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Worthing Saga, The

By: Tor Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Tor Books)

Last Stocked on 7/28/2022

Product Info

Title
Worthing Saga, The
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Orson Scott Card
Publish Year
1992
Pages
463
Dimensions
4x6.75x1.25"
NKG Part #
2147892685
Type
Softcover

Description

Gathering every story about Jason Worthing, this volume includes "The Worthing Chronicle," as well as all of the other stories set on Capitol and later on Jason's colonized planet.

It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built.

It came near to destroying humanity.

After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried.

Orson Scott Card is "a master of the art of storytelling" (Booklist), and The Worthing Saga is a story that only he could have written.