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In The Worthing Chronicle, Orson Scott Card introduces Jason Worthing, a telepathic ark captain tasked with repopulating the galaxy. Seeking to avoid the stagnation of the world he left, Worthing establishes a new colony and, confident in its future, locks himself away in a secret βsomecβ chamber, to be awakened only after humanity rebuilds on this world. After fifteen thousand years, he awakes to encounter a society he could never have imagined.
First publish date: 1983
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Orson Scott Card
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