This is a very good story about the settling of a planet and how they struggled to survive, and integrate into the galaxy. Its mostly told from the perspective of long after the original settlement, and after a period of some loss of technology. ( )

It's hard to believe that this is a 70's scifi! I even double-checked to make sure it really was written in the 70s.

The story comes ahead of the scifi, the characters feel real, and the author makes you care what happens. There's an underlying sense of injustice running throughout that the author makes us want to correct. I wanted the story to go faster - not to get through it but because I wanted to know what happened before it actually did. I ended up not skipping to the finish to find out, but it was a struggle to restrain myself. ( )

Orson Scott Card's answer to the question: "Why does God allow pain?" One of his 5 best books. ( )

This is a wonderful book. The Worthing Saga goes beyond science fiction as we think of it—it’s a look at how humans interact with technology and with each other. I loved it

The format of this book is a little different. The first half is a stand-alone novel, The Worthing Chronicle. There are two sections of short stories, set in two different time periods covered by the novel. Many of the stories have been incorporated, as legends or remembrances, into the body of the main story as well.

It’s the measured look at a man’s life, thoughtful and serious, with sadness and hard choices. This is not a fun sci-fi book, with space cowboys and cool robots. (As a side note, the back cover description on my copy of this book is entirely wrong. Robots? Embryos? Those aren’t even in the book. What book did they take the description from?) But it’s an interesting book that will draw you in. It is also a great read, and I finished it quickly, drawn into the characters lives and eager to find out the end.

I highly recommend this book, not just to science fiction fans, but to anyone who likes to be challenged by what they read.

http://archthinking.blogspot.com/2009... ( )

A novel about a man called Worthing. Nothing to do with the resort town on the south coast of England.