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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 Elemak. But in all the long years of searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of Earth, the central intelligence that alone can repair the Oversoul's damaged programming. More information on this book and others can be found on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk From Publishers Weekly This concluding volume of the Homecoming series (Earthfall, et al.) doesn't live up to the earlier books, which were notable for their subtlety in developing essentially religious themes through focused plotting and sensitive characterization. Here, the plot relies on familiar Judeo-Christian archetypes, tailored to examine discrimination, theocracy and the relationship to

Who reads Earthborn?

Author

Card, Orson Scott

Publisher

Orbit

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781857239829

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.64 / 5 (136 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14