The Worthing Saga

Name: The Worthing Saga
Rating: 4.315789699554443 (95 reviews)

Orson Scott Card

Dec 1992 · Tor Books

4.3

95 reviews

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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.

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. Some 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.

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4.3

95 reviews

A Google user

16 November 2012

This has to be my favorite OSC book. Think of it as the Inception of stories - tales within tales.. except with some understanding, you'll see how the stories intertwine, how the characters affect each other on a grand scale, how a minor scene in one story is the key of another. This saga, like many of Card's other novels, are very thought provoking with questions regarding science, morality, and religion even (not in an annoying way, I promise). Worth revisiting time and again.

A Google user

10 June 2017

A Saga worthy of teaching many lessons easily forgotten, the failings of the liberal ideology of catering to perceived (false) victimhood is shown as a massive failure, like in real life.

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alessandro demontis (ContainerMan)

24 September 2023

probably the best book i have ever read. So touchy, provoking... shocking how it teaches the value of grief.

About the author

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; his most recent novel, The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.

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