Earthborn by Orson Scott Card - ISBN: 9781857239829
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A sleeping woman holds Earth’s fate, searching for a lost keeper.

Earthborn

Homecoming Series: Book 5

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    4 August 2000

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Summary

High above the Earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundreds of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth.

She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly - there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from those who followed Nafai or Elema…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781857239829
ISBN-10:1857239822
Author:Orson Scott Card
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Orbit
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:4 August 2000
Weight:259g
Dimensions:178mm x 108mm
Series:Homecoming
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Critics Review

Orson Scott Card’s bestselling Ender’s Game is one of the most gripping, exciting science fiction novels of recent times - SFX

Haunting, compulsive, urgently readable…Story-telling genius - INTERZONE

Certain to be one of the most sought-after books of the year - LOCUS

SF takes old myths and genetically modified them for today’s world, from George Lucas doing knight-saves-fair-lady in space to Star Trek’s Wagon Train to the Stars. Orson Scott Card’s five-volume Homecoming series goes one step further, reshaping some of - Card’s Mormon beliefs are more strongly represented in this book than in some of his others. Earthborn is essentially a story about Free Will, the rea

About The Author

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is the award-winning author of the Ender saga, the Alvin Maker series and the Homecoming series. He lives with his wife and three children in the US.

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