Homecoming Saga · Book 4

Earthfall

by Orson Scott Card

Published
1 January 1995
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9780613176330
Type
novel

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About this book

Earthfall, published in 1995 at 384 pages, brings Nafai's family to the transformed Earth their voyage was aimed at, as the saga moves into its final act.

Its place in Homecoming Saga

Earthfall is book 4 in the Homecoming Saga series. It follows The Ships of Earth. It is followed by Earthborn. See the full Homecoming Saga reading order.

Forty million years in the future, the last remnants of humanity live on the planet Harmony, kept deliberately primitive and pre-industrial by Oversoul, an ancient orbiting computer originally programmed to prevent the kind of technological self-destruction that drove humans off Earth in the first place. When Oversoul's degrading circuits threaten to fail and release Harmony's people into unrestrained technological development, it recruits the family of Nafai to journey back to a mythic, half-remembered Earth and…

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