About the Book
A collection of The Worthing Chronicle (1983) and nine related stories. Six of them are from short story collection Capitol (1979).
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.
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.
