Homecoming Saga · Book 2

The Call of Earth

by Orson Scott Card

Published
1 January 1993
Pages
332
ISBN-13
9780785752363
Type
novel

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About this book

The Call of Earth, published in 1993 at 332 pages, continues Nafai's family through Harmony's court intrigues as Oversoul's degrading circuits push them closer to the journey back to Earth.

Its place in Homecoming Saga

The Call of Earth is book 2 in the Homecoming Saga series. It follows The Memory of Earth. It is followed by The Ships of Earth. 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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