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The Worthing Series
The Worthing series is a series of science fiction works by American writer Orson Scott Card. It consists of two anthologies and two novels. The first three books in this series are currently out of print. Books in the series *'' Capitol'' (1979) *''Hot Sleep'' (1979) * ''The Worthing Chronicle'' (1983) - revised edition of ''Hot Sleep'' * '' The Worthing Saga'' (1990; includes ''The Worthing Chronicle'' and selected stories from ''Capitol'') See also *List of works by Orson Scott Card The Orson Scott Card bibliography contains a list of works published by Orson Scott Card. Ender's Game The Tales of Alvin Maker The Homecoming Saga Women of Genesis Pastwatch series Mithermages series Mayflower ''Mayflower ... * Orson Scott Card External links The official Orson Scott Card website {{DEFAULTSORT:Worthing series, The Book series introduced in 1979 Novels by Orson Scott Card Science fiction book series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. He is the first and (as of 2022) only person to win both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for both his novel ''Ender's Game'' (1985) and its sequel ''Speaker for the Dead'' (1986). A feature film adaptation of ''Ender's Game'', which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series ''The Tales of Alvin Maker'' (1987–2003). Card's works were influenced by classic literature, popular fantasy, and science fiction; he often uses tropes from genre fiction. His background as a screenwriter has helped Card make his works accessible. Card's early fiction is original but contains graphic violence. His fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitol (collection)
''Capitol'' (1979) was Orson Scott Card's second published book, and first foray into science fiction. This collection of eleven short stories set in the Worthing series is no longer in print. However six of the stories have been reprinted in ''The Worthing Saga'' (1990) and one of them in ''Maps in a Mirror'' (1990). Contents The short stories in this book are: * " A Sleep and a Forgetting" * " A Thousand Deaths" - Reprinted in ''Maps in a Mirror'' * "Skipping Stones" - Reprinted in ''The Worthing Saga'' * " Second Chance" - Reprinted in ''The Worthing Saga'' * " Breaking the Game" - Reprinted in ''The Worthing Saga'' * "Lifeloop" - Reprinted in ''The Worthing Saga'' * " Burning" * "And What Will We Do Tomorrow?" - Reprinted in ''The Worthing Saga'' * "Killing Children" - Reprinted in ''The Worthing Saga'' * "When No One Remembers His Name, Does God Retire?" * "The Stars That Blink" Related works *''Hot Sleep'' *''The Worthing Chronicle'' *''The Worthing Saga'' See also *L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Sleep
''Hot Sleep: The Worthing Chronicle'' (1979) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, part of his the Worthing series. Card's novel ''The Worthing Chronicle'' (1983) covers some of the same ground. ''Hot Sleep'' was Card's first novel-length published science fiction story. ''A Planet Called Treason'' followed. The short story collection ''Capitol'' was published earlier that year. Plot summary The book follows Jason Worthing, also known as Jazz, who is a boy growing up on Capitol, the capital planet of the Empire. Jas has "the swipe", which is a genetic trait that allows for telepathy. The swipe is feared in the Empire, so those who possess it are executed. After being found out as a swipe, Jas tries to escape, which leads to his capture by Abner Doon, who helps him rise to prominence as a space pilot. Eventually, Abner sends Jason away as the head of a colony so that the swipe would become more widespread, but when his ship reaches the planet he is attac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Worthing Chronicle
''The Worthing Chronicle'' (1983) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, part of The Worthing series. This book by itself is out of print having been published along with nine short stories in the collection ''The Worthing Saga'' (1990). Plot summary Jason Worthing and one of his descendants, Justice, go to a small village on a backward world to get a boy named Lared to write a book for them. This book is about why Abner Doon destroyed the empire and the planet Capitol and why Jason's descendants destroyed the planet Worthing. It also explains why people all over the settled part of the galaxy are no longer being protected by "God" from pain and hardship. ''The Worthing Chronicle'' is an expansion of Card's first novel, ''Hot Sleep''. Related Works *''Capitol'' *''Hot Sleep'' *''The Worthing Saga'' See also *List of works by Orson Scott Card *Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Worthing Saga
''The Worthing Saga'' (1990) is a science fiction book by American writer Orson Scott Card, set in the Worthing series. It is made up of the novel ''The Worthing Chronicle'' (1982) and nine related stories. Six of the stories are from Card's short story collection ''Capitol'' (1979) and the other three are early works, two of them previously unpublished. Story list The stories in this book are: *''The Worthing Chronicle'' (1982) - novel *''Tales of Capitol'' (1979) **"Skipping Stones" (1979) **"Second Chance" (1979) **"Lifeloop" (1979) **"Breaking the Game" (1979) **"Killing Children" (1979) **"And What Will We Do Tomorrow?" (1979) *''Tales from the Forest of Waters'' **"Worthing Farm" (1990) - previously unpublished **"Worthing Inn" (1990) - previously unpublished **"The Tinker" (1980) - first published in ''Eternity SF'' Character list ''Ordered from oldest to youngest by non-relative age'' * Mother * Herman Nuber * Abner Doon * Jason Worthing * Justice * Lared See also *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Works By Orson Scott Card
The Orson Scott Card bibliography contains a list of works published by Orson Scott Card. Ender's Game The Tales of Alvin Maker The Homecoming Saga Women of Genesis Pastwatch series Mithermages series Mayflower ''Mayflower'' was a projected trilogy begun in 1994 by Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H. Kidd, but only one book in the trilogy was published. Kidd died in 2015. The Worthing series The Empire series Pathfinder series Laddertop series Side Step series Micropowers series Standalone novels Short story collections Anthologies edited by Card Other works Plays Non-fiction works Works based on other media Books on writing Columns Other projects Pen names Over the years Orson Scott Card used at least seven pseudonyms. According to Card he used a pseudonym for "Gert Fram" because he already had three other works appearing in the same issue. He used the penname Byron Walley again in various other publications for LDS magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Series Introduced In 1979
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Orson Scott Card
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
