works

Listen, Mom and Dad (1977)
Ainge (1981)
Saintspeak (1981)
Eye for Eye (1990)
Magic Mirror (1999)
Robota (2003)
An Open Book (2004)
Ultimate Iron Man (2005)
The Space Boy (2007)
Hamlet's Father (2011)
Advent Rising (2005)
The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)
Loom (1990)
The Dig (1995)
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
Stories of Strength (2005)

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Grinning Man

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