The Worthing Saga

The Worthing Saga

By Orson Scott Card
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“A gripping story…Even though the book is decades old, it could pass for being written this year. Technology advances, but relationships and moral dilemmas are timeless, and both are Mr. Card’s stock in trade.”

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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 into motion. It allowed interstellar empires to be built. It came near to destroying humanity.

After eons of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. Each carried human embryos, supplies, 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.

This is a full cast recording, with an afterword read by Orson Scott Card.

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  1. Janet
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    Great story spans eons and isn't afraid of difficult questions

    This saga spans eons of time starting with a future developed far beyond our own, to a farther future that has it's inhabitants building huts, to an even farther future where the minds of some reign supreme. This story manages to entertain you while at the same time exploring big questions such as "should humans want to live forever", "why does God let bad things happen" and "what does it really mean to be human". A great read.

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  2. isabella b
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    exciting science fiction

    Very well written and read novel. I had to steel myself to stop listened and go to sleep, that's hew rivilting the book was.

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