The Memory of Earth: Homecoming: Volume 1

Orson Scott Card

Jan 1993 · Homecoming Saga Book 1 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

The first volume in the Homecoming saga from bestselling author Orson Scott Card, The Memory of Earth

High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet--to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves.

The Oversoul has done its job well. There is no war on Harmony. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There is no technology that could lead to weapons of war. By control of the data banks, and subtle interference in the very thoughts of the people, the artificial intelligence has fulfilled its mission.

But now there is a problem. In orbit, the Oversoul realizes that it has lost access to some of its memory banks, and some of its power systems are failing. And on the planet, men are beginning to think about power, wealth, and conquest.

Homecoming series
The Memory of Earth
The Call of Earth
The Ships of Earth
Earthfall
Earthborn

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Ratings and reviews

I wrote Mr. Card that i wanted to see more of it, he wrote back that he basically did expand it a great deal. He hadn't planned this book series to stay there that long. Genius ideas. The series later skirts further into Mormon allegory than i would prefer personally, but it starts brilliantly!

The series gets really, really boring. The first few Earth books we OK, but eventually all of the characters are long gone along with my interest in the series.

Read it as a teen and liked it enough to read most of the sequels too. One of the first books that lead me into a love of science fiction novels.

About the author

Born in Richland, Washington in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for Ender's Game and then for the sequel Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina.