The Worthing Chronicle

✍ Scribed by Orson Scott Card

• Publisher: Ace Books
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 196 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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From the award-winning, bestselling author of Enders Game comes

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The Worthing Chronicle!

If you would be a God, you must pay the price.

Jason Worthing was a telepath, and the best of the ark captains sent to conquer and seed humankind anew on a hundred new worlds.

He vowed that his new-world would be different from the stagnant one he had fled. He established his colonists and his descendants; and when he was sure that they would survive, he sealed himself in the last somec chamber in all the galaxy, triggered to awaken him when his world had built a new civilization.

But using somec to disturb and manipulate the natural course of life cultivated dangers of its own

Worthing slept for fifteen thousand years.

And when he awoke from his frozen slumber, it was to a future he had never dreamed of.

Corrupt forces had emerged and a strange form of mind reading had been carried down to other generations.

In a profound tale that spans thousands of years and barren lands, Jason tries to reconcile the past with the present, amidst those who lost their memories entirely and dreams that bring strange, disturbing visions of the past.

Reflecting on the arrival and purpose of pain and sorrow, The Worthing Chronicle is a gripping science fiction tale that considers communal experiences of joy emerging from suffering in deconstructed worlds.

Praise for Orson Scott Cards Enders Game:

A major sf novel by any reasonable standards. Booklist

Every volume of the Ender saga...comprises some of the most hauntingly brilliant writing of the decade Interzone

knocks you sideways Sunday Express

Almost impossible to put down LOCUS

Orson Scott Card is the bestselling author best known for the classic Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and other novels in the Ender universe. Most recently, he was awarded the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in Young Adult literature, from the American Library Association. Card has written sixty-one books, assorted plays, comics, and essays and newspaper columns. His work has won multiple awards, including back-to-back wins of the Hugo and the Nebula Awards-the only author to have done so in consecutive years. His titles have also landed on 'best of' lists and been adopted by cities, universities and libraries for reading programs. The Ender novels have inspired a Marvel Comics series, a forthcoming video game from Chair Entertainment, and pre-production on a film version. A highly anticipated The Authorized Ender Companion, written by Jake Black, is also forthcoming.Card offers writing workshops from time to time and occasionally teaches writing and literature at universities.Orson Scott Card currently lives with his family in Greensboro, NC.

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About the Author

Orson Scott Card is a winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards for short fiction and novels. His novel, Enders Game, is considered one of the classics of the genre and is currently being developed for film. Along with subsequent novels in the Enders series (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and Enders Shadow), Card is also the author of the contemporary novels Lost Boys, Treasure Box, Homebody; The Homecoming Saga, including The Memory of Earth, The Call of Earth, The Ships of Earth, Earthfall, and Earthborn; an alternate history novel, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus; and the American fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker: Seventh Son, Red Prophet, Prentice Alvin, Alvin Journeyman, and Heartfire.

A respected playwright, Card has seen a dozen of his plays produced in regional theater. He has also taught writing courses at several universities and workshops, including, most recently, a novel-writing course at Pepperdine.

Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife and five children.