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The Worthing Saga (Worthing, #1-3)

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  • Dec, 1990
  • #ScienceFiction #Fantasy
Orson Scott Card
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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.... Show More

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.

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Number of Pages: 463

ISBN: 0812533313

ISBN-13: 9780812533316

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Emmett Shear @EmmettShear · Mar 31, 2023
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Daemon by Suarez is good, v niche, weirdly timely atm If you haven’t read Borges, he’s broadly amazing. And underread among sci-fi / fantasy lovers. Card’s old, weird stuff (eg The Worthing Saga) is great Roadside Picnic is still v good, and was written in the old USSR
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