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The Worthing Saga

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The Worthing Chronicle
1 - The Day of Pain
2 - The Making of Parchment and Ink
3 - A Book of Old Memories
4 - The Devil Himself
5 - The End of Sleep
6 - Waking of the Children
7 - Winter Tales
8 - Getting Home
9 - Worthing Farm
10 - In the Image of God
11 - Acts of Mercy
12 - The Day of Justice
Tales of Capitol
13 - Skipping Stones
14 - Second Chance
15 - Lifeloop
16 - Breaking the Game
17 - Killing Children
18 - What Will We Do Tomorrow?
Tales from the Forest of Waters
19 - Worthing Farm
20 - Worthing Inn
21 - The Tinker
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A series of science fiction by Orson Scott Card.

3) The Worthing Chronicle
4) The Worthing Saga
Copyright © 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1989, 1990 by Orson Scott Card
The Worthing Chronicle:
For Laird and Sally
because the right tales
are true to you.


Tales of Capitol:
To Jay A. Parry,
who has read everything
and made it better


Tales from the Forest of Waters
To Peggy Card,
who believed in these stories
even before they were true
In many places in the Peopled Worlds, the pain came suddenly in the midst of the day's labor.
May contain spoilers
Martin Keeper went away downstairs.
Comments may contain spoilers
Copyright 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1989 by Orson Scott Card

"Lifeloop" copyright © 1978 by The Condé Nast Publications Inc. (First published in Analog, October 1978.)

"Killing Children" copyright © 1978 by The Condé Nast Publications, Inc. (First published in Analog, November 1978.)

"Second Chance" copyright © 1979 by Charter Communications, Inc. (First published in Destinies, Ace Books, January 1979.)

"Breaking the Game" copyright © 1979 by The Condé Nast Publications Inc. (First published in Analog, January 1979.)

"Tinker" copyright © 1979 by Orson Scott Card. (First published in Eternity SF #2.)

Capitol: The Worthing Chronicle copyright © 1979 by Orson Scott Card.

The Worthing Chronicle copyright © 1982 by Orson Scott Card. (First published by Ace Books, The Worthing Chronicle superseded and replaced Hot Sleep, the author's first novel, also published by Ace.)

"Author's Introduction" copyright © 1989 by Orson Scott Card

"Afterword" copyright © 1989 by Michael Collings
Synopsis not on file
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Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 19-Mar-2023

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 15-Dec-1992
Tor Books
Paperback
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Date Issued:
15-Dec-1992
Format:
Paperback
Cover Price:
$5.99
Pages*:
458
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Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1581
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-812-53331-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-812-53331-6
Printing:
6
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Wayne Barlowe  - Cover Artist
Michael R Collings - Afterword
SOMEC

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.

THE
WORTHING
SAGA
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First edition: December 1990
Sixth printing based on the number line
Canada: $6.99

Read this book after finishing The Worthing Chronicle except for the part that is reprinted from that book.

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Author(s)

Orson Scott Card  
Birth: 24 Aug 1951 Richland, Washington, USA

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