Crove

"My God, Crove, how long do you think I can keep doing this?" asked the prosecutor.

Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990

But he had written his speech as if it were an impassioned climactic scene in a play (Crove Against the Communists or perhaps Liberty's Last Cry), and he the hero who would willingly give his life for the chance to instill a little bit of patriotism (a little bit of intelligence, who gives a damn about patriotism!) in the hearts and minds of the millions of Americans who would be watching.

Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990

And the best of it is, the emperor has decreed that all government offices are to be moved to Crove.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

They lay in the grass as the sun set, and she felt more fulfilled than she had since a day on a cliff in Crove when she had begun her career of conquests.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

Many young men of his class on the planet Crove used their serving-men as whipping boys.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

With Crove now called Capitol, there was an incredible building boom.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

And he set up the easel at the window, so he could see the yard below, dotted with the graceful whiptrees; of Crove that rose fifty meters straight up into the air -- and then, in a storm, lay over completely on the ground, so that no farmer of the Plains could ever be free of the worry of having a whiptree crash against his house in the wind.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

But he had written his speech as if it were an impassioned climactic scene in a play (Crove Against the Communists or perhaps Liberty's Last Cry), and he the hero who would willingly give his life for the chance to instill a little bit of patriotism (a little bit of intelligence, who gives a damn about patriotism!) in the hearts and minds of the millions of Americans who would be watching.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

"Actually," Doon answered, "I have the only place on Crove where the birds do watch from the trees."

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

The largest estate on Crove, besides the emperor's, was now Bergen's.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979