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I am a big fan or Orson Scott Card, this is not his strongest work. This is a compilation of stories clearly written over a long period of time that loosely connect. The idea of a genetic superpower doing good while doing bad was great, unfortunately that was a small slice of the overall story line. He also could have explored the consequences of Some sleeping better - never understood why being awake 1 day every 5 years would be the highest aspiration of a race of people.


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The Worthing Saga Orson Scott Card 9780812533316 Books Reviews

Orson Scott Card is perhaps the greatest living science-fiction writer still writing. This book is prime evidence.
The "saga" weaves together two series of short stories that Card developed, in parallel and in tandem, over serveral years and in several incarnations. The core series concerns an interstellar human empire (loosely modeled, as Card freely acknowledges, after the First Galactic Empire in Asimov's "Foundation" series) that revolves around the drug "somec," which lets one live life a few years or a year or a day at a time, skipping over the intervening years. (The "somec" stories were originally published in earlier collections, "Capitol" and "Hot Sleep.") One's economic and social status depends on one's level of somec, which determines how quickly or slowly one moves through not only life, but history. The first "somec" story, "Skipping Stones," sets the scene two boyhood friends take two paths, one becoming an artist who lives out his life in ordinary time, the other an entrepreneur who spaces out his life for as long as he can afford. The artist pictures himself immersed in life "I like to swim. It gets me wet. It wears me out." But his wealthy friend dips into the world only from time to time, and the world moves on without him; when he dips back into the world, it is for him as if only a moment has passed since he last landed there, but his friend has been living a full life and the world has been living a whole history between his awakenings.
The other series concerns the "Forest of Waters," home of a community exiled from the stagnating somec-driven universe, guided at first by a godlike ancestor with paranormal psychic powers. While the somec stories are subtle parables, these other stories are much more direct inquiries into pain, suffering, and their role not only in human society but in a universe watched over by an aware deity.
Card describes this book as "the most structurally complex yet thematically unified of my works of fiction." The "thematic unity" that weaves together all the book's multifaceted stories is indeed masterful, easily surpassing Card's "The Folk of the Fringe," a masterpiece in its own right. "The Worthing Saga" is a compelling read, one that will grip your imagination and intellect long after you have finished it. I reread it every few years, and enjoy it just as much with each reacquaintance.
Despite I do prefer novels over short stories, the saga is a good combination. The first part is a short novel, about the adulthood initiation of a boy to whom is imposed the work of writing the real history of the Universe and the return of pain to it. Only Orson Scott card can describe so vividly this passagge to maturity. Then a bunch of short stories revisiting the main facts of the novel. As I said, a good combination
Loved it! How could I have missed this? Ok, so first off is a long story, then multiple short stories that cover the same people or the side characters that were mentioned in the main story, but you didn't get a lot of background on them. Great story, really interesting, funky twist.

My one complaint - He originally wrote this as many small stories and one largish story that wasn't published, then some were published, then he went back years later and re-edited, made changes to fix problems, and published this way. So, some of the short stories don't quite match up with what you are told about those characters in the long story. Not the end of the world, but one of those little things that annoys and picks at the back of the brain.
Another great read from Orson Scott Card. The book contains a novel and a bunch of short stories that center on different elements of the novel, but are a great read on their own.

The Saga in Worthing saga stands for the time-span that the story covers. The bigger story begins on the planet Capital (very similar to Asimov's Trantor) and with a man named Abner Doon who wants to destroy it so that to force human expansion and evolution (again - similar to Harri Seldon and Foundation). A boy named Jason Worthing has telepathic powers and is taken-in by Abner Doon.

The Worthing Chronicle (which is the novel within this book) tells a story of a distant planet where nobody knew any pain or suffering. Then came a Day of Pain when people experienced pain, sorrow and reality that we know today. Shortly after came a man and a woman (man is Jason Worthing) who ask a village boy to write down their story. And thus starts the Worthing Chronicle.

Saga spans several planets and thousands of years, introducing ideas such as human evolution, political stability, telepathy and other mental abilities. Card is a master storyteller and succeeds in telling a story within a story within a story.

Another cool concept here is somec, a drug that allows people to sleep for years (or centuries) only waking occasionally, thus allowing one to exists for centuries in real time (ex one can sleep for a year and wake for a week, expanding their lifetime 50 times, but they are only living the same lifespan as a normal person). This allows author to have main characters skip centuries and generations.

Great read all around and the inclusion of short stories is a nice bonus. "Skipping Stones" in particular is a beautiful and sad story that is not to be missed.
I am a big fan or Orson Scott Card, this is not his strongest work. This is a compilation of stories clearly written over a long period of time that loosely connect. The idea of a genetic superpower doing good while doing bad was great, unfortunately that was a small slice of the overall story line. He also could have explored the consequences of Some sleeping better - never understood why being awake 1 day every 5 years would be the highest aspiration of a race of people.